Prietos

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:57:29
Personnel includes: Omar Sosa (vocals, piano, timbales); Will Power, Martha Galarraga (vocals); Sheldon Brown (soprano & tenor saxophones, bass & Turkish clarinets); Geoff Brennan (acoustic bass); Elliot Kavee (drums); Gustavo Ovalles (percussion). Principally recorded at Coast Recorders, San Francisco, California in July 2000. Includes liner notes by Omar Sosa. Personnel: Omar Sosa (vocals, piano, timbales); Yassir Chadly (vocals, hand claps); Maria Marquez (vocals); John Santos (berimbau, guiro, timbales, waterphone); Sheldon Brown (bass clarinet, saxophone); Nestor Zurita (alto saxophone); Robbie Kwock (trumpet); Aly Keita (balafon); Geoff Brennan (acoustic bass); Harouna Dembele (djembe). Audio Mixer: Omar Sosa. Liner Note Author: Omar Sosa. Recording information: Aquilo Produccion, Quito, Ecuador (07/2000); Coast Records, San Francisco, CA (07/2000); Post Data Studio (07/2000); Studio La Chaudiere, Paris, France (07/2000); Ventilador Stuidos, Barcelona, Spain (07/2000). Photographer: Olivier Auverlau. Unknown Contributor Role: David Frazer. Pianist Omar Sosa and his band fuse divergent musical influences on the CD Prietos. Sounds from Morocco, Ecuador, Venezuela, Ivory Coast, Brazil, the United States, and Burkina Faso coalesce with musical sensibilities from Sosa's homeland of Cuba. Especially striking on Prietos is the intertwining of hip-hop verse with traditional sounding Yoruban lyrics and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Though the contrast between the urban U.S. art form and the time-honored Cuban tradition may appear to be bit incongruous, Sosa and his crew of talented musicians make it flow on such tunes as "Takes a Second." A bevy of instruments -- including Moroccan qarqabas and bendirs, Venezuelan tambor redondos and quitiplas, and Brazilian berimbaus -- add layers of ear-catching textures to the standard Latin big-band sound. Prietos, which means "dark" in Spanish, is a coherent CD that combines music from Africa and the Africa Diaspora without coming across as contrived or forced. It's a testament to the African experience in the New World, and a product of Sosa's creative approach to music making. ~ John Vallier
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