Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Monday Musica y Mensaje : Rodrigo y Gabriela for the Sound Strike
8:40 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|Music · 1 Comment
4 Oct 2010
Martes Morning Musica : Seu Jorge Cirandar
28 Sep 2010Today’s musical pick comes to us via the new PBS Arts website . PBS Arts is part of PBS’s multi-platform initiative to reinvigorate public engagement with the arts through an exploration of performance, artistic expression, and the creative process — on-air, online, in the classroom and in every community. In this Quick Hit, Seu Jorge, who is one of my favorite artists from Brazil, performs a song named after a Portuguese dance but about Brazilian fishermen.
P.S. : If you are offended by images of fish being well fished, you may want to close your eyes and just listen to the music.
Watch the full episode. See more Sound Tracks.
Monday Musica : Rebel Diaz -”Libertad”
6:11 am By Maegan La Mala · Chile|Linking Latinos|Music · 1 Comment
20 Sep 2010During this Latino Heritage Month, we are marketed to, studied, talked about and analyzed. During this month many of our homelands, ancestral and actual celebrate their independence days but also within these countries we struggle onward seeking true freedom.
The following video comes from us gracias a Rebel Diaz. Filmed on the streets of Santiago de Chile and produced Chilean team, Artefacto Visual, the video features Villa Grimaldi, which was a concentration camp site during the Pinochet dictatorship ushered in by the United States and where two of the Rebel Diaz crew members, RodStarz and G1′s, parents were tortured.
For me, this video is what this month and every other month of the year is about.
Enjoy
Martes Musica : All I Want Is You (People’s Remix) – Rodstarz of Rebel Diaz and Baron of Red Clay
14 Sep 2010Mala would be ok with this song being dedicated to her.
Monday Musica : The Roots of Chicha 2
13 Sep 2010
Call Mala late to the party. I’ve been hearing/reading about Chicha, the music genre, not the drink, for maybe two years now without actually hearing the music or sitting down to study it in depth. Enter into my mailbox, The Roots of Chicha 2, to be released on Barbès Records on October 12 (Dia de la Hispanidad fyi).
According to the press release, my own reading and listening, Chicha is a label given not just Peruvian cumbia dating from the late 60′s into the early 80′s, but a label given to anything coming out of the “ghettos” of Lima if you will. While the U.S. has hip hop and it’s predecessors, Peru and other countries in South America had cumbia. To this day, cumbia in Latin American countries where it hasn’t been mainstreamed (exceptions would be Colombia and Mexico) is considered music of the lower class.
The Roots of Chicha 2 features 16 tracks from 11 bands. The songs were recorded between 1968 to 1981 and reflect diverse influences that have to to do with chronological time and geography. Read more…
Almodóvar On Broadway
11:16 am By BiancaLaureano · Arts|Movies|Music|New York City · 2 Comments
30 Aug 2010
Pedro Almodóvar’s film Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown has now become a Broadway musical with tickets on sale today at 10am. Beginning October 2, the press release announces the cast and states:
Now, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN is a new musical based on the film. LCT’s Resident Director, Bartlett Sher, still happily reeling from his achievement on South Pacific, leads the extraordinary collaborators Jeffrey Lane (book) and David Yazbek (music and lyrics). Lane and Yazbek, the team behind Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, have taken Almodóvar’s tale and infused it with their own wry, comic style and an irresistible Spanish beat. Four celebrated designers will join them — Michael Yeargan (sets), Catherine Zuber (costumes), Brian MacDevitt (lighting) and Scott Lehrer (sound).
Both touching and hilarious, it’s a story about women and the men who pursue them… finding them, losing them, needing them, and rejecting them. At the center is Pepa (Sherie Rene Scott) whose friends and lovers are blazing a trail through 1980s Madrid. And why do they all keep showing up at her high-rise apartment? Gazpacho anyone?
Along with Pepa, there’s her missing (possibly philandering) lover, Ivan (Brian Stokes Mitchell); his ex-wife of questionable sanity, Lucia (Patti LuPone); Pepa’s friend, Candela (Laura Benanti), and her terrorist boyfriend; a power-suited lawyer (de’Adre Aziza) plus a taxi driver (Danny Burstein) who dispenses tissues, mints and advice in equal proportion. Mayhem and comic madness abound, balanced by the empathy and heart that are trademarks of Almodóvar’s work. And of Bartlett Sher’s too.
Remaining cast to be announced. Read more…
Miercoles Morning Musica : Septeto Nacional
25 Aug 2010
Aqui in Nueva York, the cool rainy weather is making fall feel too close for Mala’s comfort. Thankfully there is Septeto Nacional’s ¡Sin Rumba no hay Son!, which you can listen to this week only by clicking on the link. The Cuban son group bring my mind and body to Caribbean playas and my soul thanking Oshun/la Caridad del Cobre (as they do in one of their tracks).
You can buy the album, released on World Village’s label, on September 14th and if you are in the NYC area you can catch the septet later this week, August 28, at NYC’s Hostos Center for the Arts, where they launch their tour. El Septeto has several dates at Yoshi’s San Francisco and the Monterey Jazz Festival before heading north to Canada in October and November. They’re back in the states in a big way in March/April 2011 with a string of dates culminating with a concert at Carnegie Hall on April 16th.
Martes Morning Musica : India “Estupida”
24 Aug 2010I’ve always liked la India, from her duets with Marc Anthony to her cantos a las Orishas, I think that she has suffered under the curse that so many Latina/Latin American mujer artistas have: living in the place where art meets real life, love.
After disappearing from the Latin musical scene in the U.S., India comes back with a song that only she can belt out about unrequited love and yes, the stupidity that mujeres can fall into in the name of amor.
First we have the salsa version of the song. Make sure to click after the jump to see/listen to the ballad version of the song.
Martes Morning Musica : Los Rakas “Abrazame”
6:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Music · 2 Comments
17 Aug 2010I am all in favor or hugs (actually missing hugs) and culo shakin’ on the playa, especially since the days of summer are numbered.
Via / Remezcla
Monday Musica: Ely Guerra
6:48 am By BiancaLaureano · Arts|Music · 2 Comments
16 Aug 2010We are working on getting a copy of Ely Guerra‘s latest album Hombre Invisible to review for you all, in the meantime check out this sample of the 10 track album! She’ll be on her US tour starting in September. Check out tour dates here.
Hola!
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