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Bad Mouth

By Conjure

Label: American Clave
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: Mo Ku Lana, Mo Jinde Loni; Conjuring a Calm Between Wars, On a War Such Things Happen, He Picked a Fight With the Haitians, For Dancer, Bad Mouth, Tokyo Woman Blues. CD2: Go to Jazz, Louisiana Red, At the Azabu Cafe, medley: Jack Johnson/Skirt Dance, Prayer to Earth.

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Conjure: Bad Mouth

Read "Bad Mouth" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Musical director Kip Hanrahan instigates some of the most visionary, funky, bluesy modern world music amalgams on record with Bad Mouth, alongside his sonic congregation, Conjure. He assembled the group in 1984 to set writer Ishmael Reed's poety to music, on both a self-titled debut and a second outing, Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon ...

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Kip Hanrahan: Pinero

Read "Pinero" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

This is the soundtrack album to Leon Ichaso's biopic of Puerto Rican street poet Miguel Pinero, maybe best known for his play about prison life, “Short Eyes. The film itself was described this way in a New York Times review: “The movie, a flashy montage, which jumps around in time and alternates between color and black ...

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Robby & Negro At The Third World War (La Timba No es Como Ayer)

By Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez

Label: American Clave
Released: 2005
Track listing: Medley: Sympathy for the Devil/El Cielo; 3 for Africa; Un Golpecito Na

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Tango Contemporaneo

By Astor Piazzolla

Label: American Clavé
Released: 2005

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Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez & Robby Ameen: Robby & Negro At The Third World War (La Timba No es Como Ayer)

Read "Robby & Negro At The Third World War (La Timba No es Como Ayer)" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez and Robby Ameen pack a whole lot into this collaboration. The prime beat comes from Latin music, but there is hip-hop, classical, and jazz as well. How does it all fit in? Just perfectly, thank you! The different strands go to make a compact body which the players get into ...

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Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez/Robby Ameen: Robby & Negro At The Third World War (La Timba No es Como Ayer)

Read "Robby & Negro At The Third World War (La Timba No es Como Ayer)" reviewed by Michael McCaw

by Michael McCaw

Have you ever heard a salsa version of “Sympathy for the Devil ? With the piano carrying the melody and a myriad of percussion instruments forming the swaggering beat? No matter what preconceptions or feelings you have towards the original, it's hard not to find yourself moving with the opening track on Robby & Negro at ...


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