(rumba, cubana) Pedro Martinez & Roman Diaz - The Routes of Rumba - 2008, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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Pdero Martinez, Roman Diaz / The Routes of Rumba. Rumbos de la Rumba
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Pedro Martínez: Born and raised in Havana, Martínez began performing at age 11, playing the conga drums and singing in comparsa groups in school. He performed with the most important rumba groups of the time: Yoruba Andabo, Obba Ilu, Tata Guines, Changuito, Anga, and many others. In 2000, Martínez won First Place in the Thelonious Monk Institute's Afro/Latin Jazz Hand Drum competition at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Since then, Martí¬nez has performed with top artists including Paquito D'Rivera, Giovanni Hidalgo, Patato, Candido Camero, and Horacio "El Negro" Hernández. He is a founding member of the popular New York City-based group Yerba Buena, and is also performing with the Mark Weinstein ensemble. Pedrito Martinez endorses LP music products.
Román Díaz: Born and raised in Havana, Dí¬az is a master percussionist from Havana, where he was trained by elders in the fine arts of classic Afro-Cuban musical traditions. In the USA, he organized a performance ensemble called "Omi Odara," a Lukumi phrase meaning "pure water," or "water that blesses," because "there is nothing more pure than water." They perform ritual Santeria, Abakuá, and Palo Monte music, as well as continue the rumba and Son lineages of Arsenio Rodriguez, Chano Pozo, and Ignacio Pineiro's Septeto Nacional, all of whom drew upon Cuba's African heritage in their music. Diaz's ensemble is distinguished for respecting these traditions through artful and passionate performances based on deep ritual knowledge.

The Routes of Rumba/Rumbos de la Rumba is the result of my collaboration with music virtuosos Pedro Martí¬nez and Román Dí¬az. It is a conceptual musical journey about Rumba's performance culture understood as a set of socio-historical relations. Each track is located within a different psychic space to evoke a sense of walking in la Havana, or circulating in the African Diaspora, or feeling caught between love and conflict, between the secular and the sacred.
Soon after their arrival to New York, I saw Pedrito and Roman performing at La Esquina Habanera, a well-established Cuban Rumba space in Union City, New Jersey. This project is their first recording in the U.S. as a duo elaborating the entire music in the Rumba warapachanguera style. Most Rumba records are performed by established ensembles, or what is known as a "ven tu," a jam session organized by invitation. This work however traces Pedrito and Román's musical synergy.
This project is also about Pedrito and Román's encounter with the diversity of NYC rumberos. We invited Alfredo Díaz "Pescao" who arrived to the U.S. in 1980 with the Mariel Exodo. Pescao's contribution was not only his voice and original compositions, but his witty sense of humor bringing the street and solar energy into the project, the elements of el ambiente de la Rumba: El Brete (neigborhood gossip), Salud Estomacal (on culinary matters), and El Monumento, a tribute honoring Manuel Martí¬nez Olivera "El Llanero." Pedrito, Román and Pescao performed together these three numbers, creating a sparkling call and response dynamic necessary in a good Rumba. Thus this recording connects two Rumba generations in the Diaspora, Pedrito and Román's, who were entirely raised in Revolutionary Cuba and departed during the Special Period, and Pescao and Manuel's generation who grew up in-between the Batista and Castro regimes and left during the Mariel boatlift. Two migratory generations still connected through Rumba as their common denominator and epistemological framework.
Thus this project is invested in Rumba's multiple trajectories and layers to demonstrate the presence of history and memory, as they conflate momentarily within Rumba's contemporary sound, "lo antaño con lo moderno." (Roman Díaz) While Rumba is a highly intellectual, emotional and spiritual, it is also about street culture, just as one walks alone through the asphalt. Thus where there is rumba, there is controversy, gossip and poetic conspiracies.

Pedro Martínez - musical director, percussion, coro, lead vocals (#2,5,6,8,10), quinto (#7);
Ogduardo "Román" Díaz - musical director, percussion, coro;
Alfredo "Pescao" Díaz - lead vocals (#4,7,9);
Ileana Santamaría, Maribel Garcia Soto - coro.