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EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales) is Cuba's state recording company, founded in 1964 after the Revolution nationalized all private recording labels. Its main facility, Estudios Areíto in Havana, is where virtually every important Cuban recording from the Revolution era was made.
History
Before the Revolution, Cuba had a vibrant commercial recording industry with labels like Panart, Puchito, and the local operations of RCA and Columbia. After 1959, these were nationalized and merged into EGREM, which held a monopoly on recording in Cuba for decades.
Estudios Areíto
The Areíto studios became the legendary recording space of post-Revolution Cuban music. Their distinctive room sound — the slightly warm, roomy acoustic of the tracking room — can be heard on recordings from Los Van Van, NG La Banda, Irakere, and hundreds of other essential Cuban records.
The Buena Vista Social Club album (1997) was recorded here, bringing the studios to international attention.
Significance
EGREM's catalog is the archive of Cuban music under the Revolution: every major timba"> Timba band, every classical recording, every folkloric ensemble. Because of the US embargo, this catalog was long inaccessible internationally, which contributed to the relative obscurity of Cuban music outside the country — and made the Buena Vista Social Club's international success all the more striking.
Timba is the music this site is dedicated to exploring. It emerged as a distinct genre in the late 1980s and crystallized in the early 1990s — born in a moment of social crisis, built on the full accumulated history of Cuban music, and still evolving today.
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Lees meer >La Rumba es la más arraigada en lo africano de todas las formas de música y danza cubanas — nacida en las calles, los patios y los muelles de La Habana y Matanzas a finales del siglo XIX, sin instrumentos europeos, sin ambiente de salón y sin pretensión alguna de decoro europeo.
Lees meer >El Songo es el puente directo entre la música cubana tradicional y la timba. Desarrollado por Los Van Van a principios de los años 70, recableó la música popular cubana al absorber el funk, el rock y el jazz en la base rítmica afrocubana — y sentó todos los cimientos sobre los que la timba habría de construirse.
Lees meer >Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean and the birthplace of some of the world's most influential music and dance traditions. African, Spanish, and French cultural streams collided here over centuries of colonial history, producing an extraordinary creative culture that exported itself across the globe.
Lees meer >EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales) is Cuba's state recording company, founded in 1964 after the Revolution nationalized all private recording labels. Its main facility, Estudios Areíto in Havana, is where virtually every important Cuban recording from the Revolution era was made.
Lees meer >EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales) is Cuba's state recording company, founded in 1964 after the Revolution nationalized all private recording labels. Its main facility, Estudios Areíto in Havana, is where virtually every important Cuban recording from the Revolution era was made.
Lees meer >EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales) is Cuba's state recording company, founded in 1964 after the Revolution nationalized all private recording labels. Its main facility, Estudios Areíto in Havana, is where virtually every important Cuban recording from the Revolution era was made.
Lees meer >The Buena Vista Social Club was originally a members' club in Havana's Buena Vista neighborhood, active in the 1940s and 50s as a gathering place for musicians playing Son, Danzón, Bolero, and Guaracha. It closed after the Revolution but was immortalized in 1997 when Ry Cooder brought together a group of surviving veteran musicians to record an album under the same name.
Lees meer >Un género de música popular bailable cubana que surgió en los años 1980–90
- Surgió en los años 1980–90
- Influenciado por el songo, la rumba, el funk, el blues, el jazz, el pop, el rock y los ritmos afrocubanos.
- Conocido por sus complejos cambios de ritmo, líneas de bajo agresivas y alta energía que impulsan a los bailadores a improvisar.
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