Havananza!
European Tour October - November 2009
Juan Kemell y La Barriada from Cuba!
La Barriada comes to Europe with the tour "Havananza".
La Barriada’s salsa is incredibly danceable and known and appreciated by salseros all over Europe.
La Barriada has 11 musicians on stage, and a total of 13 people on tour.
”La Barriada is one of the most well-rehearsed bands I have listened to and seen from Cuba, with a modern and fresh sound, and a rhythm section that is steaming with energy and new thinking. One of the group’s strongest sides is the three lead singers who sing, entertain, and make the concert into a real show. La Barriada is pure and simple energy of Afro-Cuban rhythms with tasteful popular features.”
(Janne Bogdan, producer at Soneros Records)
YouTube: La Barriada
Juan Kemell y La Barriada’s Havananza: The Making
La Barriada’s “Havananza”, released 2008, was Best of 2008 Editors Pick Award in the on-line magazine Descarga.com—Where Latin Music Lives: www.descarga.com. From the review: “…Kemell’s band has the energy of the best timba orchestras, leavened with salsa, and it swings heavily. The singer, Yury Tejeda, can really rock, and the coros, constantly changing, make each piece epic…the arrangements are pretty nearly dance floor genius, with the singing constantly talking back to the coros, and the rhythm section charging forward, unstoppable… This is the best Cuba can offer, with no apologies, or excuses, or missteps, and it’s hard to believe that a better recording will show up with urban Cuban dance music…Again, I can’t imagine anything better showing up this year.”
Full review of Havananza by Peter Watrous at http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/22847.20?wBKYKeVy;;94
Material and information (CD, DVD, press kit, photos, etc.) on request.
Bookings through Inger Pettersson in Sweden.
