{"id":11931,"date":"2022-08-18T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=11931"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:33:12","slug":"panorama-julio-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-julio-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"July Overview: Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/\">Magazine AMPM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cuba is stranded in a sea of worsening problems. The electricity crisis is unsustainable, and all the provinces of the country, except Havana, suffer blackouts of almost 12 hours a day as a result of the malfunction of thermoelectric plants and the shortage of fuel, with the economic crisis, the embargo against Cuba and the poor government management as background. To try to balance this situation, they decided that the capital would also begin to be affected with what they called a \u201csolidarity\u201d blackout planning (with the rest of the provinces). Meanwhile, dengue, covid-19 or &quot;the flu that knocks you down&quot; coexist with us during this infernal summer, activating another booster of vaccines for the population and forcing us once again to use masks in closed or crowded places; all this while prices continue to skyrocket, public transport almost does not exist and the lack of basic necessities\u2026 has us exhausted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As if that were not enough, this month we lost C\u00e9sar <i>puppy<\/i> Pedroso, founder and director of the Cuban dance music group Pupy y los que Son Son. There is no solution in sight, but you have to move on, as musicians do who do not stop releasing music.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Write down these recommendations and discover what Cuba sounds like today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: I Missed You Too!\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2LZvS0VrpNuJyfW7LzchAR?si=PJBOzRwbSh2gt0AsIQCcGw&#038;nd=1&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chucho Vald\u00e9s has released a new album with Paquito D&#039; Rivera, a \u201cbrutal\u201d duo that has been somehow united by music for more than 60 years. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I missed you too <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2022) is the record reunion that both musicians owed each other for a long time, because throughout their lives they have played a lot together, although they spent a long time without doing so. The album has seven emblematic songs, some composed by Chucho (composer, pianist) and others by Paquito (composer, clarinettist and saxophonist) throughout their careers; in the case of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Maj\u00e1 de Vento<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by both, and includes versions of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pac Man<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by Hilario Duran and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The day you Love Me <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Carlos Gardel. An album made with good taste, using the jazz sextet format, and in which we find all those harmonic melodies and rhythms that are synthesized in Latin jazz and Cuban music: afro, son, song and jazz are combined here in a masterful way. An album to remember the musical past of Cuba and the future to come. Dafnis Prieto (drums), Diego Urcola (trumpet), Jos\u00e9 A. Gola (double bass) and Roberto Vizca\u00edno Jr. (percussion) collaborated on the recording.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MORE RELEASES<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Black Dog\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/00bQAZBpRQ3H6Lwud851Ux?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>Rxnde Akosta<\/b><b>\u2014<\/b> <b><i>Black Dog: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to meet the Cuban rapper, this is the right song with the perfect symbiosis of heartfelt lyrics, melodies and jazz accompaniment, developed through the timbres of the tenor sax, piano and electronic samples. \u201cAKG quiet type, more person than rapper\u201d, confirms it several times to tell us who he is and where he comes from. End with a snippet of the topic <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The entire sites<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by NG La Banda, nothing more to say. Everything is very clear here.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Songs for Shadows\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/29Hqi6PpSUe2vTjtqFqc3R?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>white noise <\/b><b>\u2014 <\/b><b><i>Songs for shadows: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Cuban indie rock band has released its first full album with 10 songs. Until now, little by little each month, they had released on informal platforms some <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">singles <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that make up this phonogram and that come here remastered.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many demons and fairies walk over and alongside the songs on this album. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shadows, The Resistance,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tear out the song<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They scream truth. If you want to get a little closer to the band, check this out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/suena-ruido-blanco-con-maquinas-dormidas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 which we published a few months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Nomads\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2sRDf3fnjlqAfHv2hSHgnc?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>AL2 The Villager and Raymond Daniel <\/b><b>\u2014 <\/b><b><i>Nomads:<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What kind of album has AL2 scored, the Cuban rapper living in the United States, together with Raymond Daniel, Cuban musician, producer and guitarist also living in Miami. A phonogram of 14 songs between ballads, boleros, funky, afro, electronic sounds, reggaeton mixed with timba and son, good hip hop in every way. Messages of peace, love, honesty, a lot of Cuban identity. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freedom,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stay<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are some of the topics that engage with your <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">flow<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> violent.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Happy End\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2o4YntTy9HQaaQfVOyC4Rl?si=QHS9fR7ST9SZ-6UJ1b4UHw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>Diego Hedez and Marcos Morales <\/b><b>\u2014<\/b> <b><i>The Happy End<\/i><\/b><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very few people play free jazz in Cuba, and these two boys belonging to the new generation of jazz players on the island are one of the few exceptions. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Happy End<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a project that was idealized a few years ago and today results in an EP of five totally improvised songs<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was recorded in a session <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">live <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on PM Records and there, in the heat of the recording, original songs were born with the marked style of both musicians. There is a lot of virtuosity and organized thought here, a combination that hardly fails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>MORE CULTURE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hip-Hop Festival recently concluded <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rhyme Love and Poetry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which took place during the first three days of August and which invited the team of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Magazine AM:PM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to talk about our publications related to the world of hip-hop and rap, and about the sociocultural processes that develop these styles within the Cuban urban music scene. On the other hand, after two years on hiatus due to the pandemic, the sixteenth edition of the Gibara FIC Film Festival took place from August 2 to 6 in the province of Holgu\u00edn. The contest had the participation of more than 15 countries and a varied program. Musically, they had the luxury of having Alexander Abreu and Havana D&#039; Primera at the closing event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Por Magazine AMPM Cuba est\u00e1 varada en un mar de problemas que se agravan. La crisis electroenerg\u00e9tica es insostenible, y todas las provincias del pa\u00eds, excepto La Habana, sufren apagones de casi 12 horas diarias como consecuencia del mal funcionamiento de las termoel\u00e9ctricas y el desabastecimiento de combustible, con la crisis econ\u00f3mica, el embargo a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1514,"featured_media":11903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8172],"tags":[1320,462,8875,5806,1323,8335,9362],"coauthors":[8171],"class_list":["post-11931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faro","tag-al2","tag-chucho-valdes","tag-marcos-morales","tag-paquito-drivera","tag-raymond-daniel","tag-ruido-blanco","tag-rxnde-akosta"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Cuba_panorama_julio-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C548&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11961,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931\/revisions\/11961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11931"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}