What I'm listening to right now...

im listening to Ruben Blades new album with Roberto Delgado - Son de Panama (released 20.5.2015)

I like it !

Cain is one smokin' track on this album (this came out on single a while back) but there is more, i need time to decide what i like :headphone:

 
Been hanging out with this track for a few days and digging it big time. Downloaded from CD Baby. Who said NYC doesn't make good Salsa any more? I don't know who did the arrangement but I'd like to shake his hand. Might check them out playing live this week.

 
a tribute to Hector lavoe :)

I have to say i like the voice of Juan pablo Diaz (singing el cantante in this clip)
swingin' version of the song too IMO
 
The Burt Bacharach/Ron Isley collaboration was one of the great ideas of the early 21st century.

The level of arrangement on these pieces is equaled only by, well, good Salsa...


If you haven't listened to their entire Soundstage recordings/videos, you should
 
mamberito said:
I think so, altought they play mambo! You have to listen the second cd "Mas mambo que nunca" it's really good!

This is one of the songs:
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I'm curious as to how you differentiate mambo from salsa. These songs don't sound particulaly mambo unless you subscribe to the "not all mambo is salsa but all salsa is mambo" theory. I woud dance son to this one if I could choose.
 
timberamayor said:
I'm curious as to how you differentiate mambo from salsa. These songs don't sound particulaly mambo unless you subscribe to the "not all mambo is salsa but all salsa is mambo" theory. I woud dance son to this one if I could choose.
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Hi! Indeed I think it would be better to dance it as a son. I am not an expert musician and I started to dance two years ago, and I've recently joined to the "theory"... As far as I know the difference between salsa and classic mambo is: the presence of clave... Don't know if it's totally true, what do you think?
 
"Los sopranos" from Venezuela are back ! I really liked their album a few years ago. great to see them back releasing more Salsa



here is another track doing the rounds at the moment from Gerardo Rosales
....ahh life is good :D

 
mamberito said:
Hi! Indeed I think it would be better to dance it as a son. I am not an expert musician and I started to dance two years ago, and I've recently joined to the "theory"... As far as I know the difference between salsa and classic mambo is: the presence of clave... Don't know if it's totally true, what do you think?
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Both mambo and salsa (and also son) have clave that sometimes is explicitly played i.e. a musician is either playing claves or playing the clave on a jam block for instance. Or in both mambo and salsa the clave can be implied by the rest of the patterns of the instruments. In traditional son calve is always present I'd say but not in modern son. I personally have an idea that mambo sounds like the old Perez Prado music, and I don't like that. But I know that in the NY context the definition of mambo is much wider and would be mainly what I think of as salsa. Any way I think we have strayed off-topic here and must head for a different thread LOL

But to not get too far OT, here is a case from Chile where the group feels they are playing modern son. Is this also mambo? It is timba when it gets close to then end? Or is it salsa?
 
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