Babalu Ayé

Artist: Chucho Valdés & Irakere Label: Bembe Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 602303202022 EAN: 0602303202022 ASIN: B00000DAPS Release Date: 1999-02-16

Listmania:

1. Paseando por la musica cubana

Tracks:

1. Solo Te Echaron Un Medio
2. Por Romper El Coco
3. Feliz Cumpleanos
4. Esta Noche
5. Tres Dias
6. La Comparsa
7. Babalu Aye

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Irakere plays salsa on this Grammy nominated CD.......1999-02-19

Irakere came on the scene in the late '70s with a style of Latin jazz that incorporated soaring jazz brass with quite traditional Cuban rhythms, and punctuated by electric guitars and a funky bass. In the years since, Irakere music has been characterized by a hot jazz sound with a very danceable beat.

Now comes "Babalu Ayý", Irakere's latest CD in which they close a circle of sorts. Most of the songs on this album are Salsa Cubana, some sounding very much like the original NY salsa of years past. But of course, salsa with the Irakere flair: electric guitars with the distortion cranked up coming in and out; the horn section playing tightly, then loosening considerably in the solos, putting little relaxed ornaments around each phrase, then suddenly tightening up again; the whole band chanting phrases in unison. Then after plenty of straight-ahead Salsa Cubana, the CD is finished off with a mighty rumba. Lazaro Ros, accompanied by bata drums, a coro singing responses and the occasional Irakere instrumental, sings the story of healer Babalu Ayý, taking us back to the African traditions that still live on in Cuba, perhaps more strongly than in any other African-based community in the Americas.

Irakere has always stayed close to their Afro-Cuban roots. Now on "Babalu Ayý" they also pay homage to another, much more urban source of the Irakere sound. This CD provides a very satisfying picture of the contrasts that make Afro-Latin music so rich.

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