Harold Lopez-Nussa - El Viaje - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2020 . Imagine yourself walking down the streets of Havana hearing music from people's homes, parties being thrown and paladares or night clubs filled with patrons dancing this is the soul of Cuba. Havana-based pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa's vibrant and spirited third recording for Mack Avenue Records captures those moments with a marriage of jazz and Cuban pop music, joyfully standing up for that ambitious vision. Featuring drummer Ruy Adrián López-Nussa, bassist Julio César González and trumpeter Mayquel González, InchTe Lo DijeInch boasts a number of special guests, including Afro-Cuban funk superstar Cimafunk, French accordionist Vincent Peirani, famed Cuban reggaeton vocalist Randy Malcom, and vocalist Kelvis Ochoa, to realize it's picturesque look at Cuban culture. Album Tracks 1. Habana Sin Sábanas 2. Te Lo Dije 3. The Windmills of Your Mind 4. Lila's Mambo 5. El Buey Cansao 6. Timbeando 7. Un Día de Noviembre 8. Jocosa Guajira 9. Jazztón 10. Sobre El Atelier 11. Van Van Meets New Orleans

Fans of Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa's 2016 disc, El Viaje (Mack Avenue), certainly should check out his new album on the same tag Un Día Cualquiera. The title of the previous disc translates to The Journey, and on this new outing, his artistic evolution continues - but in a trio setting. He recorded the album at Boston's WGBH Studios with his younger brother Ruy Adrian Harold López-Nussa (drums, percussion) and Gaston Joya (bass). The album's title translates to Just Another Day, and in press materials, Harold explains the title's significance InchThe idea is to put the music and the trio together in a studio and just play, the way we three do every day, any day-like a concert in the living room of your house.Inch Album Tracks 1. Cimarrón 03 51 2. Danza de los Ñañigos 04 29 3. Una Tarde Cualquiera en Paris (To Bebo Valdes) 04 48 4. Preludio (To José Juan) 03 28 5. Elegua 05 06 6. Hialeah 03 32 7. Ma Petite Dans la Boulangerie 03 56 8. Y la Negra Bailaba 04 01 9. Congo Total / El Cumbanchero 03 39 10. Contigo en la Distancia 05 47 11. Mi Son Cerra'o 04 47

No matter your age or station, Supermodels is the sort of record you can hear yourself in. Claud's engrossing and poignant second album is a confident diary of the mercury of life and love in one's early 20s, whether it's the self-doubt that creeps through it's tunes or the place of compromise they try to find. It's an exacting map of the emotional and logistical vicissitudes they'd encountered in their early 20s. Fissures in romances and friendships, pressures of recording careers, the casualties of growing up Each of these 13 songs is another articulated diary entry, threaded together with scant regard for genre and with the roller-coaster of feeling that gives each tune such specific gravity.These are familiar topics for Claud, covering some of the same terrain as 2021's Super Monster. But there is a newfound confidence to the ideas here, rendered in structures and hooks that do not equivocate as they move from frowning folk to boisterous pop to twisted piano curios. Where Supermodels was rendered mostly in their childhood bedroom, this was cut in a place of their own, with a team of confidants and collaborators building them into resplendent productions.Supermodels takes it's name from InchScrewdriver.Inch InchYou caught me looking at photographs of supermodels,Inch they sing, voice rising slowly over the elegiac line penned on that free and broken piano. InchTrying not to cry when I look back at myself.Inch It's a staggering moment, a reminder of the ways we're all working to stop seeing ourselves as less than and not equal to, to beat back a dozen different insecurities that we try to store in the deepest recesses of our facade. But Claud doesn't hide anything on Supermodels. They are kernels of despair, redemption, and, ultimately, insight, here to remind us we're neither the first nor the last to face these blues and keep going. Album Tracks 1. Crumbs