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 The paradigmatic Changui Guantanamo record to be commercialized in France
The group, who are followers of the group created in 1945 by the musicians Rafael Inciarte and Reyes Latamblé, has made nine performances in the French country during the last decade and, as always, received long applauses and shouts of viva to Cuba and the Revolution.

According to José Andrés Rodríguez, one of the members of the group, who plays the guayo and the regina, the mentioned CD had the same reception. This record won the 2000 Cubadisco award in popular traditional and folk music, an award sponsored by the company EGREM.

According to the musicologist Odilio Urfé, Bongó de Monte is a beautiful collection of changüí pieces. Changüí is a dance popular music, a sound prototype of the national cultural identity.

For over two centuries this rhythm is the preferred music and dance expression by the Cuban country people of the region of Guantánamo, Baracoa, Yateras, El Salvador and Manuel Tames.

Among the jewels of the CD we can find Hay un no sé que, Si me quieres te quiero, Homenaje a Latamblet, Tumba bongó con las palas, El Diablo Wilson, 17 de enero and a changuí dedicated to the popular neighbourhood La Loma del Chiva, where Elió Revé, creador of the Charangón, lived part of his life.

The title of the CD has its origins in that instrument used in the changuí music, which is bigger and produces graver notes that the bongó used in the Son music.

(Cubarte)

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