I have been planning to try to interveiw Samuel on Friday anyway, although he doesn't know anything about my plans :-) My normal contact person seems to be on...
... Thanks. I'll see if I can get my camera to work tomorrow :-) My pictures have gotten worse since I bought a better camera...I think the problem is with me....
Mine are pretty average - I shot off about 150 just to get these. Thing is I'm getting the bones in my body so shaken up by the music, it's all I can do to...
RR - Miguel got some photos and a clip - we put one pic up on www.londonsalsascene.info - Angela from Key2Cuba has done a review but I'm behind on posting -...
Whoops - forgot to post this. For what's it's worth the what-I-think- are-new-Manolin tracks I've got. The comments afterwards are of course extremely personal...
Thanks for the review. It's as we feared then...Manolín still hasn't come back to us. Michelle ... think- ... market. ... es ... degree ... estrellas. ... ...
... Yea, don't ask Van Van about clave. 1) Cubans don't conceive it the same way we do so it would take forever to get your point across. and 2) well they...
... nor, for the moment, is he coming back to you in the more literal sense. He was supposed to arrive in Europe with Luis Bu this week to work on finishing...
Is it that they don't talk about it like we do or is the whole idea of clave less important to them than us. I don't mean just this idea of clave license or...
... clave to 2-3 rumba ... clave. It seems to ... First, save yourself the trouble and think of clave only in terms of direction--3/2 or 2/3. Don't worry if...
... Kevin don't you remember the songo pattern I told you Samuel plays back when you were doing all those comparisons? Well that is it. He's just playing...
I will be in miami march 8-14. There will be 6 people there from san francisco as well.We wanted to see who else was going so we could meet up and go out...
... of clave less important to ... able to switch it. I mean ... parts. Is it still the ... It is very important to all of their music, they just don't codify...
Lolol so juan tell e about the clave changes lolol ... From: "Curtis" <bonestud2000@...> To: timba_geeks@yahoogroups.com Sent: 3/2/2007 9:44 AM Subject:...
Cool. I listened to that part of Azucar. I got it. (actually my first thought was that the odd phrase gives a similar affect as what Hendrix gets in little...
... first thought was that the odd ... with one measure in 2/4 ... Yea, it would have exactly the same effect. . . outside of the clave ramifications that is....
Well I've had a bad headache all day that will not go away. I even left work early to try to sleep but couldn't get to sleep and the aspirin aren't helping. So...
Yeah - thanks for that - very interesting indeed. ... moment, is he coming back to you in the more literal ... that ... BU, ... living ... saying ... ...
... AH!!! He's playing ALL of them, so the jamblock, from the beginning, is 0x0x 0x0x 0x0x 0x0x but a lot of the unaccented upbeats are hard to pick out but at...
... ingredient. ... I think you hit the nail on the head my friend. And that's why this type of music, which is a *living* tradition, will never be viable ...
... Actually there are plenty of musicians all over the world who work like this, but they don't play timba. Instead it's rock, electronica, world jazz, etc. ...
Chapeando El Sol Natural Anda Ven y Muévete Después de Todo Quiéreme Quién No ha Dicho Una Mentira Somos Cubanos Corazón La Buena Agua Te Pone La Cabeza...
... like this, but they don't ... There's a big difference between timba and these other musical forms. "Rock, electronica, world jazz, etc." are not culture...
Kevin, thanks for that great response/explination. Please let us know when that clave book comes out. I couldn't stop thinking about this last night as I went...