by Raymond » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:20 pm
Interesting what SimonB is listening to....I went through that face about five years ago when Los Van Van came out with Llego Van Van which is their first full timba sound try...It is a great album.....Isaac Delgado..is one of my favorite performers...Musically, I think Con Ganas, with Girardo Piloto, Otra Nota, the one he recorded in NY with Isidro Infante for RMM Records with a timba feel to it and La Formula, which is Isaac's perhaps best album after Con Ganas are all great album..Check "La Formula" (or El Malecon...the album was named La Formula for ouside Cuba)....Issac is an interesting case because he has played with his sound....The latest offering by Isaac is going back to the "regular salsa" sound, with a experimenting in other rythms, that is normal for us outside of Cuba but is or was not the norm in Cuba...
When I got to that face of "timba" I had to get "Echale Limon" which is NG Banda's best album and the one critics say is the beginning of timba.....Have to check that album.... Klimax???? I have been trying to get some of those albums but are hard to get...I've heard they are great....
Anyway, what I am listening to.....new salsa.....Sonora Poncena "Back to the Road", Puertorrican Power, "Salsa Another Day", Gilberto Santarrosa "Autentico", Tito Nieves "Fabricando Fantasias", Jimmy Bosch "El Avion de la Salsa", Ricky Gonzalez "Oasis", Jose Alberto El Canario "Now and Then".... Just bought "Frankie Negron's Amanecer Contigo with Sergio George to continue to "monitor" the new SG sound that is trying to go "traditional", with less effects, etc.....
Latin jazz....checking Endel Duenos, Ralph Irrizary, Paoli Mejia and Tito de Gracia...Always have them around just in case...
The interesting side of this is that "romantic salsa" is trying to go back to traditional sounds from the 70s which is something record companies in the salsa genre are going back to...
Last but not least...checking some records given to me, by a member of this forum, in "zouk" and compas....interesting stuff....
Saludos!