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A very short clip of our concert in Vaires-sur-Marne, filmed by flutist Emilie Laroubine (thanks, Emilie!), who came to sit [...]

[ March 28, 2008; 20h00; ]

Con el permiso de los santos 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 [...]

Çasonando

Premier Gaou, minidisc recording
While the roots of Çasonando are in traditional Cuban dance music, the band also incorporates elements of the more modern timba, Senegalese soukous, Colombian cumbia, and jazz…

I met Eddy Carvajal when we both played together with Parisian son group Barrio del Este. He had just arrived in Paris from Santiago de Cuba, [...]

Conjunto 23

Candela, from the debut album, recorded in 2003
Conjunto 23 (pronounced “cone-hoon-toe vain-tee-tress”) is essentially a traditional Cuban band with some special Philadelphia twists…

While their old-school sound is as swinging as the likes of Compay Segundo or Ibrahim Ferrer, their interest in jazz, soul, and the more modern sounds of Cuban timba (also read: “freaky, funky, [...]

The culmination of my two years studying ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University was my Master’s Thesis, finished in April of 2005, entitled Tourist Songs: Cultural Tourism, The Buena Vista Social Club, and Cuban Son. I address the recent shifts in the Cuban policy on tourism, and observe the (many) ways in which these changes directly affect [...]