Obini Bata Cuba 1 - all female Cuban percussion group

http://www.earthcds.com/caribbean/cuba/cuba-obini.shtml This DVD is a live recording of a performance given by Obiní Batá at the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana, Cuba in 2003.

Obiní Batá was the first group of females in Cuba, and probably the whole world, to play the batá drums profesionally. The group was founded in 1993 by several women who sung and danced in Conjunto Folklórico Nacional dem Cuba, and this performance was given in the year of their tenth anniversary.

The drums and vocals are properly balanced, recorded with high-fidelity, professional audio equipment. The selection of songs on this DVD demonstrates the richness of Afrocuban musical and dance traditions in contemporary Cuba.

The show starts with a riveting Orishas suite
and then delves into some innovative rumba interpretations of popular songs. This is Afrocuban music delivered with a feminine charm!

Subtitles in English are included for the interview with Eva Trujillo, founding member of the group, and commentary by reknowned Cuban musicologist Enrique Zayas is included on the DVD.

"a breathless, riveting
performance. . .choreography
is smooth and professional,
and the blending of percussion
and voice is seamless. . .a superhuman effort".
- Katherine Hagedorn

Now available: http://www.earthcds.com/caribbean/cuba/cuba-obini.shtml

Category:

Music

Tags:

• cuba
• cuban
• afro-cuban
• afro-cuba
• bata
• percussion
• drumming
• cajon
• rumba
• santeria
• lukumi
• conga
• orisha
• africa
• havana
• drums

[Any2267ful]

Yoruba es musica de esclavos afrocubanos.Nacio en cuba,no nigeria es la manera en que los esclavos cubanos aceptaron la religion catolica,cada santo con nombre africano,es un santo con nombre europeo

[Any2267ful]

I don'care if you don'put my comment every body in the world know that this it afrocuban culture.Not Nigeria culture.Yoruba is afrocuban music.

[Any2267ful]

I can see that you are confuse about the cuban folklore,because you want it.With bad intencion.This its afrocuban music,born in cuba not Nigeria.This is the history of slave afrocuban

[Any2267ful]

Look this music its afrocuban music.Its born in cuba.Its the way that slave from cuba become the european saints in african saint.This saint is LA VIRGEN DE REGLA.YEMAYA from african cuban

[Any2267ful]

This its afrocuban music.ITs the way that the slave afrocuban become the European saints in african saints.This saint is La virgen de regla,Yemaya.Yoruba its afrocubanmusic.This culture its from cuba.

[Coogie246]

Reminds me of Yoruba Music.... I love it.

Nigeria for Life!

[Coogie246]

It sounds like Yoruba....I love it

[cascaret]

GUAJACONE' PA' LA ORILLA.....

[olichca7]

siii yo tambien soy desdendiente de esclavos soy mestisa con orgullasemente cubana

y ademas de africa tengo raises de moros es un mescla tremenda.

[MELENARUMBERA]

Me alegro ver mas mujeres tocando tambores de nuestra raices. Somos Cubanas/Africanas. Muy linda el video.