09.09.2005: Havana Jazz Festival, Tango on video clips (DVD), Vamos!
Lots of news at Danza y Movimiento!
1. Linguistic variety at the DyM-trips
2. Offers for early bookers to the Havana Jazz festival head into the last
week
3. Tango on video clips (DVD)
4. Vamos! Best of Reggaeton! (new CD)
5. New registrations in August: The winners are…
6. Cuba again, this time political…
1. Linguistic variety at the DyM-trips
From now on all our offers in the travel section are not only available in
German and English, but also Italian, Spanish and French.
I had to let you know, although I'm not quite sure if you as an
English-newsletter-reading person are interested or not! Thanks very
much to the translators of the three new languages! After all it took much
more than 100 hours of work for each language!
Spanish
Italian
French
2. Offers for early bookers to the Havana Jazz festival head into the last
week
If you want to participate in our group travel to Havana on the occasion of
this year's Jazz festival and profit from the special rates for percussionist
and drummers, you have time to do so until September, 15th. Everybody
participating in the trip that starts on November, 27th and ends on
December, 12th will receive lessons with qualified personnel and attend
lots of events:
Jazz festival in Havana
3. Tango on video-clips (DVD)
If you are a tango enthusiast, whether active or passive, and you also have
a DVD-player supporting the American NTSC-system you should
definitely look out for this DVD! It wasn't in first place Carlos Gardels
plane crash that proved: the second capital of Tango in Latin America is
situated in Colombia and called Medellin.
The important role of Tango in Medellin hasn't changed since then; that is
why the record label Fuentes is producing a DVD called "Historia del
Tango. Maybe the title seems to promise too much, but the result
nevertheless is very worth seeing. 11 Tango-clips in colombian studio
atmosphere – just entertaining and remarkable. You can find a track
listing here:
Tango on video-clips (DVD)
If your DVD-player doesn't support NTSC, put it up to date, in case it isn't
a very old model...
4. Vamos! Best of Reggaeton! (new CD)
This CD really took us a lot of time and trouble. Reggaeton includes a lot
of sampling with the result that here and there you'll find melodies from
other tracks whose author's are often hard to identify. But I have to say
that I'm really proud of the outcome!:-)
Especially because our recording crew in Colombia really made an effort;
they seem to have had so much fun that was I often told that a couple of
recordings on this CD are better than the originals. My advice: Form your
own opinion. If you feel too old for Reggaeton, you should give this CD
to your children. Since the release of the Vamos-Reggaeton-CD, it is
booming out of every children's room in the families I know. Well, the
CD includes all the top hits of the last year; you should please check out
the rest yourself and once you did that, leave a comment in our webshop.
(which still gives you the chance to win a CD...). You can find the
Vamos! Reggaeton here:
Vamos! Best of Reggaeton! (new CD)
5. New registrations in August: The winners are…
We ask every newly registered user in our webshop about the way he or
she found us. Who fills out the corresponding field automatically
participates in the monthly raffle. The winner in August is Amir
Abrão-Heß from Hamburg. Amir writes: "You are popular in the
Salsa-scene."
We are really pleased! :-) And I guess that Amir will choose a Salsa-CD...
Our LabelCDs
6. Cuba again, this time political…
The topic "New Orleans" this time evokes a political comment from me.
No matter how one might judge about Mr. Castro and whether it is a
clever political move or not. More than 1000 doctors and tons of whatever
people may need are ready to go in Havana since the Hurricane moved
over New Orleans. The American government didn't answer in days,
didn't react to relief offers form Cuba and Venezuela, rather letting
thousands of Americans die than accepting help from "communist
countries". Cubas relief offers proved to be serious as shown through
other catastrophes in other countries. I hope that the attitude of the
American government opens the eyes of some Americans: freedom and
equality in North America means as much as in many of the so called
banana republics of the Southern part of the continent.
Have a good day!
Matthias Möbius
from DyM-team
