Orquesta Anacaona
Ten Sisters Of Rhythm: Film, Images & Music DVD
DVD
(Universal/Pimienta 60558),
Released 2003;
Editor's Pick:
This is a wonderful documentary (two, really) of the infamous a girl Cuban dance band popular since the 1930s. Contains vintage clips, photos and audio as well as recent interviews, in Cuba, with original band members. It is wonderful to see an 80-ish Ondina Castro pick up her trumpet and play with feeling.
With special guest Frank Emilio Flynn.
Excellent quality, well produced, and highly recommended. (BP, 2003-03-09)
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This DVD is made up of two parts. The first is called Havana Girl Orchestra - A Cuban family chronicle which is a documentary film that runs 45 minutes. The second part is called Ten Sisters of Rhythm which is 40 minutes of band music by Anacaona. Picture this: Havana 1932. In the open-air cafes, the aries libres, seven female musicians caused a utter furor. With their enchanting smiles the girls, some still under age, charmed their audience with son music, whilst ten year old Millo passionately beat the bongos. What a scandal! But the music, which the bourgeois society of Cuba had long viewed as primitive and vulgar due to its African roots, enthralled the audience. That was the beginning of son's path to worldwide success. ANACAONA - which is what the seven sisters called themselves, after a famous native American woman who resisted the Spanish invaders in the Caribbean - was to go down in history as the first female Cuban son septet. And more than 50 years later ANACAONA was declared part of Cuba's "national heritage", because the sisters of the Castro family made up the oldest women's orchestra on Cuba and performed in public up until 1989.
This DVD by Pa'ti Pa'mi/Termidor Music Publishing is the first to document the musical bandwidth of the ANACAONA female orchestra with son pieces from the 1930s right up to romantic bolero songs and wild mambos from the 50s. It appears parallel with the publication of the biography of Alicia Castro, the last leader of the orchestra, published by ECON. It is thanks to the daughter of Millo, the outstanding percussionist of ANACAONA, that the unique history was now able to be documented. The journalist, ethnologist and film author Ingrid Kummels has for many years worked on this piece of musical heritage.
Special guest: Frank Emilio Flynn.
Language choices: English, German, French, Spanish & Italian.
Total time 85 minutes.
Song titles include:
Mambo Habanero
Hoy
Cicuta Tibia
Maleficio
Espiritu Burlon
Cielo Y Sol
Mambo Mambi
Besame Aqui
Quiereme Y Veras
Musicians include:
Graciela Perez Lead vocals and claves
Concepcion "Chuchito" Castro Back-up vocals and guitar
Ada Castro Tres
Alicia Castro Back-up vocals and bass
Argimira "Millo" Castro Bongo
Olga "Bola" Castro Maracas
Ondina Castro Trumpet
Berta Rodriguez Vocals on cut 2
Frank Emilio Flynn Piano on cut 2; playing an out-of -tune piano.
Alicia Castro, Olga Castro, Xiomara Castro, And Yolanda Castro Vocal quartet on cut 9
Berta Cabrera Bass
Isabel "Beba" Alvarez Bongos
Elia O'Reilly Vocals
Hortensia Palacios Piano
Evelia Permuy Vocals
Delia Valdes Piano
Anita Permuy Vocals and guitar
Ana-Maria Garcia, Nery Landa, Moraima Secada, Haydee Portuondo, Omara Portuondo, Anita Isacc, Carmita Campos, Amneris Canovas, Berta Rodriguez, Africa Domech And Lili Conde Back-Up vocals
Category: Dvd
=> Documentary
=> Cuba
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