Castle Classics Cuban Traditional Music

Various: Orquesta Cuba - Contradanzas & Danzones - Rotterdam Conservatory Orquesta Típica; Rotterdam Conservatory Charanga Orchestra

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI7058-9

2 CD Set

"These discs fill a huge - almost 135 year - history gap ... a brilliantly recorded, fitting tribute to those exceptional years." - Jan Fairley, Classic CD Magazine
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Various: Cuba - The Trova - Trio Yagua

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI5565

The trovas, guajiras and boleros heard here all belong to the Cuban song family called canción. In contrast to the African percussive elements so obvious in the son and the rumba, the roots of these songs can be found in European forms such as pasa dobles, romances, contredanses and so on. Many composers on this disc almost seem to have come from a Who's Who of the golden age of Cuban song-writing - Lecuona, Matamores, Teofilito, Corona, Grenet, Delfin - all gave us these little masterpieces that have become standards in Latin-American repertoire throughout the world
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Various: Music from Oriente de Cuba - Caña Quema

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI5517

Cuba has had an influence on popular music out of all proportion to its size. The genre that dominates this influence is the son. It seems to have originated in eastern Cuba, influenced both by Afro-Cuban and Spanish musics. By the 1930s the son dominated popular music in Havana; famous groups such as the Sexteto Habanera, the Septeto Nacional of Ignacio Pineiro and the Trio Matamoros date from this time. Eventually the son became the pre-eminent Cuban genre, cutting right across racial, class and ethnic divisions. Later, ensembles took up residence in New York. The style we know as salsa took hold and flourished there and went on to conquer dance-halls world-wide
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Various: Oriente de Cuba - The Valera Miranda Family; Folkloyuma; Estudiantina Invasora; Trio Yagua

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI1746

5 CD Set
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Various: Contradanzas & Danzones - Rotterdam Conservatory Orquestra Típica

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI5502

French colonists took the contredanse to the Caribbean in the eighteenth century. After the French Revolution, in the turmoil accompanying the birth of the first independent Caribbean republic, Haiti, many thousand French settlers, with their families and domestic slaves, fled to Cuba. Their cultural impact was considerable. The contradanza cubana that evolved had a binary structure pulsed to the Afro-Caribbean rhythm known as the cinquillo, and the habañera. In the second half of the nineteenth century the contradanza developed into the more elaborate danzón, danced by couples, and by the end of the contury musicians were incorporating the estribillo section of the son as a coda to the danzónes. Right up until the 1940s the danzón was very popular in Cuba
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Cuban Jazz - Alfredo Rodriguez y Los Acereko

Label - Naxos World

Cat. No. - 76046-2

Including LAZARO GONZALEZ / ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ: Con el sabor de la tierra; FELIZ REINA: El Niche; DUKE ELLINGTON / JUAN TIZOL: Caravan; G. "TIO TEM" ASCENCIO: Consuelate; BOBBY CARCASES; Blues guaguanco; ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ: Maleta y Nylon; JEROME KERN: All the Things You Are; TATA GUINES: Pa' gozar; ROBERT SCHUMANN: Scene d'enfant
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Various: The Estudiantina Tradition - Estudiantina Invasora

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI5448

Spanish dictionaries tell us that the estudiantinas are students, dressed up in traditional university uniforms, who roam the streets playing a variety of instruments either for fun or for money. In Cuba the estudiantina tradition is limited to the Oriente province. The first group of this kind was founded in Santiago de Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century. Called Estudiantina Oriental it consisted of two singers, a tres, a guitar, a small pair of Cuban timpani (paila), maracas, claves and a marimba which is a large wooden box with iron tongues which serves as a double bass. By the turn of the century there was a variety of these kinds of group, mainly in Santiago and Guantanamo
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Various: Entre Salsa y Son - Featuring Yaqueline Castellanos, Juan Diaz 'El Indio', Evelio Galan, Geronimo Marinez, Alexis Ramirez, Paulina May

Label - Alba

Cat. No. - ABCD203

Including Virgen del Cobre; Santa Barbara; El Cuarto de Tula; La Dama del Son; Son del a Madrugada; Tintorera; Papa Montero...

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Various: The Son - Music from Oriente de Cuba - The Valera Miranda Family

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI5421

Cuban culture can be separated into three strands: the indigenous one, the Spanish one and the African one. In addition to this observation one needs to bear in mind another process commonly known as creolization, a new and truly local culture that can no longer be analysed as just the sum of the parts that created it. Son is a music that took both European and African elements and transformed them into a new indigenous art form. These elements, of verse structure, call and response singing and rhythm were combined in a way that a new music was born. Son can also be defined by region. The son recorded on this CD is from the region approximately 70 miles north of the northern capital of Santiago
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Various: The Rumba - Music from Oriente de Cuba - Folkloyuma

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI5425

Rumba, like son, is a truly Cuban music. It is party music, collectively enjoyed and produced by the lower strata of Cuban society. It is believed that rumba was born in the suburbs of the main urban centres after the abolition of slavery in 1886. The freed slaves, who were mainly to be found in the countryside, did not possess any land and were forced to go to the cities to find work and shelter. In the courtyards of the overcrowded slums of the cities they created their collective feasts, called rumbas, tumbas, macumbas or tambos. Of all those denotations, the word rumba remained
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