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Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura Anthology

by Havana Cultura

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The release of a triple vinyl set with a selection of twenty-three emblematic tracks celebrates eight years of musical research and experimentation featuring Cuba’s musical avant-garde under the curation of Gilles Peterson with the backing of the Havana Cultura project.

In 2008, DJ and globetrotter Gilles Peterson was approached by the melomaniac at the helm of Havana Cultura – an initiative to showcase and support Cuban creativity by Cuban rum maker Havana Club –, inviting him to Cuba to check out Havana’s underground music scene with a view to making an album. While some might associate Cuba simply with salsa or Buena Vista Social Club, there was a new generation of artists teeming with new sounds, waiting for an opportunity to reveal their talent to the world.

That first trip was the beginning of what has now been an eight-year-long collaboration between Peterson, his Brownswood Recordings label and Havana Club’s cultural platform. It first resulted in the release of Havana Cultura: New Cuba Sound, an acclaimed double album that included original productions and a compilation of existing tracks across a range of genres reflecting contemporary Cuba’s musical diversity: jazz, hip hop, reggaeton and plenty in between.

From there, the first edition of Havana Cultura Sessions, a solo release from Danay Suarez – a standout talent in the sessions for New Cuba Sound – came next, followed by Havana Cultura Remixed, joining the dots – with remixes from Louis Vega and 4 Hero – between Cuba and global club culture. After that, 2011’s Havana Cultura: The Search Continues was the next attempt to dig deep into the different corners of the island’s contemporary music scene. Joining Peterson on that trip was dubstep pioneer Mala, who took recordings and sessions with Cuban artists as the basis for Mala in Cuba, an album marrying together UK soundsystem culture with the deep rhythmic possibilities of Cuba.

On Havana Cultura Mix – The Soundclash!, the project was opened up to fledgling electronic producers through a remix competition for unsigned beatmakers. Top entries were chosen from mixes submitted online, with winners being flown to Cuba to collaborate with some of the island’s finest artists. The Havana Cultura Sessions EP by Daymé Arocena, which followed, was the first solo release by a vocalist and choir leader who had been too young to record when Peterson and the Havana Cultura team had first encountered her stunning voice.

Finally, 2016 saw the release of Havana Club Rumba Sessions – Peterson returned to Cuba with old friend Crispin Robinson, who guided him through the rumba traditions running deep through all of the music which has followed it. The album saw the three central rhythms to rumba – guaguancó, yambú and columbia – remixed and reimagined by a diverse range of producers from around the world.

With a new album by Arocena on the way, the Havana Cultura album series continues to be a vital route into the best that the contemporary Cuban music scene has to offer.

“At Havana Club, we’re proud of our Cuban origins. Havana is one of the world’s most buoyant cultural scenes – particularly when it comes to music – and we were eager to give a bigger voice to a generation of young artists whose work is decidedly modern, yet firmly anchored in the richness of Cuba’s musical tradition,” explains François Renié, who runs the initiative at Havana Club.

“The Havana Cultura project gave me the chance to go deep in a country that had intrigued me ever since I was digging for Latin records as a young DJ,” recalls Gilles. “From the first release up to now, it’s been about taking that spirit of the Buena Vista Social Club to show a new generation of artists and opening it up to as big an audience as possible. Picking the tracks for this anthology, I wanted to show modern Cuba alongside the remixes, putting it in the context of a global club culture.”

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released November 18, 2016

Tracklist

Vol. 1
1. Soy Cubano – Kerkstra feat. Etian Brebaje Man & Sexto Sentido
2. Lagrimas de Soledad (No Existen Palabras) – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Danay Suárez
3. Arroz Con Pollo – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band
4. La Mulata Abusadora – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Telmary & Elain Morales
5. Rezando - Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band
6. Calle F – Mala
7. Roforofo Fight – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Mayra Caridad Valdés
8. La Rumba Experimental (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix) - Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band
9. Cuando Ya No Este - Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Danay Suárez
10. La Revolución del Cuerpo Pt.1 (Skinner's Owiny Sigoma Mix) – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band
11. Yemaya – Chillum Trio feat Coki & Yeni
12. Ay – Arema Arega

Vol. 2
1.Espera Mi Gente - Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Danay Suárez & Ogguere
2. Orisa – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Dreiser & Sexto Sentido
3. Check La Rima – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Los Aldeanos, Danay Suárez & Silvito El Libre
4. La Plaza (Poirier Remix) - Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band
5. La Revolución del Cuerpo Pt.1 – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Ogguere, Danay Suárez & Obsesión
6. Ipacuba – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band feat. Danay Suárez, Francis Del Río, Vince Vella & Julio Padrón
7. Traigo – Seu Seppie feat. El Niche
8. Yambu (Daisuke Tanabe and Yosi Horikawa Remix) - Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band
9. En Lo Profundo – Danay Suárez & Roberto Fonseca
10. El Ruso – Daymé Arocena
11. Rezando (Michel Cleis Remix) - Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band

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