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Al Quetz
Habanologia

Habanologia
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Artists

Al Quetz

Catno

STILL006CD

Formats

1x CD

Country

France

Release date

Oct 29, 2021

Genres

Hip-Hop

You have to know how to move away from the rich, strong and noisy streets, if you want to discover another Havana. A Havana far from the tourist circuits and preconceived images. A Havana where one discovers bucolic, but hard and stripped too after slow journeys in the crowded buses, a Havana with which Al Quetz maintains a passionate history since more than fourteen years.

Installed in one of those neighborhoods that can only be reached by going deeper into the alleys, from the open window of the studio comes the sound of banging drums and thumping bass. The sound reaches the streets on which the day rises.

The place wakes up in a growing tumult, with some rare engines coughing, conversations under the windows, songs of the street vendors , an urban ballet sets up as the sun darts its rays.
Far from the musical clichés with percussions and horns, Cuba is an island bombarded with influences that one discovers. An island which vibrated for the jazz, the soul, the psychedelic rock , from the waves coming from the Caribbean to those of the bulky neighboring ogre.
A musical flowering as varied as abundant that the glorious post-revolutionary label Areito has on thousands of recordings, and that Al Quetz has designated as the sole source of his samples to compose Habanologia.

From the ambiences that punctuate the local daily life caught by his samplers, he let the melancholy infiltrate his hip hop beats, the nostalgia melting in the depths of his grooves. Nostalgia in the Cuban air, even during moments of intense laughter, which never totally disappears.

Habanologia restores these moments when the song of the birds has extinguished those of the cars. Where, sitting on a doorstep, we comment on the life of the neighborhood, we watch the women's swaying at eye level. The whole day if necessary, the coffee at one peso, after a certain hour, which leaves its place to the Planchao rum. Wandering through its streets where a chance encounter can itself bring others and lead to the essence of the habanera life. From Regla, after a short trip on the bus-boat that crosses the bay, savor the end of the day, observe the capital from afar, let the nocturnal insects ensure some arrangements and drift towards mysterious horizons, bringing to the contemplation of the place and the moment.

A flute, a keyboard, percussions or a voice. Al Quetz also invited his friends from the island or elsewhere to decorate his productions with their live touch. To share with him this Havana for which he covered his tracks, mixed times and distorted space-time to make it timeless.
To write with Habanalogia, a declaration of love to the Cuban capital, to make Havana, His Havana.

1

Que Bolá (feat. Oldjay, Buddy Sativa)

2

Luchando (feat. Dela, Medline, Oldjay)

3

La Sombra de la Palma (feat. Niko Coyez, Florian Pellissier)

4

Luna Habanera (feat. Obsession)

5

El Café de María y el Baile de Celso (feat. Buddy Sativa)

6

Oda (feat. Jorge Bolaño, Florian Pellissier, Dan Amazig

7

La Lanchita de Regla (feat. Oldjay, Dan Amazig)

8

Babalawo y Caracoles (feat. Niko Coyez, Dan Amazig)

9

Caminando Tu Lumbre (feat. Florian Pellissier, Dan Amazig)

10

Planchao y Criollos (feat. Oldjay, Medline)

11

Batido de Trigo (feat. Niko Coyez)

12

Taínos (feat. Fulgeance)

13

La Danza de Mis Muertos

14

Ella y el Resto de Mis Dias (feat. Vinczdef)

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