** UPDATED RELEASE DATE: JULY 30 2021 on PETALUMA RECORDS **
“Changüí: The Sound of Guantánamo” is a Deluxe 3 Disc box set of brand new, location recordings from the Guantánamo region of Cuba.
Pre-save the album here: ffm.to/changui-boxset
FEATURING:
- Introduction by Arturo O’Farrill (Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra)
- Liner notes by box set producer Gianluca Tramontana, with additional essays by Changüí historians - José Cuenca Sosa, Gabriel Rojas Perez & Benjamin Lapidus, Ph.D.
- 50 track listing with full lyrics and their translations
- Deluxe silkscreened box and full-color book with over 100 original photographs
Between 2017 and 2019 music journalist Gianluca Tramontana traveled to the Guantánamo region of Cuba and immersed himself in a 150-plus-year-old culture of rural, riff-based, foot- stomping, largely improvised music. Through his journey into changüí music he recorded these musicians in their homes, backyards, and porches. The results are three and a half hours of music played for the sole purpose of making you dance ’til you drop.