Gipsy Rhumba: The Original Rhythm of Gipsy Rhumba in Spain 1965-74 (2LP)

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Soul Jazz Records Presents: The Original Rhythm of Gipsy Rhumba in Spain 1965-74 - 2 x LP with 28 page booklet + FREE Download code.

Soul Jazz Records’ new release is the first album ever outside of Spain to focus on the history of Gipsy Rhumba – one of the most interesting musical culture clashes – that first took place in the early 1960s.

In the Catalan region of Spain, gipsies, primarily known as the creators of Flamenco, came up with a fascinating hybrid style – Gipsy Rhumba – which blended together Latin and Rhumba music of Cuba and the Caribbean together with their own flamenco, as well as the emerging rock’n’roll from America.

As well as a musical overview of this unique art form, the release comes with extensive contextual notes (in English and Spanish) and the photography of Jacques Leonard, who documented gipsy life in the 1960s, creating one of the most important records of their unique world in the 20th century.

Gipsy culture is the original rebel form, existing outside of ‘normal society’, a trans-migrant people who value highly the ideas of freedom and independence. Today gipsies are established in many European countries.

At the end of 19th century, gipsies who settled in Southern Spain take hold of flamenco, defined as the ‘Andalusian gipsy’ art. But it is out of the barrios of Barcelona in the North that a new genre appears in 1963: the Catalan Rhumba. A crossroads between flamenco, Caribbean music and rock’n’roll, Catalan gipsies develop a new way of playing flamenco guitar known as the ‘ventilador’, a technique that combines the strumming of guitar strings whilst the palms of the hand drum the rhythm on the body of the guitar. The guitar, the handclaps and certain songs originating from the Caribbean give birth to this new style.

The Catalan rhumba built its repertoire on Caribbean songs, especially from Cuba and Puerto Rico, but also from New York. However, its true value is how the essence of these songs were used to build a new style, often with just a guitar and some handclaps.

In the 1970s a new generation of gipsy rhumba emerges, as the scene is enriched with a variety of styles, and keyboards, electric guitars, funky basses and wind sections appear. The vocalists start using more flamenco cadences.

Track Listing:

Disc 1:

A1. Rabbit Rumba Q Nuestro Ayer

A2. El Noi Q Labios Morenos

A3. Los Gitanos Polinais Q En El Fondo Del Mar De Lima

A4. Antonio Gonzalez Q Sarandonga

A5. Peret y Sus Gitanos Q La Fiesta No Es Para Feos

B1. El Gitano Portugues Q Fuí A Bahía

B2. Maruja Garrido Q Che Camino

B3. Juncal y Sus Calistros Q Tequila

B4. Moncho y Su Wawanko Gitano Q Orisa

B5. Peret y Sus Gitanos Q Voy, Voy

Disc 2:

A1. Dolores Vargas Q Anana Hip

A2. Chango Q El Guapo

A3. Ramonet y Sus Rumberos Q Bacalao Salao

A4. Lola Flores y Antonio Gonzalez Q Meneíto Men

A5. Dolores Vargas Q A QChiQLiQPu

B1. El Noy Q El Loco

B2. El Noi Q Sí, Compay

B3. Chacho y Sus Rumbas Q El Pan y Los Dientes

B4. Maruja Garrido Q Amanecí En Tus Brazos

B5. Antonio Gonzalez Q Levantate                                               

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