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100% OF PROCEEDS FROM THIS ALBUM (CD/DIGITAL) GO TO HELP SUPPORT MUSICIANS AND FAMILY IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA
4-page digipack with no plastic parts, artfully designed with bilingual sleeve notes (English-Spanish), photos and itinerary (on CD) from Festival Del Caribe
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Two albums launched together at Rich Mix, London 2011: Time Zone with Ewegbemi Batá Ensemble played music from the Evocación album, like this!: youtu.be/hllPgVCXfco. The 2 CDs come in matching card folders, artfully designed with photos and notes revealing some of the stories behind the music. A tune from Time Zone's "Bilingual" also appears on the Cuban album, in different key and tempo.
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A fine pair of CDs in artfully designed equal sized card packs: the Proyecto Evocación album "Roots en Route" (2010) explores some of the Cuban roots behind Time Zone's "Clave Sin Embargo" (2019).
Includes unlimited streaming of Roots en Route • Raices en Viaje
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"The sound shifts deftly between the exuberant and celebratory and those Cuban melodies that bring out more complex feelings of nostalgia and deep loss. Influences from the son and country music Santiago is famous for come beautifully from Nestor Lago Machado’s tres guitar, its six metal strings adding reedy riffs over rapped clave and dancing conga rhythms, while Speyer takes melodies spinning with great jazz sensibility. Speyer may be from the UK but he’s managed to achieve that burnished golden trumpet sound Cuba is so famous for." - Jan Fairley, Songlines
"The percussive backdrops, dominated by gurgling bata drums and crisp, stinging timbales, are handled with real finesse but it is the combination of Rafael Cisneros Leskay's tremendously noble voice and the leader's concise, often sparse melodic lines that give the session a real edge, as if everybody understands that deeply rooted Latin folk traditions can be embellished by jazz harmony and a concise arrangement without compromising any communicative power." - Kevin Legendre, Jazzwise
PROYECTO EVOCACIÓN: Speyer's Cuban collaboration with master percussionist Rafael Cisneros (Manolo) of Ballet Folklorico Cutumba - and a fine group of musicians based in Santiago de Cuba. The album was a quick thing, recorded in a small basement studio, hot on the heels of four nights playing for the people on four very different stages in Santago's Festival Del Caribe.
ROOTS EN ROUTE - RAICES EN VIAJE
1. El Cimarrón (Rafael Cisneros)
2. Evocación Ochún Colé (arr Rafael Cisneros): Iyami Ile Oro (trad) - Rico Pilón (Enrique Bonne)
3. Dos Gardenias (Isolina Carrillo) - Bilingual (Loz Speyer) - Sevillana (Saldiguerra)
4. Alumbanché para mis Abuelos (Loz Speyer)
5. La Subidora (trad) - the Night has a Thousand Eyes (Weisman, Wayne, Garrett)
credits
released June 28, 2010
PROYECTO EVOCACIÓN
Loz Speyer - trumpet, flugelhorn
Rafael Cisneros Lescay - 3 batá, congas, lead voice
Nestor Lago Machado - trés, coro
Yoel del Rio Olivera - double bass, coro
Ramón Marquez Dominguez - congas, 3 batá
Yoilán Zamora Guibend - timbales, percussion
Juan de la Tejera Columbié - congas, hand percussion
Roberto Cisneros Tijas - guiro and clave
'Work' is one of my favourite Monk tunes and I've been working on his music for a long time, often with guitarists. This solo guitar take on ALL his tunes is just great - warm, good natured and true. Loz Speyer / Spherical Records
Petra and Meg went to an island off the coast of Norway to make this record, and deliver 45mins of intense musicality and emotional directness, beyond what you'd think possible for a duo. Loz Speyer / Spherical Records
A sonic exploration of the life and thoughts of trees, this is brave and exploratory contemporary classical music and avant-jazz. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 6, 2022
