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Sexteto Habanero

Maldita timidéz / No me desprecies mujer

♫ Victor 78510 — Cuban son recorded in 1925 ♫

Two early recordings by Sexteto Habanero, one of the defining ensembles in the history of Cuban son. This Victor 78 preserves the group during the 1920s, when the sexteto became a central force in Cuban popular music and recordings helped carry its sound to a wider audience.

A historical document for collectors of Cuban music, early Latin American recordings and the son tradition.

◆ Details

Artist: Sexteto Habanero

Titles: Maldita timidéz / No me desprecies mujer

Composer, Side A: Carlos Valdéz Brito, as printed on the label

Label: Victor

Catalogue number: 78510

Side references: 78510-A / 78510-B

Format: 25 cm / 10-inch shellac record, 78 rpm, double-sided

Recorded: Cuba, 1925 — 29 October, Side A; 2 November, Side B

Genre: Cuban popular music; Latin

Style: Son cubano — both labels identify the music as “Son”

Language: Spanish

♫ Tracklist

• Side A: Maldita timidéz — Carlos Valdéz Brito
  Son — Victor 78510-A
• Side B: No me desprecies mujer
  Son — Victor 78510-B

The titles and the Side A composer credit follow the original labels, including their historical spelling and accents. No composer is credited on the Side B label.

Emerging in Havana around 1920, Sexteto Habanero helped establish the classic son sextet as a model for Cuban popular music. The combination of tres, guitar, bass, bongos, claves, maracas and voices gave the ensemble a distinctive balance of melody, rhythm and vocal interplay.

Son developed in eastern Cuba and spread across the island, becoming increasingly prominent during the 1920s. Its syncopated rhythms and interaction between solo singing and chorus made it equally suited to social dancing and expressive storytelling. Phonograph records played an important role in bringing this music to listeners beyond its local settings.

Habanero's importance lies in the way it helped give this tradition a widely recognised ensemble sound. These early Victor sides belong to the period when the sexteto was shaping the language of Cuban dance music, before the expansion of the format with trumpet into the septeto.

For today's collector, the interest is both musical and historical: a small vocal and instrumental ensemble captures a formative stage of one of Cuba's most influential popular traditions.

◆ Personnel

• Sexteto Habanero — vocal and instrumental ensemble

The labels credit the ensemble collectively. Individual musicians are not listed here because a complete personnel attribution for these particular sessions has not been independently verified.

◇ Technical details

Recording process: Electrical recording

Speed: 78 rpm

Record size: 25 cm / 10 inches

Material: Shellac

Configuration: Double-sided

Catalogue number: 78510

Side A dead wax: I 78510A VF

Side B dead wax: H 78510B VF

Session matrix references in the Díaz-Ayala discography: Xve 77, Side A; Xve 88, Side B

Company printed on labels: VICTOR TALKING MACHINE CO.

Company location printed on labels: Camden, N. J.

The dead-wax inscriptions above reproduce the supplied reading of this copy. The session matrix references are separate discographical identifiers.

◆ Condition

Visual condition: EX- — Extremely slight surface marks.

Playback: Plays NM.

Please examine the photographs for the appearance of the labels and the visible record surfaces.

◆ Buy with confidence

• Visual condition and playback are described separately.
• Original label wording and supplied dead-wax inscriptions are carefully documented.
• Recording dates are supported by the Díaz-Ayala discography held at Florida International University.
• Careful handling and packaging specifically designed for fragile shellac records.
• A historical recording of interest to collectors of Cuban son, Sexteto Habanero and early Latin American music.

◇ Shipping

• Secure and robust packaging specifically suitable for fragile shellac records.
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