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THE ROUGH GUIDE TO LATIN DANCE

Latin American is a region defined by years of change and social upheaval. Today, as ever, dance is a potent identifier and method of cultural expression. This Rough Guide invites you to take to your tango, roll out your rumba and set your salsa sizzling with the hottest sounds from the likes of Argentinean duo Mas Alla, Martinican melody-maker Dede Saint-Prix and Brazilian sambista Ruivao.

Kicking off the album with a swinging salsa, Virginia-based experimenters Bio Ritmo lay down a winding keys riff layered atop with the blasts of a hearty horn section and sweetly delivered male vocals. A few tracks in we are treated to ‘Oran Oran’ by Maurice El Medioni and Roberto Rodriguez. El Medioni hails from Algeria and recycles his varying influences (from American boogie-woogie to rai) delicately and dextrously on the piano. Here El Medioni is accompanied by Cuban percussionist Rodriguez and together the pair create a distinct Afro-Latin groove.

Colombiafrica reverberate their champeta straight from the streets of Colombia. A powder-keg of Colombian rhythms brewed together with Congolese soukous, Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian Afro-beat – this band offer a riotous take on contemporary street dance. Staying in Colombia but striking back through the decades, the vintage track ‘Ocho Dias’ by Los Corraleros De Majagual is a slinky throw-back to cumbia done big-band style. Harmonized horns call and respond to a caramel-smooth choir and lead male voice.

‘A Zero Por Hora’ is contributed by Brazilian singer Vitor Ramil. Teaming up with Rio-born Marcos Suzano, the pair present their hope for the future of samba; acoustic instruments riffing on traditional dance figures nestle alongside textural ambient electronics.

Watching Latin dance is like watching a living history lesson played out, every stamp and flounce encapsulating centuries of change in the region. From the circle dances of the Taino Indians, to European set-dances introduced by Columbus and his compadres, via complicated African cross-rhythms introduced during the dreaded slave trade, not forgetting jubilant Creole carnivals and contemporary urban street styles – dance is Latin Americas living history. Celebrate the legacy with this unique Rough Guide to Latin Dance.

Sierra Maestra: Santa Isabel De Las Lajas (taken from The Rough Guide To Latin Dance)

From the Lp, Los Satelites - Yerbabuena, discos fuentes.

Los Satelites - No me quejo

Sono Rhizmo' - Soledad

La Vaca Nueva

Billo's Caracas Boys - Casi te muerto

From the Lp Super Grupo Colombia - La mona  (1983-eco)

Super Grupo Colombia - La mona

El Pholy Combo - El Porro es Hermano De La Cumbia

Orquesta Sonora Curro - Patuleco

Orlando Fortich y su Orquesta - Yolanda

"Mi Boogaloop" out now on Resense records

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MI BOOGALOOP (Resense 15)

Marvin Hamlisch & The Yomo Toro Trio - Quiero La Noche (1971)

Out on 45RPM vinyl on June 26, 2012 from Electric Cowbell and Barbes Records. These guys have a killer live show too! Check them out!

Gran Pecador

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Chico Trujillo - Gran Pecador

Nickodemus &amp; Quantic featuring Hector "Tempo" Alomar &amp; the Candela Allstars. Recorded in San Juan, Puerto Rico 2005. 

Original & Reggae Remix available on Bandcamp
https://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/mi-swing-es-tropical-by-nickodemus-quantic-ft-hector-tempo-alomar

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Mi Swing Es Tropical by Quantic & Nickodemus feat Tempo & The Candela Allstars

Bogota’s Meridian Brothers release their delightfully surreal and playful album ‘Deseperanza’ on 24th September on Soundway Records. Traditional instruments, electronics and distorted vocals are dragged through an array of influences to create a world that is as original as it is unclassifiable. 

Straddling the line between new and old, Meridian Brothers’ mischievous blend of Latin rhythms and psychedelic grooves is the creation of Eblis Álvarez, one of the key figures of the experimental music scene in Bogota. As with all of the Meridian Brother’s releases, every instrument on ‘Deseperanza’ was played and recorded by Eblis himself.

A true avant-garde guitar player and composer he also plays in Mario Galeano’s band Frente Cumbiero and was one of the 42 musicians involved in the recording of Ondatrópica, released this summer through Soundway Records.

Meridian Brothers started back in 1998 with Eblis experimenting with alternative ways of playing instruments and electronic media. Heavily influenced by Latin rock (Argentinian in particular) these early recordings were distributed by cassette on the underground music market in Bogota. It was in 1999, after joining Mario Galeano’s Ensamble Polifónico Vallenato that Eblis first became interested in the tropical music of Colombia and began working these new influences it in to the Meridian Brothers. 

Another key period is his development was his time spent in Denmark at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the DIEM (Danish Institute of Electronic Music). It was during this stage Eblis started using more sophisticated and intricate techniques in both electronics and signal processing. 

Eblis returned to Bogota in 2008, joining a burgeoning music scene with cumbia, salsa and currulao all being explored by a new generation of Colombian musicians. 2009’s "Meridian Brothers VI” goes deep into tropical sounds of the 60s and 70s in Colombia and integrates other influences such as highlife, Ethiopian music, surf and Peruvian and Colombian cumbia.

It was around this stage that Meridian Brothers made their first appearances as a live band with Damien Ponce (Percussion), Maria Valencia (clarinet, saxophone and synthesizers), Alejandro Forero (Keyboards), Cesar Quevedo (bass) and Eblis Alvarez (vocals, guitar and electronics). 

In 2011 "Meridian Brothers VII" was released. The sound of this album returns to Latin American rock influences as well as champeta experiments, jazz, cumbia and tropical. Distorted sounds, electronic changes in voice, obscure surf guitar and randomly changed sampled percussion all collide head on. Two tracks from this record were released on 7” by New York label Names You Can Trust in 2012. 

Which bring us to ‘Desesperanza’ (meaning hopelessness in English) Recorded in 2012 the album is dedicated exclusively to salsa and tropical music, twisting it through a dark and theatrical soundscape but never abandoning the traditional aesthetics. 

A real musical maverick, labelled a genius by his contemporaries in Colombia, Eblis Álvarez’s latest Meridian Brothers album finally gets a full, worldwide release. 


Meridian Brothers - Salsa Caliente (Versión Aumentada)

Edmundo Ros was born in Trinidad in December 1910..
The family moved to Caracas, Venezuela, and he became the tympanist in the Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela.
By 1937 he had moved to London to continue his classical studies, but instead became involved in popular music, forming his own five-piece Rumba Band in 1940 and making his first recording, for Parlophone in 1941.
His performances at the Bagatelle Restaurant in London attracted the Royal Family and celebrities of the day, sealing his success.
The Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, danced her first dance in public to his music. In later years he and his orchestra were often invited to play at Buckingham Palace.

In 1951 he bought the Coconut Grove and named it the Edmundo Ros Dinner and Supper Club. The band grew and was renamed Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra, selling millions of records.

During the 1950s and 1960s the Ros orchestra appeared frequently on BBC Radio, but in 1975 he disbanded the orchestra, destroying most of its arrangement sheets.
Edmundo Ros, the man credited with popularising Latin American music in the UK, has died at the age of 100 in October 2011.. 

The track El Cumbanchero has a mad beat and its bottom note is struck by a variety of Latin rhythm playes whose percussive punchers inlcude the maracas,cowbell, timbalas and bongos.The repeating melody of the brass instruments is highlighted by a flute improvisation.
This track also dating back to the 1950's has a nearly pyschedelic quality today.

El Cumbanchero by Edmundo Ros - Bongos of the South

This was a version of an Edmundo Arias song that we recorded with the Combo Barbaro in 2006 at the Heliocentrics studio in London. Can't remember this ever coming out. 

Out from the Cellar #3

La Medicine

Song: "El O'man Boogaloo (Skeewiff Remix Instrumental)
Artist: Omegaman featuring C-Major & Merenia   
Release: El O’man Boogaloo
Label: Fort Knox Recordings
Catalog #: FKX064

Out Now:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/el-oman-boogaloo/id655194680?uo=4
http://www.beatport.com/release/el-oman-boogaloo/1098703


Check out the official music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvHINmlAnw

El Oman Boogaloo (Skeewiff Remix Instrumental)

Soundway set sail for the Colombian coastal town of Cartagena for their first selection of 2011. Sourced from a period when musicians effortlessly combined the swing of cumbia with the driving bass of salsa, Cartagena! un-wraps a period of musical history seldom heard beyond the tropical coast of South America.

Compiled by Roberto Gyemant with the help of Colombian resident Will ‘Quantic’ Holland and Miles Cleret, Cartagena! focuses on the extraordinary life and career of Curro Fuentes, the youngest brother of the family responsible for the Discos Fuentes label.

Cartagena! features 19 tracks and is presented on CD and double gatefold LP, designed by Lewis Heriz. Both CD and LP include detailed liner notes and offer insights from Will Holland’s interview with the late Curro Fuentes.

Tracklist

1 Rosendo y su Banda – Me Voy Pa’La Costa
2 Puerto Rico y Su Combo – La Cumbia Del Pescador
3 Orquesta Sonora Curro – Patuleco
4 Rosendo Martínez y su Orquesta – El Alegron
5 Cantina y su Combo – Santa Marta Cumbia
6 Lucho Bermudez y su Orquesta Sabanera – Arroz Con Coco 7 Orlando Fortich y su Orquesta – Yolanda
8 Homero y su Combo Con Pacho Galan y la Sonora Curro – Oye Negra
9 Clodomiro Montes y el Super Combo Curro – Puerto Rico Zumbando
10 Los Seven Del Swing – Silencio
11 El Gran Romancito y El Super Combo Curro – Honolulu
12 Crecencio Camacho y El Super Combo Curro – Santana En Salsa
13 Clodomiro Montes y El Super Combo Curro – Traigo Salsa
14 Lalo Orozco y su Combo Sabroso – Salsa Sabrosa
15 Lucho Bermudez y su Orquesta – Fiesta De Negritos
16 Alex Acosta y su Orquesta – La Gozadera
17 Los Seven Del Swing – Celoso
18 Rufo Garrido y Su Banda – Viejos Tiempos
19 Alex Acosta y su Orquesta – Cumbia Del Monte

Vinyl Bonus track

20. Pipe Guarin y sus Sabaneros- El Corronchon-Chon 

Rosendo Martínez Y Su Orquesta - El Alegron

Homero Y Su Combo Con Pacho Galan Y La Sonora Curro - Oye Negra

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