Yuri Buenaventura – Amame (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 38:12 minutes | 726 MB | Genre: World, Salsa, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vivienne Music Label
New York salsa hasn’t changed, and that’s where Yuri Buenaventura comes from, the angular, sensual, romantic and fierce salsa of the historic Fania All Stars albums.
“To speak of the origins of this music is to speak of Spaniards who leave their country to seek a new life and get lost in the jungle with mosquitoes and snakes, of blacks thrown into boats and whipped to work, of Amerindians assaulted by absolute evil with its cross, which massacres them because they believe in the gods of the river and the sun. And then there’s the tragedy within the tragedy: the exodus of Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Dominicans from their island in the sun to the wintry slums of New York. Well, that’s what New York salsa is all about.
When the general public discovered him in France with his extraordinary cover of Ne me quitte pas, in 1996, he opened the doors to a renewed interest in Latin music, but always insisting on its fundamentals, inseparable from its history. “Refusing to allow artificial intelligence to write music, to wear a suit to a concert, is to honor Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, who were asked to enter through the back door of white clubs, who couldn’t sleep in the hotels where they played because no blacks were allowed in the rooms.”
Let’s make the most of it: even romantic salsa is history that can be danced.
New album AMAME released on September 13, 2024.
Tracklist:
1-1. Yuri Buenaventura – AMAME (03:24)
1-2. Yuri Buenaventura – AMAME ( ACCOUSTIQUE ) (Acoustic version) (02:30)
1-3. Yuri Buenaventura – ME HACES FELIZ (03:50)
1-4. Yuri Buenaventura – PARA SIEMPRE (04:53)
1-5. Yuri Buenaventura – MORIR DE AMOR (03:00)
1-6. Yuri Buenaventura – HOMBRE NUEVO (04:54)
1-7. Yuri Buenaventura – TU Y YO (04:17)
1-8. Yuri Buenaventura – TU Y YO ( ACCOUSTIQUE ) (Acoustic version) (03:26)
1-9. Yuri Buenaventura – MI RICO SON (03:49)
1-10. Yuri Buenaventura – Aqui Llegamos (04:04)
