Two new discs by Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco captivate for their proposal. In one, the band continues showing its peculiar way of making 'son', and in another, proves its daring by presenting us a work pretty distant from what it usually plays. In "Beat Cubano" and "Trabuco una vez más", both discs produced by Bis Music, we can see a same group that shows its ability to splitting from an eminently son group into a jazz band, without demeritting its work in any of the two. Manolito Simonet is sure that the genre he defends does not lose its paramount role in the repertoire of this type of groups, if there's room for other musical styles.">Two new discs by Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco captivate for their proposal. In one, the band continues showing its peculiar way of making 'son', and in another, proves its daring by presenting us a work pretty distant from what it usually plays. In "Beat Cubano" and "Trabuco una vez más", both discs produced by Bis Music, we can see a same group that shows its ability to splitting from an eminently son group into a jazz band, without demeritting its work in any of the two. Manolito Simonet is sure that the genre he defends does not lose its paramount role in the repertoire of this type of groups, if there's room for other musical styles.">

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Two New Discs by the Trabuco

Two new discs by Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco captivate for their proposal. In one, the band continues showing its peculiar way of making 'son', and in another, proves its daring by presenting us a work pretty distant from what it usually plays.

In "Beat Cubano" and "Trabuco una vez más", both discs produced by Bis Music, we can see a same group that shows its ability to splitting from an eminently son group into a jazz band, without demeritting its work in any of the two.

Manolito Simonet is sure that the genre he defends does not lose its paramount role in the repertoire of this type of groups, if there's room for other musical styles.

That's why, he has put on record, through "Beat cubano", the taste the members of the Trabuco have for jazz.

"Groups should open up much more to other styles so that their musicians do not have the need to leave toward other projects", Simonet told the press at the CD launch.

Precisely, Manolito lived the said experience in this album, because in several of the ten themes that make up this discographic production he invited recognized instrumentalists, who successfully incurse into this genre.

"Beat cubano" includes singles, arrangements and performances by Chucho Valdés, Emilio Vega, Germán Velazco, Miguel Ángel de Armas, and Simonet himself.

In each melodic cut you can notice the desire of its producers to permeate the orchestrations with a Creole hallmark. It is appreciated in tracks like "Bésame mucho" -where Chucho Valdés leaves his mark on the piano-, "El danzón y yo" -in which Manolito shows up his irresistible passion for that Cuban style-, and "A flautazo limpio", an electrifying sonorous discharge.

Simonet admits that the Trabuco has always been linked to jazz, "Simply, we hadn't expressed it in a disc. It's the first time that we do it. It has been a great experience, above all for me, because in the course of my entire career I hadn't made a disc of this genre, and I am glad it is now among the most sold Cuban albums abroad, though our orchestra does not devote itself to it".

For its part, "Trabuco una vez más" shows how high the group keeps its style in the musical genre that it defends.

According to Manolito Simonet, in this volume they seek "to continue working with popular Cuban music and to reach the new generations once again, because every time I make a disc, I want to join the sonorous catalogue of the people who go to dance with us".

They are 13 tracks in which the artist affirmed that his group is in tune with "what the Cuban and foreign dancer demand".

For that, the Trabuco, besides the musicians who make it up, invited Puerto Rican pianist José Manuel Lugo, who plays in the group of Gilberto Santa Rosa. It also includes the voices of salsa musician Paulito FG and rock artist David Blanco.

Simonet's maxim is clear: "Cuba is a country that dances a lot". It's up to son musicians to add up all the generations of dancers. The project is ambitious, but "Trabuco una vez más" shows that popular music can be approached with creativity and topicality in the rhythms too.

By Yelanys Hernández Fusté

Cubasi Translation Staff

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