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Irakere
Bacalao Con Pan
ESC 6520-2
UPC: 617465652028
1.      Valle De Picadura                                           4:57
2.      Romance (Juegos Prohibidos)                         4:18
3.      Aguanile Bonko                                              4:43
4.      La Semilla                                                       4:33
5.      Calzada Del Cerro                                          6:57
6.      Santiaguera                                                     7:04
7.      Bailando Así                                                   6:12
8.      Siete Tazas De Café                                        7:39
9.      Taka Takata                                                    3:14
10.    Este Camino Largo                                          6:49
11.    Bacalao Con Pan                                             3:46
12.    Rucu Rucu A Santa Clara                                 7:51
13.    La Verdad                                                       3:53

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VALLE DE PICADURA
Written by Jesus "Chucho" Valdes
Published by Hadem Music Corp. (BMI) admin. By Spirit Two Music, Inc.
P 1974 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

ROMANCE (Juegos Prohibidos)
Written by Leo Brower
Published by Copyright Control
P 1978 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

AGUANILE BONKO
Written by Jesus "Chucho" Valdes
Published by Hadem Music Corp. (BMI) admin. By Spirit Two Music, Inc.
P 1980 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

LA SEMILLA
Written by Jesus "Chucho" Valdes
Published by Copyright Control
P 1981 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

CALZADA DEL CERRO
Written by Jesus "Chucho" Valdes
Published by Hadem Music Corp. admin. By Spirit Two Music, Inc.
P 1983 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

SANTIAGUERA
Written by Oscar Valdes
Published by Copyright Control
P 1986 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

BAILANDO ASí
Written by Manolo del Valle
Published by Gramophone Music Co. (ASCAP)
P 1985 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

SIETE TAZAS DE CAFÉ
Written by Jesus "Chucho" Valdes
Published by Hadem Music Corp. (BMI) admin. By Spirit Two Music, Inc.
P 1982 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

TAKA TAKATA
Written by Al Verlane
Published by September Music Corp. (ASCAP)
P 1974 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

ESTE CAMINO LARGO
Witten by Juan Almeida
Published by Copyright Control
P 1980 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

BACALAO CON PAN
Written by Raul Valdes
Published by Gramophone Music Co. (ASCAP)
P 1974 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

RUCU RUCU A SANTA CLARA
Written by Jose Luis Cortes
Published by Copyright Control
P 1985 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales

LA VERDAD
Written by Oscar Valdes
Published by Copyright Control
P 1974 Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales


Irakere
represents a whole period in Cuban music that goes from the early 1970’s all the way through the 80’s. Renowned musicians such as Paquito D’Rivera, Arturo Sandoval and indeed its founder and director, Chucho Valdés developed their professional careers in this band. Irakere was then some sort of laboratory and popular music academy where musicians experimented and learned from each other as they developed a style without precedents in Cuban popular music.
Although the group is best known for putting everyone up and dancing, its greatest contribution has been taking on and developing challenging musical ideas with total freedom. The proof is this compilation album: check the memorable Romance –featuring prestigious guitarist Leo Brower- or the seemingly old fashioned yet here revitalized Danzón en Valle de Picadura... Dancers seeking to enjoy the band’s steaming flavor must check Aguanile Boncó, Las Semillas, La Verdad, Rucu Rucu a Santa Clara… and indeed, one of the band’s first recordings, Bacalao con Pan, which even when bringing controversy at the time among purist critics has eventually become a symbolic song both of the band and of those golden years. 

The word Irakere means both vegetation and whip in the African Yoruba language. Although founded in 1972, the band had antecedents on previous ensembles: Chucho Valdes’ combo (1965) and the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna (Cuban Orchestra of Modern Music, 1967), of which many of the founders of Irakere were part. By 1973, the band’s members were Chucho on the piano, Oscar Valdés on percussion, Carlos del Puerto on the bass, guitarist Carlos Emilio Morales, saxophonists Paquito D’Rivera and Carlos Averhoff, Jorge Varona on the trumpet, drummer Bernardo García and Alfonso Campos on the congas. The next year, Arturo Sandoval joined in and Enrique Plá took over the drums. According to Chucho Valdés, the D’Rivera-Averhoff-Sandoval-Varona horn section is the best ever in the history of Cuban music. Many other first class musicians were to join Irakere later on; among them, José Luis Cortés, Germán Velazco, César López, Orlando Maraca Valle and Miguel Angá.

Once Chucho asserted that he would never give up Irakere. Let’s keep hoping then that its veterans will reunite sooner than later to, along with today’s debuting talents, initiate a new era of Cuban popular music.
-SIGFREDO ARIEL 

 



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