Various - Cuba: Music & Revolution - Compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker Culture Clash In Havana Cuba - Experiments In Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1Cuba: Music and Revolution: Culture Clash in Havana: Experiments in Latin Music 1975 85 Vol. 1 is the new album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) that explores the many new styles that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s as Jazz, Funk, Brazilian Tropicalia and even Disco mixed together with Latin and Salsa on the island as Cuban artists experimented with new musical forms created in the unique socialist state of Cuba. The album

the caveman chug of Football Money has been steamed & pressed with the purifying air of a saloon piano - operated with bow-tie untied - and a spring green side-salad of tentatively up-tempo organ taps & freshly fluted harmonica

Del the Funky Homosapien

and it shows

it's a vividly painted picture thats colors shift fluidly from track to track

heroically lachrymose ballads (Make it Easy on Yourself

we find 18 short pictures sound (few of them in collaboration of M

in the process creating many tunes that became epoch-defining hits for South America‰۪s biggest country ‰ÛÓ not to mention the world at large

Over the past twenty years Eden Ahbez has gone from cult figure to harbinger of the Sixties flower-power movement

He scored a number of films in the late 1960s and 1970s including “If” for Lindsay Anderson

Live 80-81 is an essential document of This Heat's powerful live performances

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and with a high profile collaboration with John Coltrane under his belt