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Maurice El Médioni Meets Roberto Rodriguez: Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions (2005 [2006], Piranha): Cuban music derives first from Africa, from slaves who managed to preserve their tribal identity and religion through the middle passage and the long ordeal, but also from Spain. The Spanish aspect also traces back to Africa, through the Arab, Moorish, and Jewish melting pot of al-Andalus, roots that not even Torquemada could stamp out. Algerian pianist El Médioni traces his family tree to pre-Inquisition Spain, but that affinity matters less than what Roberto Juan Rodriguez brings to the party. The Cuban percussionist delved into klezmer after emigrating to Miami, inventing a marvelous synthesis on El Danzon de Moises and Baila! Gitano Baila! (both on Tzadik). But where Ashkenazi music had forced him to reach out, Sephardic music had always been tightly packed into his Cuban matrix. Here they unpack it. A- 08/03/06 >> go there
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