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| About the artist |
Cachao López |
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Cachao with Andy García |
Cachao, known as the King of Mambo, will perform on April 21st in the James L. Knight Center in Miami with the Cineson All Stars, playing music from the soundtrack to Lost City, a film in which the famous Cuban actor takes a nostalgic look at old Havana. |
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 In an recent interview with La Jornada, Juan de Marcos González, musical promoter for the musical phenomenon that is the Buena Vista Social Club, assured that it was a cultural phenomenon and cultural phenomena have their historical moment; to me, Buenavista is something that has come to an end.
The records dont sell here, but theres a room in the legendary National hotel called Compay Segundo, where one of the group members plays every week for tourists.
The Buena Vista Social Club was a real place, in the barrio of the same name in the Western part of Cubas capital. In the stratified society of the first half of last century, it was a dance hall for poor black people.
The second disc in the series was named after a song by double bassist Orestes López Cachao. The song was included on the album upon the suggestion from the authors son, Orlando López Cachaito, who plays the same instrument in the group.
Meanwhile, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the recording and the tribute concert, a book by Cuban journalist Orlando Matos has appeared in Mexico, taking the case of Buenavista as part of a broad look at the islands popular music and discography during the 20th century.
The text is call Amadito Valdés, las baquetas de oro de Buenavista Social Club: a personal history of Cuban music, and uses the conversation between the author and the groups timbales player who will also be in the National Auditorium concert as a focal point.
The musicians in Buenavista musicologist Leonardo Acostanada says in the introduction dont rely on a supposed nostalgia for the past. Firstly, because the international audience that have praised them, young or old, had never been exposed to that music; the Cuban music that reached them was mainly that of Xavier Cugat or Armando Oréfiches Lecuona Cuban Boys, not the music from the barrios, or the music that people were dancing to in those euphemistic societies of color the music that laid the groundwork for our rhythms.
We think that if a nostalgia exists, it would be for the present, born out of sense of discordance with the present and the predominate music now, whose main accomplishment seems to be an excessive decibel level.
VOY / Agencies
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