World Music

We only listen the highest quality melodies in "World Music". We started this closing week show and this penultimate Friday of 2012 with two emblematic rhythms of Mexican music. We begin with Sinaloa band and the melody El zopilote mojado of the repertoire of Banda Sinaloense Hermanos Escamilla. Then we listened to Juan Cirerol from Mexicali, who handled the "northern folk", with the song Eres tan cruel, included on his album " Haciendo Leña " (2011). We continue in Mexico, exactly the Zapotec latitudes with the song La Martiniana, by the composer and poet from Oaxaca: Andrés Henestrosa, who among his contributions, he has also studied the Zapotec language and transcribed the Latin alphabet.

Fridays are for dancing, so for this segment is believed suitable to play this bunch of adrenaline. In Colombia, we hear the tecnocumbia and fusion music group Bomba Estéreo with the song Ponte bomb, cover of Pump up the jam from the 90s by the House and Dance Belgian band; Technotronic. After, from Cuba, we hear A Maria Rafaela in the rhythm called "Columbia", one of the forms of Cuban rumba, and the group formed in 1961: Yoruba Andabo. Finally we traveled to the Republic of Mali with the song Kanawa, by the voice of the singer and guitarist of ethnic music: Habib Koite, accompanied by the African band Bamada.

We lowered the intensity with the Irish Celtic music band founded in 1963: Chieftains, and the melody Lily of the best. In 2010, this Irish traditional music band released the album San Patricio, with which honored the anonymous battalion that fought alongside the Mexican army in the war against the United States from 1846 to 1848. Renowned Mexicans artists participated in that album like Lila Downs, Los Tigres del Norte and the recently deceased Chavela Vargas.

We started an eclectic acoustic sound with the American progressive rock group Skye and the song Powerful.  Then we enjoyed two Flemish songs; the first is titled Las palmeras  by the voice of the Spanish singer Martirio, who is known for fusing the Andalusian copla and flamenco, with a touch of jazz, tango, rock and guaracha. Finally we travel with Nostalgias, which is part of the album Buika (2006), by the Afro-Spanish singer Concha Buika. And to give a twist, we closed this segment meditating with Passages, performed by the musician and sitar player Ravi Shankar and the American minimalist music composer Phillip Glass.

In the last segment, the fire was not absent. In countdown and following the salsa rhythm we listened Panamericana, played by one of the greatest exponents of the tenor saxophone, the Cuban resident of New Jersey, Paquito de Rivera. After Japan we danced to the rhythm of Perfect future by the Japanese ska band: Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. In the penultimate place, we received the visit of the jazz Dominican pianist Michel Camilo with the melody Suite. To conclude, we listened Born in Chicago by The Blues Brothers and finally Homenaje Elio Reve, one of the most legendary Cuban bands, Maravillas de Florida.