2009-10-27, 02:09 | Link #2224 |
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Lisa Ono, Queen of Bossa Nova
Following up voice actress (seiyuu) Mayumi Suzuki's beautiful voice as the Japanese language Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid with another beautiful voice from Japan...
A sorta Brazilian version of Hikaru Utada*, singer/songwriter Lisa Ono (小野リサ, Ono Risa) was born in 1962 in São Paulo, Brazil, home to the largest community of Nikkeijin (日系人; Japanese emigrants and their descendants) in the world. At the age of ten, she moved to Japan... *Or more accurately, Hikaru Utada is sorta American version of Lisa Ono, since the latter came first. The multilingual Lisa Ono performs a couple of Brazilian bossa nova classics in her native Portuguese (with a little English thrown in the latter song), "Só Danço Samba" with Japanese jazz great Sadao Watanabe ( 渡辺貞夫, Watanabe Sadao) and perhaps the most famous bossa nova tune of all, "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema" in English; "Ipanema no Musume" [『イパネマの娘』] in Japanese). Lisa Ono (guitar, vocals) & Sadao Watanabe (alto saxophone) / Só Danço Samba (2007) Lisa Ono (vocals) / Garota de Ipanema
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2009-10-27, 06:30 | Link #2226 |
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Willie and The Hand Jive by Eric Clapton. God, everytime I hear it, it gets stuck in my head for hours and hours.
There's one song that is even worse, though. By worse I don't mean that the song sucks, it just a horrible earworm! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOt1d9NGKA0& Listen to it. |
2009-10-29, 04:01 | Link #2235 |
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Orquesta De La Luz: Hot Salsa Music from Japan
Debuting in 1990, the all-Japanese Orquesta De La Luz (Orchestra of the Light) is almost undoubtedly Japan's premier salsa band. Although it has gone through various member changes down through the years, the effervescent Nora still fronts the band as its sonera/guarachera (lead singer).
Japanese fans know their salsa music. Listen to them in video clips below clap in unison the "clave," the 3-2/2-3 Afro-Cuban rhythmic pattern which is the heartbeat of salsa music. Salsa primarily developed in New York City from Cuban musical forms like the son afrocubano and the Afro-Cuban rumba, heavily influenced by American jazz. Although its roots are Cuban music and American jazz with the late Cuban-born, naturalized American singer Celia Cruz known in Spanish as "la reina de la salsa" ("the Queen of Salsa") and "la guarachera del mundo" ("the Salsa Singer of the World"), many if not most of salsa creators have been of Puerto Rican lineage. From Tito Puente to Willie Colón to Ray Barretto to the Palmieri brothers (Eddie and Charlie), Nuyoricans (New Yorkers of Puerto Rican heritage) have played vital roles in the development of salsa music. Bandleader Johnny Pacheco and other musicians of Dominican background have also played important roles in the development of salsa music. Add in Rubén Blades of Panamá, Oscar D'León of Venezuela and so on, salsa has pretty much become the de facto representative music of Latin America excluding Portuguese-speaking Brazil, which has its own rich music and dance traditions of samba, batucada, bossa nova, capoeira, etc. And with the help of Orquesta De La Luz, salsa has become a popular music and dance form on the Asian island nation of Japan, with its very diverse and eclectic tastes in music and dance. Orquesta De La Luz / Amame Next, Orchestra De La Luz perform a couple of salsa songs strongly influenced by the Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance forms known as plena and bomba: Orquesta De La Luz / El Cumbanchero Orquesta De La Luz / Cuero Sonó And here are the authentic items themselves direct from Puerto Rico: PLENA FROM PUERTO RICO Bomba in Loíza, Puerto Rico #1 Finally, Orquesta De La Luz perform their signature tune, " Salsa Caliente del Japón" ("Hot Salsa of Japan"): Orquesta De La Luz / Salsa Caliente del Japón
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2009-10-30, 05:38 | Link #2239 |
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The African Roots of Latin Music and Japanese Latin Jazz
Obàtálá is one of the most important deities in the traditional religion of the Yoruba people in Yorubaland, which encompasses parts of the West African nations of Nigeria and Benin (formerly Dahomey). Yoruba slaves brought the traditional Yoruba religion and the worship of Obàtálá to the New World where the Yoruba religion syncretized with other African religions and Christianity (Catholicism), resulting in neo-African religions like santería (aka lukumí/lucumí) in Cuba and candomblé in Bahía, Brazil.
Discussion in English of the West African Obàtálá in Yorubaland can found on a series of videos, beginning with Part 1: OBATALA & OSUN...part 1 of 11 Discussion in Spanish of the dance for the Cuban Obatalá in santería can be found on the following video: danza de los orisha -OBATALA And here is a live concert performance of "Obatalá," a tribute to the African roots of Latin music, by the all-Japanese Latin jazz big band named Nettai Tropical Jazz Big Band (熱帯JAZZ楽団, Nettai Jazz Gakudan), the brainchild of Japanese salsa band Orchestra De La Luz founder and former bandleader Shingo "Carlos" Kanno: OBATALA 熱帯JAZZ楽団 Tropical Jazz Big Band
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