Putumayo Presents - Afro-Latin Party
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Artist: Putumayo PresentsEdition: Music CD
Audio: Spanish (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Music Label: Putumayo World Music
Product features:
- VARIOS INTERPRETES AFRO - LATIN PARTY
- Betece - Africando
- Ritmo Con Ache - Jose Mangual Jr.
- Cuentame Que Te Paso - Pepe & The Bottle Blondes
- Babalu - Ska Cubano
- Mandali - Africando
- Morenita - Cubismo
- Demal - Africando
- Cogele El Gusto - Chico Alvarez
- La Grev' Bare Mwen - Ronald Rubinel's Salsa Kolor
- Samba Luku Samba - Ricardo Lemvo
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Free Music Review: Great Exercise - DANCE - Puts me in a good mood
Hit: 5 Stars
I LOVE this CD. I play it about every day, especially when I am working in the kitchen, cooking & cleaning or doing housework. It has a dance beat that you can't help but start shaking your hips. It is great exercise to dance to it. I can feel stomache muscles that I have not felt in years. Maybe it will help me to lose weight? I also bought a beginners Salsa DVD I like to dance to. My husband and kids join in to dancing around the house, too. If I am feeling bad, this music peps me up. Highly recommend.
Afro-Latin Party Poster
Croatian salsa, Cuban ska, and Oregonian mambo!?!? These are three of the unlikely gems listeners will find on Afro-Latin Party. What started out as an effort to provide the perfect soundtrack to a Latin dance party became a tribute to the global appreciation and realization of the musical ricochet between Cuba and Africa.Central to the Afro-Latin phenomenon is Africando, who provide three songs on Afro-Latin Party, each with a different African lead singer. In the 1960s and 1970s, the biggest names in African music?including such heavyweights as Youssou N?Dour and Salif Keita?were performing Latin music, thanks to recordings that came over from abroad. Cultural exchange between Cuba and the socialist governments in Mali and other parts of West Africa was a regular phenomenon. Performers like the Fania All Stars and Celia Cruz toured Africa and became musical icons.
In 1992, legendary Africando founders Ibrahim Sylla and Boncana Maïga traveled to New York to record with top local salsa musicians, many who were taken by surprise by these Africans performing and their phonetically learned Spanish lyrics. Interestingly, many of the band members on the three Africando tracks here, also play on other tracks on Afro-Latin Party.
There's plenty of food for thought in Putumayo's delicious new Afro-Latin Party. Like the previous Putumayo compilations Afro-Latino and From Congo to Cuba, the 10 tracks here document the fascinating musical marriage between Africa and Cuba that has seen the original African rhythms brought to Cuba by slaves evolve and migrate back east across the ocean to influence a new generation of African music (and in the process produce offspring everywhere from Croatia to Portland, Oregon). But that almost implies that the disc is of interest to musicologists only, when quite the opposite is true. Afro-Latin Party is anchored by three tracks from Africando, the Cuban supergroup that records with different African lead singers, and their seamless blend of African and Carribbean spices nicely sets the tone for the disc. With Pepe and the Bottle Blondes' wry take on classic cha-cha, "Cuentame Que Te Paso" (featuring a former lead singer for Pink Martini) rubbing shoulders with classic-style salsa from Croatia's Cubismo ("Morenita") and Puerto Rico's Jose Mangual Jr. (the white-hot "Ritmo Con Ache"), the disc is an excellent primer on the global reach of salsa music, but more importantly one that sounds best blasting out of speakers that aren't too far from the dance floor. --Ezra Gale
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