All the articles in the Çasonando category

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Studio Version

November 13th 2008

The opening track of the new Çasonando demo! Lyrics & music by Eddy Carvajal and yours truly.

Eddy came up with a chord progression that reminded me a lot of a tune I like by Gerardo Alfonso, called “Asi de sencillo.” …

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Harina de maíz

November 12th 2008

The second track on the Çasonando demo : an arrangement of a classic son by Luis Rengifo, based on the the version I heard by Cuarteto Rumí (who used to play in front of the Hotel Inglaterra in Havana when I was there back in 2001).

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¡Çasonando live!

April 10th 2008

A very short clip of our concert in Vaires-sur-Marne.

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Con el permiso de los santos (1)

January 28th 2008

Finished Jan. 12 2008, 33 rue viala
We’ve just finished the arrangement of singer Eddy Carvajal’s new tune, which includes a bridge that Eddy and I worked on together. We’ve been looking for a solid medium tempo song to include in our new demo recording (to be completed by the early spring, we hope!), and this [...]

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Premier Gaou

May 20th 2007

Minidisc recording, Fall 2006
With Premier Gaou, we tried taking a song from another context and approaching it in a fundamentally Cuban way. We don’t do this song in concert very often, as it is not always comfortable for dancers, but we still pull it out every once in a while for fun.

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