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Yeah Cuban Son music is a hit here in Europe since about a year or so ago. I am surprised (or rather not) that in america with the exception of cultural cities like NY, SF it hasn´t caught on. (Absurd old politics maybe?)This guys were legends in the fifties and after the embargo they weren´t allowed to tour anymore.Salsa from puerto rico then invated the rest of the world and Son music died almost and was completely forgotten.Some of the artist ended up cleaning shoes and rolling tabaco. It was sad. Son music is the mother of salsa and other forms of latin music coming from the rural oriente part of Cuba (Guantanamo) and in the old days considered low class depraved music by the conservatives. Similar to the country blues legacy.It also has a looping element the "tumbao" or "montuno" which is a repetitive section very hypnotic, trance like which makes you want to get up and dance.Check out Changüi music which is older than Son this is the most interesting music i´ve heard in years very hardcore,primitive and rhythmic complex! I fool around often with my Echoplex build up a latin groove and then chop it up in half to create a tumbao is a great way for me to write songs since i play this type of music.You can check out our homepage www.quinteto-cha.de we have a CD out which you can also hear and order from us if you are interested.Its all in German but we will be posting it in English and Spanish soon.But as you can see on the film this old afrocubans can still groooove! just watched "buena vista social club"...........ry cooder and a bunch of older cuban musicians doin their thing...........very very > enjoyable.............m >