I came across this little video while looking up things on the Juan Pablo Torres post last week, it’s a pretty awesome in studio footage of Cuba’s Orchestra Los Van Van or simply Los Van Van in studio with the band’s bassist/producer, Juan Formell and Mr. Juan P. Torres at the mixing board recording and [...]
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*** “Pan Caliente” “Que Sabroso Majarete“ “Cajon Opus 1“ Juan Pablo Torres is one of Cuba’s originals. Trombone player, composer, arranger, producer, a complete artist in every sense of the word, he began his career with the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna and later produced for Cuba’s mighty EGREM label. He and his contemporaries enjoyed [...]
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Los Papines “Para Que Niegas” *** In the 60′s and 70′s Los Papines were prime ambassadors of the rumba and guaguanco rhythms in their native Cuba and the rest of the world; they were among of the first acts to popularize Afro-Cuban rhythms to as far places as Japan. Fronted by the Abreu brothers Ricardo, [...]
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Hello everyone, we’re happy to bring you another little set of tunes for you listening enjoyment, the last couple of weeks have been a little inconsistent on the blog, partly due to some vacations on both of our parts, but the upside to that is that our travels have yielded some tasty fresh souvenirs, thats [...]
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Watch out! Sonorama brings you its seventh podcast! This week we’ve let the week’s current events dictate our theme for this week; given that May 1st just passed, along with Cinco de mayo, as well as the ongoing situation occurring in Arizona, we’ve dug up some socially conscious artists from the around the globe and [...]
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