la negra tiene tumbao

[Sebastian gets busy]

hi everybody this is sebastian from tallahassee, just letting you know that this is my african and afro caribbean and latin thread with tasty elements of jazz and other black music thrown in as well. and gee if i feel like uploading some wagner or strauss i damn well will! but i am actually studying the percussion of african and caribbean countires so i know a little bit about htis music. some of oyu really know soul and i am glad that this forum is still around since i still listen to loleatta holloway and ann peebles!!!!!!!

radio sabor begins now!

[Sebastian gets busy]

lets start with youtube links

this is one of the big schools of african drumming

this is sabar drumming

street dancers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrSEWmcSiFY

expression of female sexuality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk6sDsxsegk

sabar and mali/senegal/guinea is a huge influence of funk music. Muslim slaves from senegal and mali were brought to america especially after slavery was abolished, the sabar and mali empire sound can be heard in funk music, related music all the way to hip hop and step dancers

the dancing is amazing, u can find lots of it on youtube, some of the women are so freaking acrobatic and graceful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHH8cLESbko

this video has no live drumming, but nice pop music with sabar drumming

if you listen to early youssou music u will hear the drumming too

the music and dancing is beautiful


LOL THIS NEXT ONE IS AJOKE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2F5GC8ePE8

I JUST LIKE THE COMMENT "WELL DONT THIS LOOK RIDICULOUS"

IT GOT SPED UP IN CONVERSION

LMAO

-----------------------------------------------

ok here is a documentary

it is pretty amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTDC7hJEqT4

[Sebastian gets busy]

a trip through memory lane... salsa y merengue

just check these out

these are classic songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1G_t_yY4Y

la india and eddie palmierie - mi primera rumba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OuOlWl8yKg

La Voz de la Experiencia - celia cruz and la india... celia passing the torch.. one legend to the next...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCY-xM9t7TY

La india and tito puente - jazzin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biRPzDRXN3A

ghana'e - willie colon and hector lavoe... this is a classic of classics, and has been remixed in house music and other popular music...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wV91-MrqI

ruben blades and willie colon - pedro najava... ruben is the man, willie is hte man. you should know this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTKHhpwP6Qk

marc anthony and la india - vivir lo nuestro... dig marc anthonys hair!!! he can sing though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hmI7O8zHq8

ashley - yo soy la bomba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WBypBiXfAU

good merengue from a bigtime sex cymbal

elvis crespo - suavamente...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzjKjUjqEpc

La India & Oscar D`Leon "Hazme el amor"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPgKG3qXHts

LOS ADOLESCENTE - HOY APRENDI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viye93PqUYY

Los adolescentes - persona ideal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4OiBBxI0s

la banda gorda - traego fuego.. wonderful merengue form dominican republic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRjew8flPi8

ruben blades and willie - tiburon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urPOByq1Eck

la lupe - que te pedi

get yo gangster on with htis (it was in american gangster)

[Sebastian gets busy]

so ricky martin grew up and makes serious latin music now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HnwX3xMfEs

its fantastic! and he has a full percussion section too

[Sebastian gets busy]

i was doing some sabar drumming with my teacher and our ensemble. i even brought my latest love interest and she was picking up on the bass drum parts and the lead drum parts.

it struck me how much the style of call and response found in this sounds like hip hop, not only the beats of rap music but the actual way that black musicians rap and sing.

this stuff swings a lot

listening to soca today i could really hear the background in steel pan orchestras, but in soca i think a lot of the big band jazzy sound of old calypso is lost?

i really like the dialogue in good soca between the percussion: (iron section, the bass drum, often an indian tassa or the boom of a djembe or dounoun, and the congas or pitched african drums) and the way it goes back and forth and weaves in and out of the pulse of the guitars and the riffs of the keyboards/synthesizers

my mind is slowing down or speeding up and its like i can analyze beats differently now.. this stuff can really alter your perception. i think good dancers really get into an amazing ecstatic trance. its why good martial artists can kick ass, the other guy is moving so slowly to them, its like the matrix or something. the mind is awesome.


(soca has a steady beat of iron which is not congas, steel pan, drum set or afreican drums but something else, really just a instrument made of iron with a few different pitches struck rapidly... similar beats are banged out on jouvert morning on the infamous "bottle an spoon"... the equivalent in salsa is the clave, shekere and maraca combo along with tambourines and the other ratchety instruments that make the rapid background that the conga players and piano players and bass players groove on)

[Sebastian gets busy]

check it out.

PUNTA AND GARIFUNA MUSIC OF HONDURAS, AND BELIZE



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeMrcPToPmQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRPqm9HxWHs

these above two are form aurelio martinez, a honduran artist of the garifuna culture. garifuna is a mix of african slaves and carib indian refugees. the language is a mix of those cultures. there are remnants of garifuna in st vincent but most now live in honduras, belize and nicaragua.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ01Kcx8k6c

here is andy palacio, a belize musician and activist and politician doing garifuna themed music. He started doing PUNTA music in the early 90s but his last album before he died (early) was pure garifuna music. this is the main song from hte excellent album, WATINA (beautiful album, one of hte best of 2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmrcZl_X8U

another song from the watina album, this is a live performance of the song "baba"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcloOBiSIs



above is andy talking about garifuna culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wwgUit7274

I love this one. its the older punta music he used to do. The albums with this type of music are hard to find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZguDhcKRhb8

another andy palacio PUNTA music concert!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5xOup3YaGo

video of garifuna dances and music in honduras with little kids drumming and dancing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9wcJ504hS8

honduras punta music (good msuic, short video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyTwW_c1Zxk

punta music form LA festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4W43pEw4f0

punta from belize

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Xi6lcN3hE

interesting video form a film that will tlak about belize music and the evolution of punta!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZCUYAGNsIM

here is a trailer from that film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFGUGI_OzGw

FANTASTIC punta music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVPIod9lE8

another good video from the same group as above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNhlJvPufvM

beautiful honduran punta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ55Qgek1Rk

girl dancing punta msuic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOW48wJd950

punta dancing with traditional costumes

THERE I THINK THAT IS ENOUGH FOR NOW

PLEASE ENJOY

[Sebastian gets busy]

the mozambique rhtym

thsi is a cuban carnival rhtym descended form another cuban rhytm which is a cousin of brazillian samba, infact the rhythm mozambique is influenced by has been called cuban samba

in the 70s, african american conga players took mozambique and made the african maerican version which is still the prototypical conga rhtyhm that novice players will play in parks and on the streets, u can hear the watered down mozambique in marvin gay's "whats going on" and the groove of the song is built around it



<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jp9lBqecViE&hl ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jp9lBqecViE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DtUMa0FtuWY&hl ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DtUMa0FtuWY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Funky Butler]

can you upload some good trombone music?