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Al compas del mundo – programa #47, 9-27-22
La música Cubana, chico
01 Celina y Reutilio - La Caridad del Cobre
02 Los Guaracheros de Oriente - Al Vaiven de Mi Carreta
03 El Jilguero de Cienfuegos - Cocinero Complaciente
04 Cuarteto Machin - El huerfanito
05 Cheo Marquetti Y Su Conjunto - Apriétala En El Rincón
06 Beny Moré – Francisco Guayabal (Perlas Cubanas)
07 Orquesta Akokan - Otro Nivel
08 Eliades Ochoa - Píntate los Labios María
09 Sierra Maestra - El Guararey de Pastora
10 Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos - Como Se Goza en el Barrio
11 Cachaito Lopez - Mis Dos Pequeñas
12 Israel 'Cachao' Lopez - Africa Suite - Juana la coja
13 Albita Rodriguez - Habra Musica Guajira
14 Silvio Rodriguez – Papalote
15 Pedro Luis y Lena Ferrer – Margarita
Es la música Cubana, chico! And a remarkable journey it’s been. The West African slave trade brought a sizable working force for the Cuban cane fields. Naturally, they brought their music with them and what developed from that multi-cultural (from Ghana, Dahomey, Benin, etc.) brew became the basis for the “tropical” Cuban sound of the 20th century onward. No surprise then, that such a music found favor back in the motherland, come the spread of records and radio broadcasts throughout the African continent.
Next thing you know there’s Senegalese bands playing mambos and singing in pidgin Spanish. Diffusion can be a very positive thing! And on the streets of downtown Havana, it’s not too much of an exaggeration to say every corner has a bar and every bar has a band killin’ it. A good town for music lovers, dancers, and drinkers.
Ribot is the one ringer here but his group, Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans), are legit; the music was written by Arsenio Rodriguez, a Cuban legend; and it's some very fine garage band Cuban, methinks.
And as a political aside, Cubans had long been fond of saying “Contra Fidel? Ni en la pelota!” (“Go against Fidel? Not even in baseball!”) Don’t bet against Cuba. - J.H.
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