Author: Carlos Placeres

Format: Audiobook

Release Date: 2004-02-17

Details: Product Description Composer/singer/musician Carlos Placeres delivers the music of his native Havana with a global twist. His unique sound - filled with Spanish and African roots - is a fusion of multiple influences: rumba, guaguancó, bolero, son, conga, danzón and timba. Mixing black and white rhythms, Carlos Placeres superimposes social poetry and humor on traditional and contemporary melodies and beats. He is known in Cuba as a "trovador" - a modern troubadour. "A special thanks to LOS ANCESTROS for giving me the opportunity to make music with my guitar and my voice. Thank you for being such an inspiration and for teaching me that speaking up is the only way to get my message across." Carlos Placeres, singer-songwriter from Havana gives us some of his music with Spanish and African roots and multiple influences: rumba, guaguancó, bolero, conga, danzón and timba. Carlos Placeres is what is called in Cuba a "trovador", a troubadour. His social poetry and humor intertwine in traditional and contemporary melodies and rhythms. "Thank you TO LOS ANCESTROS who taught me not to have the tongue in my pocket, who gave me the inspiration and the opportunity to make music with my guitar and my voice." Amazon.ca The Wim Wenders-Ry Cooder duo ( Buena Vista Social Club) unleashed, at the end of the 90s, a sometimes disappointing avalanche of Afro-Cuban jazz on the international market. With At Los Ancestros, Carlos Placeres can boast of having escaped the hype by creating a sound as pleasurable as it is particular – even innovative – in a niche that we thought was oversaturated. Accompanied by an orchestra that bears witness to the richness of the Quebec melting pot, the Montreal-based songwriter masters a myriad of instruments and, above all, a superb voice: never affected, it is patently warm, joyful sadness whose frankness is beyond doubt. In A Los Ancestros, we rediscover this music in all its sprawling interbreeding. Each influence – from West Africa to Louisiana via Sao Paolo – finds a distinct voice, never erased and yet always at the service of the other. Ignoring the surfers of passing fashions and the constraints of genres, Carlos Placeres offers music of a divine impurity, which will appeal to laymen and initiates alike, for the simple reason that it emanates from it tunes of a palpable authenticity and intense scents of humanity. --David Desjardins

UPC: 774204980726

EAN: 0774204980726

Languages: Spanish

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood