World & International Albums:

Gipsy Rhumba: The Original Rhythm of Gipsy Rhumba in Spain 1965-74

Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

Format:

CD
Unavailable
Sorry, this product is not currently available to order

Description

Soul Jazz Records’ new release is the first album ever outside of Spain to focus on the history of Gipsy Rhumba – one of the most interesting musical culture clashes – that first took place in the early 1960s.

In the Catalan region of Spain, gipsies, primarily known as the creators of Flamenco, came up with a fascinating hybrid style – Gipsy Rhumba – which blended together Latin and Rhumba music of Cuba and the Caribbean together with their own flamenco, as well as the emerging rock’n’roll from America.

As well as a musical overview of this unique art form, the release comes with extensive contextual notes (in English and Spanish) and the photography of Jacques Leonard, who documented gipsy life in the 1960s, creating one of the most important records of their unique world in the 20th century.

Gipsy culture is the original rebel form, existing outside of ‘normal society’, a trans-migrant people who value highly the ideas of freedom and independence. Today gipsies are established in many European countries.

At the end of 19th century, gipsies who settled in Southern Spain take hold of flamenco, defined as the ‘Andalusian gipsy’ art. But it is out of the barrios of Barcelona in the North that a new genre appears in 1963: the Catalan Rhumba. A crossroads between flamenco, Caribbean music and rock’n’roll, Catalan gipsies develop a new way of playing flamenco guitar known as the ‘ventilador’, a technique that combines the strumming of guitar strings whilst the palms of the hand drum the rhythm on the body of the guitar. The guitar, the handclaps and certain songs originating from the Caribbean give birth to this new style.

The Catalan rhumba built its repertoire on Caribbean songs, especially from Cuba and Puerto Rico, but also from New York. However, its true value is how the essence of these songs were used to build a new style, often with just a guitar and some handclaps.

In the 1970s a new generation of gipsy rhumba emerges, as the scene is enriched with a variety of styles, and keyboards, electric guitars, funky basses and wind sections appear. The vocalists start using more flamenco cadences.

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. Rabbit Rumba Q Nuestro Ayer
  2. El Noi Q Labios Morenos
  3. Los Gitanos Polinais Q En El Fondo Del Mar De Lima
  4. Antonio Gonzalez Q Sarandonga
  5. Peret y Sus Gitanos Q La Fiesta No Es Para Feos
  6. El Gitano Portugues Q Fuí A Bahía
  7. Maruja Garrido Q Che Camino
  8. Juncal y Sus Calistros Q Tequila
  9. Moncho y Su Wawanko Gitano Q Orisa
  10. Peret y Sus Gitanos Q Voy, Voy
  11. Dolores Vargas Q Anana Hip
  12. Chango Q El Guapo
  13. Ramonet y Sus Rumberos Q Bacalao Salao
  14. Lola Flores y Antonio Gonzalez Q Meneíto Men
  15. Dolores Vargas Q A QChiQLiQPu
  16. El Noy Q El Loco
  17. El Noi Q Sí, Compay
  18. Chacho y Sus Rumbas Q El Pan y Los Dientes
  19. Maruja Garrido Q Amanecí En Tus Brazos
  20. Antonio Gonzalez Q Levantate
Release date Australia
April 15th, 2014
Label
Soul Jazz Records
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
2014
Box Dimensions (mm)
142x125x10
UPC
5026328102757
Product ID
22290117

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Help & options

Filed under...