s w e e t b e a t s
july.28.2000 - #216
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artist : Up, Bustle and Out
Presents Rebel Radio with Richard Egues
album : Cuban Master Sessions 1, Calle 23, Havana
year : 2000
label : Ninja Tune
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : zencd 046
url : www.ninjatune.net
quality : 192k HQ True Stereo
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01 The Educators 6:20
02 Hip Hop Barrio (who's gonna take the...) 4:51
03 Los Locos Cubanos 2:00
04 Mamφ 4:28
05 Rebel Satellite 5:49
06 Kennedy's Secret Tapes 4:11
07 Estudio Sonocaribe - 1 1:08
08 Descarga con CafΘ 5:42
09 Por eso Quiero 3:21
10 Havana's Streets 3:59
11 Back the Deal 4:56
12 Carbin 744, 520..Che Guevara 3:59
13 Made in Cuba, part 1 3:38
13 tracks | 54 mins | 74 mb
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Up Bustle and Out, always taking in culture from every corner of the
globe and spitting it back in your face thier own hip style. This time
around they join forces with Cuba's Richard Egues (of Buena Vista
Social Club) to bring you the Master Sessions 1, from Calle 23 Havana.
Dope shit indeed...
Also included in this release is the enhanced cd portion, a great visual
presentation of some of the feature tracks, and infomation about this
interesting and extensive project.
text courtesy of ninjatune:
There is an intriguing atmosphere hanging dark like Shakespeare's
'Tempest' over Caribbean Seas. This is a 'Master Sessions Series'
recorded between 2 cities from opposing sides of one huge ocean,
capturing 'the smokeyness of Bristol and the coolness of Havana'.
Could be mistaken for a scene from Graham Greene's novel 'Our Man
in Havana' - in fact, this 2-part album series integrates music,
literature, and film into one compelling intrigue.
Conceptualized, organized and produced from within 2 wee Islands:
the project knew no such territorial boundaries other than horizons
that folded outwards. Drifting dreams sealed like messages in bottles
were beached, broken open and the Words, Music and Images took shape
from out of the morning sea brume. Departing from Bristol's Port,
'Up, Bustle and Out' docked at Sonocaribe Studios on Street 23, Havana,
then teamed up with co-writer 'Richard Egⁿes', whose rhythm section put
the Descarga into everything.
The Sound - old style, the Roots - historic, the Studio - classic
valves, the Vibes - spiced with sabor, the Cut - Bristol/Cuban blend:
sounds and smokes now as good as it did then. So. .How did this
invitation to record in Cuba with famous Maestros occur? On October
8th 1997 'Up, Bustle and Out' released a timely EP single in memory
of Che Guevara on his 30th anniversary since his death in combat. Che
spoke and lead a socialist revolution with rhythm - 'Socialismo con
Pachanga'. This he conveyed via his soft weapon against capitalism -
'Radio Rebelde'. From the initial days of being a crude secret
transmitter, Radio Rebelde has grown into becoming Cuba's principal
station today. 'Up, Bustle and Out's' tour and recording royalties
were used to send this station updated equipment - an offer that was,
in turn, to lead to a rare invitation to record in Cuba. The 'Cuban
Master Sessions Series' was born - íesta nacido! With so much being
said and written about Cuba: passions and admiration running deep and
strong, such a famous Island, proud people, definitive colours, a rich
and tragic history and, ravished colonial gems, meant that the albums
needed enriching with grainy film and a book. Mr Jules 'Shoes' Elvins
of 'Waldo Films, London' shot 16 mm and Super 8 footage throughout the
Island, incorporating revolutionary archive material, studio frames,
urban and inland scenes. These have been eclectically cut and set to
the music as a CD-ROM.
And then came the book - 'The Rebel Radio Diary', which often contrasts
the Diaries of Columbus when he chanced upon the Bay of Baracoa, Cuba,
1492, and Che Guevara when he disembarked in 1956. 'The Rebel Radio
Diary' is termed a 'social-historical, poetic-travelogue' novel that has
been edited by Alice Grandison - freelance editor for 'Canongate Books,
Edinburgh'. It will be distributed nationally by 'Gazelle Books' to all
good book stores. The Diary, as well as comprising direct entries of
observation, is also intended to be historical, humorous, real,
fantastic, romantic, poetic and, above all, captured through an
Aperture of Youth. We leave You with a taster:
"I'd recorded this persuasive percussion the previous night on my
portable DAT player at a Santerφa-inspired backyard event. It was
a timeless and weird event: sluggish bare feet pounded the dry earth
to the magnifying power of the percussion maestro. It was hypnotic;
twirling bodies stirred up the dust and the vision became sepia. In
the centre was a black spiritualist who chanted a repetitive line. His
voice was weighty and obscured amid the conga's bass frequencies. Other
people replied to his chants in concert, but I became lost in a daze of
dust that rose and fell like a tired-out lava lamp. My face was sprayed
with rum. Someone spat it out in a fine spray that sweetened my face
and partially woke me. This was Afro-Cuban Brujerφa, or witchcraft."
www.upbustleandout.co.uk
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