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the Way Blue Bucket on BandCamp.com

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:58:29 +0000

A blast from my underground avant-jazz-rock-noise past : the Way Blue Bucket’s eponymous studio album is now available for digital download on bandcamp.com.

← You can listen to the songs and buy them to download or tweet about them using the player here on left, or go right to bandcamp »

Want to know more about the Way Blue Bucket? I’ve got a little page dedicated to them right here »

Guarachando en La Habana

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:14:38 +0000

I’m just back from two weeks in Cuba, my first time back since 2004, when I was there to do my fieldwork for my thesis. This time around, Cécile and I spent many an afternoon blissfully strolling around Habana Vieja, stopping here and there to dance and jam with the groups who play in bars and on street corners all around the neighborhood.

One group I remembered from a previous trip, as they’re one of the few groups in La Habana to play a real old-style son with a marimbula and a botija instead of a double bass! The group is called Típico de Sones, and I’ve included here a clip of us jamming together on Compay Segundo’s Chan chan.

Barrio del Este & Hirondelle d’Afrique

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:50:18 +0000

A few weeks ago, the members of Barrio del Este were asked to perform for the special Journée Africaine held every year in the Parisian suburb Villiers-sur-Marne. It’s a charity event to raise money for the organization called Hirondelle d’Afrique, which runs a free school in the town of Grand Popo, Bénin.

We’ve been asked to do the gig in the past, but the dates never worked out for all of the musicians involved. Finally, this year, everyone was in town and free and willing to help out this great organization. The result was a super street party featuring Barrio del Este as the “headlining” act.

Our friend and de facto fan club president Noriko Nookoo was there to document the event, and came away with several great photos and some fine video clips, including the one you see here (click on the image in the top left of the article to play the video). Noriko has been nice enough to set up and run our Barrio del Este Facebook Page, open to anyone (no need to be on Facebook already), where you can find many recent photos and videos like this one – go check it out!