The New Latinaires
In order to bring new sounds to the dancefloor and hip listeners to our Latin jazz releases, we asked some of our favorite club-music producers to deliver tunes reflecting their influence and interest in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and Latin jazz. A series of 3 12"s followed and the music from those vinyl-only releases will be released with 4 new exclusive tunes on a full length "New Latinaires" CD/double LP in May. Some tracks are completely new while others are created out of samples from the CuBop back catalog; all are crafted with the greatest respect for the various genres of music that provided the original inspiration.
The New Latinaires album is packed with new school producers who push musical boundaries. They fuse Afro-Cuban/Bossa sounds and rhythms with cutting-edge club production. It's a culture clash reminiscent of Dizzy Gillespie's collaborations with Cuban musicians like Chano Pozo and Mario Bauza back in the 1950s that blended traditional Latin music with jazz. Just as Gillespie wouldn't have settled for simply decorating his jazz tunes with exotic rhythms, these new aficionados of the studio are well schooled in the Afro-Cuban/Brazilian music, enabling them to develop a sound that is as deep as it is funky.
In recent months, anticipation has been building for the New Latinaires compilation with the sold-out releases of three 12" singles featuring music from Jazzanova (already touted as single of the year by XLR8R), Beatless, Johnny Blas, Carl Craig and Capsule 150. This compilation will take these three and add four more previously unreleased tracks and one golden oldie to the mix.
Hailing from the UK, Beatless helped kick off this project by dropping the first 12" in the series called "Latinaire"-- a freaky, samba-style club track oozing with left field sensibility.
Jazzanova's original "Atabaque" is an amalgamation of sounds that combines Bossa beats and a back breaking bass line. "We started making music by ourselves because there weren't enough tracks and songs that were fitting in with our sets," says Jurgen Von Knoblauch of the Jazzanova collective. "We like percussive, complex and arranged tracks--Afro Cuban and Brazilian music combined with new tunes--music that you can DJ with."
Jazzanovas' second appearance on this compilation has them remixing the legendary jazz dance tune "Welcome To The Party," originally recorded by the Har You Percussion Group in the late 1960s.
Detroit's main man Carl Craig remixes CuBop conguero Johnny Blas, taking his cover of "Picadillo" into Planet E territory by combining original percussion with spacey keys and boomin' bass.
Weighing in with originals exclusively for the double album and CD are Izuru Utsumi and Bayaka, two artists from Japan whose killer music is, sadly, too hard to find in the Western Hemisphere. Utsumis' "Zum Zum" has been called his best work to date (ask Dance Music Records in Tokyo!) and Bayaka are responsible for the beautiful guitar, percussion and vocal jam "Tristesea", the compilation's only downtempo tune.
Ubiquity's own Capsule 150 provides an energetic, uptempo cut with live bass and keys called "Octopus." And Laws of Motion recording artists Modaji, who have garnered a reputation for producing cutting-edge underground jazz-fusion present "La Cosa Mas Chunga".
Finally, we couldn't leave off two original hardcore Latin jazz tracks from the Har You Percussion Group and Johnny Blas.
Club music is a sum of all parts and those include many influences, new and old. In 1999, the influence of Afro-Cuban jazz and South American music can be found in clubs around the world. The enduring legacy of Dizzy Gillespie, Brazilian acts like Azymuth or Jorge Ben, later Latin-American fusions by Eddie Palmieri and Santana are all testaments to the influences of their music. From Tokyo to London, Washington DC to Berlin, the sounds of Africa, Brazil and Cuba live on.All comments (3)
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