Soul Jazz Records Cuba Music & Revolution Vinyl LP 2020

Tracklist:

1. Grupo Irakere - Chequere Son
2. Conjunto Rumbavana - El Son Del Campeon
3. Juan Formell & Los Van Van - Mi Ritmo Caliente
4. Grupo Monumental - Mi Son Caridad
5. Grupo de Experimentacio?n Sonora del ICAIC - Sondeando
6. Las D'Aida - Con Cadencia y Con Dulzura
7. Juan Formell & Los Van Van - Y No Le Conviene
8. Pablo Milane?s - Te Quiero Porque Te Quiero
9. Emi?liano Salvador - Luna Wanestain
10. Los Reyes 73 - Un Lamento Hecho Cancion
11. Eduardo Ramos - Vocacio?n Revolucio?n
12. Grupo Mounmental - Hasta Las Cuantas
13. Los 5 U 4 - Solo Esta Musica
14. Grupo de Experimentacio?n Sonora del ICAIC - Cancio?n Con Todos
15. Orquesta Los Van Van - Yo Se Que Van Van
16. Grupo Mounmental - Nadie Se Siente Cansado
17. Orquesta Ritmo Oriental - Maria, Baila El Son
18. Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo - Rompe Cocorioco
19. Los Reyes 73 - Grandes Amigos Paquito D'Rivera - La Patica
20. Grupo de Experimentacio?n Sonora del ICAIC - Grifo
21. Rau?l Go?mez - Dacapo Grupo Irakere - Juana 1600

‘Cuba: Music and Revolution’ is a 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 comes as a deluxe double CD and heavyweight triple vinyl, complete with extensive sleeve notes, jam-packed with heavy basslines, synth and Wah- Wah guitar funk combined with the heavyweight percussion, powerful brass lines and the all-encompassing Latin rhythms of Cuban music known throughout the world.

The music on this album features legendary Cuban groups such as Irakere, Los Van Van and Pablo Milanés, as well as a host of lesser known artists such as the radical Grupo De Experimentación, Juan Pablo Torres and Algo Nuevo, Grupo Monumental and Orquesta Ritmo Oriental, groups whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba owing to the now 60-year old US trade embargo which remains in place today and which prevents trade with Cuba - and thus most Cuban records were only ever available in Cuba or in ex-Soviet Union states.

The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s - who were all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms that reflected both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music - and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album has never been heard outside of Cuba.

Both Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have been involved in Cuban music for more than two decades - Gilles Peterson with his many Havana Cultura projects for his Brownswood label and Stuart Baker with a number of Soul Jazz Records albums recorded in Cuba. This Soul Jazz Records album is released in conjunction with Egrem, the Cuban state record company, and has been put together after the many crate-digging trips that both compilers have made on the streets of Havana and beyond in Cuba stretching over a 20-year period, searching out rare and elusive original Cuban vinyl records.