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Bamboleo @ HMV Forum | London 18 July
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:00 +0100Bamboleo, Cuba's most popular band right now, will be bringing their Salsa, Timba and Reggaeton sound to The Forum, Kentish Town, London on Saturday 18 July. Direct from Havana - the show is their long awaited UK debut. A trio of London's top Cuban Music DJs, Javier La Rosa, Dr Jim and DJ Rich will be sharing the dj line-up on the night and playing for the dancers until 2am. Bamboleate mami !! * Bamboleo :Like sweet rum and smooth cigars, Bamboleo is another one of those fine Cuban exports that, once you get a taste of it, one sampling just won't be enough. The 14-member timba group is one hot number, from its music and choreography to its well-dressed singers and musicians. Lazaro Valdes leads the band, and he also plays the piano, arranges, composes, and writes songs. A Havana native, he was enrolled in the Alejandro Garcia Caturla Academy during the 1970s. He established Bamboleo after spending time performing with such artists as Pachito Alonso, Bobby Carcasses, and Hector Tellez. He culled musicians from the cream of the crop, incorporating into his new troupe many who had trained at Havana's National School of the Arts. He added some spark with vocalist Haila Mompie, who in turn recruited vocalist Vannia Borges. Another Havana native, Borges became a music student when she was five years old, and first sang professionally with an all-woman outfit known as D'capo in the early '90s. Four years later, she moved on to Pachito Alonso y su Kini Kini, leaving in 1997 to add her talents to Bamboleo. Guantanamo native Yordamis Megret came to the group in 1998, a year after Mompie left. She started her musical training when she was 10 years old and took up the guitar. Like Borges, she, too, is an alumna of the National School of Arts. Upon graduation, she started singing professionally with Ricacha. Before joining Bamboleo, Megret sang for Jose Luis Cortes' salsa ensemble, PG. Bamboleo first started touring outside of Cuba in 1996, the same year the group debuted with Te Gusto o Te Caigo Bien. The group has performed in major U.S. cities, from Chicago to Miami, and New York to Los Angeles. After the release of Yo No Me Parezco A Nadie and Ya No Hace Falta, the group toured the world, with stops in Europe, the U.S., and Japan, as well as China's Heineken 2000 World Music Festival. Bamboleo also contributed to the Temptations' Grammy-winning Ear-Resistable. In addition, the ensemble has been featured on the MTV program Road Rules, and has worked with artists such as James Brown, Femi Kuti, and George Benson. ~ Linda Seida, All Music Source: Spotify Amazon.co.uk Widgets ... (Read complete news)
Cuban Film Festival @ Barbican July 3-9 in London
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:14:00 +0100Cuban fever hits London this summer as Havana Cultura supports the Cine Cuba Film Festival at the Barbican Centre. Havana Cultura is a cultural initiative developed by Havana Club. It aims at increasing the visibility of emerging Cuban artists. The summer event forms part of this year’s Cuba50 programme, which celebrates Cuban culture and also marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Returning for the second year and fifty years on from the revolution, the Barbican’s Cine Cuba Festival combines contemporary cinematic perspectives on Cuban life and classics from the foremost filmmakers of the post-revolutionary era. Cine Cuba will feature some of the most acclaimed Cuban actors and directors, including the re-release of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s groundbreaking introduction of gay themes into Cuban cinema, Strawberry and Chocolate. You can catch this landmark film every night of the Festival. Other highlights include films from Cuba’s leading contemporary filmmaker Pavel Giroud, the ‘enfant terrible’ of post-revolutionary cinema Humberto Solás and the latest releases from Havana; Personal Belongings, Omertà and The Horn of Plenty. Listing Information: Opening Gala Fri 3 July, 7.30pm Personal Belongings An intimate take on contemporary Cuban dilemmas about the forsaking of homeland and personal relationships for a new life elsewhere. Cuba 2008 Dir. Alejandro Brugués 95 min Fri 3 – Thu 9 July, 8.45pm Strawberry and Chocolate 18 Winner of a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the first film with an openly gay character to come from Cuba, Cuba 1993 Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 110 min. Sat 4 July, 4.30pm Suite Havana PG* A documentary without interviews, presents the Cuba of today: complex, intimate and controversial. Cuba 2003 Dir. Fernando Pérez 84 min. Sat 4 July, 6.30pm The Horn of Plenty (El Cuerno de la Abundancia) # This screwball comedy is inspired by real events which saw some 25,000 Cubans maintain they were heirs to a multi-million pound fortune held in a British bank. Cuba 2008 Dir. Juan Carlos Tabio 90 min. Sun 5 July, 2.30pm Cecilia18 Nominated for the Palme D’Or at Cannes on its release, this sumptuous adaptation of the popular 19th Cuban novel by Cirillo Villaverde, Cuba 1982 Dir. Humberto Solás Sun 5 July, 5pm Titón de la Habana a Guantanamera PG* An affectionate look at the life and work of the definitive voice of post-revolutionary Cuban cinema Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba 2008 Dir. Mirta Ibarra 76 min. Sun 5 July, 6.30pm Guantanamera 15 Alea revisited satire in this his last film, Both a biting critique and romantic comedy. Cuba 1995 Dir. Tomás Gutierréz Alea 101min Mon 6 Jul, 6.30pm Documentary Showcase # Documentaries exploring Cuba today.The screening will be introduced by Holly Aylett, award-winning documentary filmmaker, university lecturer, writer and founding editor and director of Vertigo magazine. Tue 7 July, 6.30pm Lucía 18* This witty film follows the lives and loves of three women called Lucía, living at different points in time during the crucial periods of Cuban history. Cuba 2006 Dir. Humberto Solás 110 min. Wed 8 July, 6.30pm Up to a Certain Point (Hasta Cierta Punto) # Documentary filmmaker Oscar (Oscar Alvarez) is researching machismo in Cuba. Cuba 1984 Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 68 min. Thu 9 July, 6.30pm Omertà 12* Following the success of his first feature La Edad de la Peseta Pavel Giroud... (Read complete news)
Barbican – Cine Cuba: 50 Years of Revolution in Film
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:10:00 +0100Cuban fever hits London this summer as Havana Cultura supports the Cine Cuba Film Festival at the Barbican Centre. Havana Cultura is a cultural initiative developed by Havana Club. It aims at increasing the visibility of emerging Cuban artists. The summer event forms part of this year¹s Cuba50 programme, which celebrates Cuban culture and also [...]... (Read complete news)
Copacabana - Barry Manilow
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:49:00 +0100It was Barry Manilow's birthday last June 17 and I was browsing some of my friends' photos online and there was one picture of Barry Manilow from his recent concert in Las Vegas. I just can't help but blog about another Barry Manilow classic which is one of the favorites. And this is the one! I particularly liked the song because of its upbeat music. I remember singing this song with the "multiplex tape" since videokes were soon to be invented. Remember playing a cassette tape on a "karaoke" player and when a song is finished, you have to push the reqind button and hope it would stop at the precise point where the song would begin. I'm sure everyone knows what I am talking about. All the hassles of pushing the play button and when one side is up, one would push eject, reverse the tape, insert it back to the panel then push play. And then of course, auto-reverse was invented but still, a maximum of 10 songs could only be played by the cassette player. Although I used the multiplex tape and read the lyrics on a separate notebook, I was enticed by this song because as if I was watching it in movie. The lyrics of the song is so descriptive. It was colorful with the use of yellow, my all time favorite color. The action in the song was likewise vivid and it was complete story. Although I pitied "Lola" because of what happened. Oh well, those... (Read complete news)
Havana Cultura: Kumar
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:57:00 +0100I blogged last week about Havana Cultura, a celebration of Cuban culture that hits London's Barbican in the coming week. If you haven't bought tickets for some of the musical events yet maybe you should. After the show on Saturday night (the first of the links above), rap artist Kumar will be performing on the club [...]... (Read complete news)
Havana Cultura: Cuban music festival
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:26:00 +0100I've learned - through a connection at the London Bloggers Meetup - about an upcoming series of events at London's Barbican that sound pretty exciting. Havana Cultura is a programme of music, film, dance, and more that celebrates Cuban artists. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, and there are events happening all [...]... (Read complete news)
Los Papines Co-founder Ricardo Abreus Passes Away in Havana
Fri, 29 May 2009 15:14:00 +0100Cuban musician Ricardo Abreus, cofounder in 1959 of Los Papines, passed away last Tuesday from a stroke at age 75 in Havana. Ricardo began his career at a very early age and became popular with his group Papín y sus Rumberos performing at the Tropicana Cabaret and other venues. Following, he founded Los Papines with three of his brothers. The popular vocal and percussion quartet debuted at the Salon Parisién of the Hotel National in a production directed by Amaury Pérez. They went on to develop a repertoire of Afro-Cuban songs, especially rumba, marked by a mastery of percussion, for which... (Read complete news)
The Havana Boys - Spanish Fly [FLICKER017]
Sun, 24 May 2009 23:48:00 +0100Artist: The Havana Boys Title: Spanish Fly Label: Flicker Rhythm Records Cat#: FLICKER017 Date: May-2009 Source: Web Quality: 320 Kbps / Full Stereo Hotfile 1. The Havana Boys - Spanish Fly 2. The Havana Boys - Monday Is My My Day... (Read complete news)
Buena Vista Social Club on Tour
Sun, 17 May 2009 13:07:00 +0100Following the last sell out tour, this fantastic 13 piece band from Havana returns to the UK. Featuring legends of Cuba music and music from the world circuit's acclaimed Cuban recordings, the band will take you to Havana, Cuba repeating the hits that are currently being played there. This band includes Jesus 'Aguaje' Ramos, [...]... (Read complete news)
