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Yet another year has roller-coastered by and it is time, once again, to hand out the coveted Best of the Year Editor's Picks awards to those worthy of the honor. It wasn't an easy task, and there were many titles that could have been included if not for our self-imposed limits. Nonetheless, below you'll find perfect selections to either start or embellish your collection. With salsa, timba, jazz, folklore and charanga freely borrowing and lending flavor, Latin music has never been more fertile. And with the addition of Top Reissues lists as well as a DVD Picks listing, there are over 70 prime titles included this year. So here goes...
The Best of 2008. A year of music.
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Video of the week: Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez with Fania All Stars, Azuquita Mami
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This issue of the Descarga Review:
New releases:
- KARAMANDUKA Y MELCOCHITA w/ "MAG" PERUV. ALL STARS Extra!
- LOS GUANCHES Mi Son Cubana
- MANDY CANTERO Hay Que Luchar
- GRUPO FANTASMA Sonidos Gold
- KLIMAX 10 Años DVD
- MADERA FINA Tito Mangual Presenta...
- ORQUESTA AMERICA Siempre A Punto
- ALAIN DANIEL Bendita Locura
- Peter's Reviews
...and more! Click here.
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Free Shipping when you purchase 10 or more items (US & PR)
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The Descarga Journal
The essential online Latin music magazine
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Interview:
Henry Fiol ...I Am What I Am
by John Child
Although a child prodigy in the visual arts, the multitalented artist Henry Fiol explains to John Child why he has dedicated his life to creating "Corazón Music", a unique blend of Cuban, New York, jazz, Brazilian, doo-wop and American pop elements and flavours, and why he has made his 11th solo album De Cachete (Corazón CD 116, 2008) available as a free download. In addition to discussing De Cachete, Henry talks in depth and with candour about his career and artistic development, sharing with comparable zeal his loves and hates in relation to such topics as charanga flute, rumba, the conjunto sound, timbales, trap drums, timba, bachata and reggaetón, and issues a warning about the danger of the latter musical genre. A thread running through the conversation is the story of Henry's exploration of his dual Latino and Italian-American heritage, and the ultimate realisation of his true identity. After the interview, Henry told John: "I have no doubt that this interview will become the best interview I've ever done in English, 'the quintessential Henry Fiol interview', if you will." The piece is accompanied by a discographic profile. [read]
Profile:
Juanito Márquez: JUANITO, sencillamente
by Raul Fernández
When you meet and talk with Juanito Márquez you are impressed by his humility, his gentle demeanor, his sencillez. Most people would not guess that they are in the presence of a true musical giant. His significant contributions to the development of Cuban popular music have been largely unnoticed by music fans, even Cuban music writers, though not so by his fellow professional musicians. Juanito Márquez represents an exception among Cuban popular musicians of the 20th century in that he excelled in three separate branches of Cuban music. He composed some Latin jazz tunes that became standards of the style; wrote the music and lyrics of several notable boleros including one of the classics, “Alma con Alma”; and contributed significantly to the evolution of Cuban dance rhythms (pilón, Mozambique, pa’ cá) in the 1960s. The story of Cuban music from 1950 to 2008 is inseparable from the musical labors of Juanito Márquez... [read]
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