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Format Details: Cd+DVD / CD+DVD
Release Date: 11 July 2025
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 749531009273
Genres: World Music Cuban
Description
Six years after his last release, Juan de Marcos, architect of the famous Buenavista Social Club sessions, comes back with an Afro-Cuban All Stars' new production, Viva Mexico, an eclectic and interactive live album based on excerpts of a concert performed at the Cervantino International Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico, an explosive showcase of danceable music, capturing a special moment exactly as it happened.
Viva Mexico! is the audio portion of this combined CD/DVD production, 'Absolutely Live II'. The album features five distinct Cuban genres in eight tracks, ranging from Afro-Cuban Jazz on tunes like Yaimara's Groove, where Havana meets New Orleans, to 1950s style Pilon, and includes a new version of Ibrahim Ferrer's classic hit 'Candela', which first reached international audiences on the original Buena Vista Social Club album.
The accompanying DVD 'Live in Maryland' is a video take on five songs. Laura en el Paraiso, written by Juan de Marcos, is a set of Afro-Cuban jazz which opens full band with the piano playing the melodic lines. A full binary development leads to a complicated and asymmetric Ostinato, which serves as the foundation for several solos. On the Road Again is a cha-cha-cha version of the Santa Maria Sabastian/Bernard Lavilliers classic. Performance ends in a kind of Cuban party with the explosive traditional rhythms.
Dubbed "the Quincy Jones of Cuban Music" by Down Beat Magazine, due to his creative approach to different Cuban and international genres. Juan de Marcos's work received the inaugural Womex award in 1999, and his many albums, including his 1997 debut recording, 'A Toda Cuba le Gusta', are considered seminal classics in the new millennium renaissance of Afro Cuban music.
Tracklisting
Rick Braun
Opium
Peter White
Moya Brennan & Cormac de Barra
Laurence Juber
Adam Hawley
Afro Cuban All Stars
Adam Hawley
