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La Habana Magazine lahabana. com magazine lahabana magazine HIP-ROCK issue OCT INCLUDING GUIDE TO THE BEST PLACES TO EAT, DRINK, DANCE AND STAY IN HAVANAOCT 2016 1 lahabana. com magazine OCT 2016 2 lahabana. com magazine LA HABANA.COM is an independent platform, which seeks to HAVANA GUIDE showcase the best in Cuba arts & culture, life-style, sport, travel and much more... The ultimate guide to Havana with detailed reviews of where to We seek to explore Cuba through the eyes of the best writers, eat, drink, dance, shop, visit and play. Unique insights to the photographers and filmmakers, both Cuban and international, who place that a gregarious, passionate and proud people call home. live work, travel and play in Cuba. Beautiful pictures, great videos, opinionated reviews, insightful articles and inside tips. HAVANA LISTINGS MAY 2016 3 lahabana. com magazine EDITORIAL Welcome to the October Hip Hop & Rock’n’Roll issue of La Habana magazine. that contributes to a reunion with the roots Yes, there’s more to Cuban music than just salsa. of the nation (October 17-20) and the Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoamericana, an event that Hip hop beats first trickled into Cuba in the early 90s. Rap, Cuban-style, is now seeks to recover and promote the Spanish very much part of the island’s musical culture. In the early days it was met with a roots and background of the Ibero-American deal of resistance but was slowly embraced. Although the present-day movement nations (October 24-30). is limited given a great lack of resources and venues, it is still pretty vibrant. Back in Havana, Rock‘n’roll, however, is thought by experts that it is not going through its best times right now. Yet, there are many rock bands active right now, not only in We especially wish to recommend the Havana but in provinces like Pinar del Río and Santa Clara, which both hold rock Cuerda Viva Grand Concert of Alternative festivals. (Teatro Nacional, Sala Avellaneda, October 8, 11pm), and when that has ended, grab a So, we invite the reader to learn about these genres in Cuba through the articles cab and rush down to Fábrica de Arte for we have put together in this issue and discover how hip hop and rock are both Mozart Classical Rave with DJ producer alive and kicking. Iván Lejardi (October 8), which promises to be an interesting experience. There is no shortage of events in October. For the first time in Cuba, the And in other news, read about Savior, the Countertenors of the World Festival will be held through October 9. Get ready first Cuban indie videogame by visual artist to enjoy the unique voices of singers from 11 different countries, and several Josuhe Pagliery and programmer Johann world premieres. In a similar vein, the Festival Mozart-Habana 2016 is a must for Armenteros. classical music lovers. And last but surely not least, the 25th International Havana Ballet Festival will open on October 28 and will continue through November 6. Abrazos! The LaHabana.com Team If by any chance you are in the eastern part of Cuba, we recommend you take a trip to the city of Bayamo for the Fiesta de la Cubanía, art and culture in a festival OCT 2016 lahabana. com magazine OCT 2016 5 lahabana. com magazine Cuba Travel Network: Definitely Di fferent Come and experience Cuba with a company that’s passionate about the magical island. Our on the ground team in Cuba is the first to know about the country’s developments—from new hotels and tour possibilities to ever-changing travel regulations, and we love to show our beautiful home to the world. With Cuba Travel Network, experience Cuba as a traveler, not a tourist. Why travel with Cuba Travel Network? • CTN is the premier travel service provider for the individual traveler planning trips to Cuba, handling accommodation, all domestic flights and excursions. • On-the-ground assistance from expert concierge representatives throughout the island. • Choose from fully guided, flexible and special interest tours. • Real-time availability and immediate booking confirmation for 220+ hotels and 50+ rental car locations. • Secure online payment; Visa & MasterCard accepted. US - [email protected] | 1 800 282 2468 (Toll Free) Europe - [email protected] | +31 (0)20 794 7962 Asia - [email protected] | 1800 198 150 (Toll Free) Rest of the world - [email protected] | +53 (0)7 214 0090 CubaTravelNetwork.com OCT 2016 6 CONTENTS OCT 2016 lahabana. com magazine 65 On the spotlight: HIP-ROCK Michel Hernández Cuban ingenuity at issue 69 its best Rap Cubano: The Birth of a Savior: a leap of faith Cuban Movement 08 74 The New Cuba Mix Cuba Beyond the 31 80 Beach: Stories of Life in Havana Alejandro Zamora: A Cuban Hip-Hop Historian 36 HAVANA LISTINGS Despite changes, Cuba’s Hip VISUAL ARTS Hop Obesión stays strong 41 PHOTOGRAPHY DANCE Guámpara Music: Feet MUSIC planted in Santiago de Cuba 48 THEATRE but eyes on the continent FOR KIDS EVENTS The Best Cuban Rock Songs 54 HAVANA GUIDE The World without Patio de FEATURES María 58 RESTAURANTS BARS & CLUBS LIVE MUSIC What’s happening today in HOTELS Cuban Rock Music 61 PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION OCT 2016 lahabana. com magazine RAP CUBANO The Birth of a Cuban Movement by Jauretzy OCT 2016 8 lahabana. com magazine “I think Cuban rap has always had a proper use of intellectualism. It can take a problem that exists, recognize it, and take it to a poetic description, and in an individualistic way. A rap song can say in four minutes what it takes an intellectual a whole day to explain.” - Ariel Fernandez, Cuban Rap Historian OCT 2016 9 lahabana. com magazine Chuck D was the founder of a respected American rap band called Public Enemy. In 1990, a song named “Fight the Power” was blasted from the speakers of a misunderstood movie character in the famous film “Do the Right Thing” directed by Spike Lee. The genre of rap had existed before, but for some reason mainstream America took notice. Perhaps because the movie finally crawled out of the ghettos and into white movie theaters all over the country, including shopping malls. The music was confrontational, bold, angry, poetic, and to white America, yes it was scary. Chuck D once reffered to rap as “the black CNN”, a newsletter of the ghettos. Soon, all ages and races in the United States and eventually the world would rally for these voices. A bunch of white, black, brown, indian, chinese, and beyond were showing up to international Public Enemy concerts with raised fists. The music was no longer about color, it was about the disenfranchised worldwide, and slowly those few invisible voices became a larger body of visible voices. For the first time, all voices were heard and it was cool to listen… and isn’t that exciting? OCT 2016 10 lahabana. com magazine “The morning workday is ending and I am swallowed by the afternoon, my stomach is sending an SOS I can’t prevent” - Lyrics to Vivencias (Living Conditions) by Papa Humbertico OCT 2016 11 lahabana. com magazine Around the same time, young Cubans were starving and hungry, not what happened in Cuba with the guaguanco and previous music from just for nutrients of the belly, but of also for outside inspiration. It the streets.You lose the lights and you get a couple of boxes and a couple was 1990 and the start of an era called The Special Period. After the of spoons, and sit in the street and create a Rumba. Rap is part of the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Cuba was in the precarious position of Cuban tradition of finding an alternative.” being one of the few countries left to hold the torch for a communist belief. This meant Cuba was financially on its own, and spiralled into If you really want to take this back in time, Cuba’s original tribes widespread poverty with food and resources disappearing off shelves. used to do the same. Gathering in secrecy, or “on-the-down-low” Coupled with the intense stronghold of the American embargo, the as they say, the first slave ships arrived in 1522 into Cuba and its streets became the new forum to discuss, debate, and eventually slave population began to form social clubs called “cabildos” which spawn a new freestyle culture. “When there was a power outage, people became the root of most Cuban musical forms. Essentially, these were would get bored” explains Rap radio host, Ariel Fernandez. “You couldn’t jam sessions to release tension, while preserving African cultural watch movies or play dominoes. People would get together on corners traditions, generating a distinctive style of music called Afro-Cuban and in neighborhoods. The first rappers got stimulated and began to music. The spirit of freestyling and improvistation has been embedded improvise and freestyle to the blackout. It is not very different from in the Cuban spirit ever since, from cabildos to Cuban jazz. OCT 2016 12 lahabana. com magazine Soandry, a resident of Alamar, was emblematic of this new generation in crisis. As a child, his brother left in the mass exodus of 1994. “It’s a time that I will never forget. I was very young and you would see people who would just leave from one day to the other. I lent something to a friend of mine from Alamar, and when I went to get it a few days later, his mom said, “No, he left. You didn’t hear?” This happened all across the country, and created a gap in understanding.
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