It is becoming my favorite place to go listen to some good
Latin tunes. Senor Taco at Clark Quay; Singapore kind of reasonably priced, fun
staff, good crowd and of course the great Ireson band with
Alina Ramirez Melendez
Martin Elias Reyes
Mario Alberto Lopez Lara
This time NOT with Carlos Sendros
The regular feature Leo Munoz
from Mexico who would be pleasing us with classic Son Cubano.
Of course I had never heard of Luis till I received
Alina’s invitation but I had heard of the genre Son. I guess everyone knows the
beautiful melancholic tunes made popular by the Album Buena Vista Social club.
Great music for Sunday evening blues. Louis though not from Cuba, to my
uneducated ears, perfectly capturing the sentiments of the Cuban Son,
melancholic, bluesy with a sense of humor that makes hard life more bearable.
On that Sunday night the audience
seemed to be mainly the, to me, familiar Latin dance pack. I thought it put a
bit of pressure on the band to move away form Son and play more Salsa style
music. Only now I know, thanks to Wikipedia, that several Latin dance music styles are derived
from Son Cubano .
So much for Melancholic and Bluesy. I guess those were the
Buena Vista tunes that stuck most for me.
It was no longer the kind of relaxing
evening I had intended to have but nevertheless very enjoyable. Most people were, for the camera's ability, dancing in
the dark, but it was still fun to play with the band members’ images and the "silhouettes"
in front of them
Not being much of a dancer myself I could
only enjoy watching the dancers move, some more gracefully than others, with
the music.
And as an added advantage, I now
had a reason to return the following Monday, because I was told, the band would
stick more to the originally announced format... Son.
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