HAVANA, Cuba.- Raíz (Root), the most recent album by the Santiaguero Septet, was presented in this city by EGREM Recordings Company and it is a trip to the roots of Cuban music.
Produced by Fernando Dewar, Alden Gonzalez and Geovanis Alcantara, the material composed of 14 tracks and two bonus tracks is devoted to Maestro Juan Formell for the 75th anniversary of his birth and to the 150 years since the birth of Sindo Garay.
Recognizing and keeping alive Cuban music was the intention of the band when conceiving the phonogram, which according to Dewar, leader of the ensemble, means a lot for the group because it is the continuity of a work where we pay homage to all the figures that in a way or another have influenced on the music of the Septet.
The CD ranges from traditional trova to son, guaracha, new trova, bolero, pacá, songo and popular dance music, with songs by Sindo Garay, Ñico Saquito, Miguel Matamoros, Arsenio Rodríguez, Ignacio Piñeiro and other more contemporary musicians like Adalberto Álvarez, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés and Juan Formell, he said.
It also includes the last recording made with Reinaldo Creagh, a prominent Cuban musician, vocalist of the Old Santiaguera Trova movement.
Important interpreters and instrumentalists accompanied the Septet in this work, including Charlie Aponte, former singer of the Puerto Rico Gran Combo; Rubén Blades, Alfredo de la Fe, pianist Arturo O'Farrill, trumpeter Nicholas Payton and saxophonist Carlos Miyares, among others.
The Santiaguero Septet, winner of a Latin Grammy Award, in the category Best Traditional Tropical Album, for the CD ¨No quiero llanto. Tributo a Los Compadres¨ marks with this work its 22nd anniversary of being founded.
Source: ACN
Previous publication A springtime fair focusing on discovery
Next publication Cuba 2017 International Book Fair opens in Havana
Related Publications
