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Roots
of Rumba - Habana, Cuba
Dancehall Culture - Kingston,
JA
The Film
Documentary, Roots of Rumba presents an authentic portrayal
of the musical diversity one can find in la Habana, focusing on the Rumba
tradition and the rhythms most often found in the Rumba setting. Interviews
with, Amado Dedeu Hernandez, director of the folkloric ensemble Clave
y Guaguanco, Alejandro Suarez, director of the traditional son group Sierra
Maestra, and Jose Antonio "Maceo" Rodriguez, lead singer for
Sierra Maestra, among others, lay the structure for an endemic account
of the evolution of Rumba and Son to their present form.
Fire is one of the half dozen Jamaican Artists presently produced by Sonerito Productions. In this short stream, we are taken into Fire's humble abode, where he prepares the ganja for a session amongst his bredren. This clip is a small piece of a longer film made in 2002 documenting the present state of dancehall music in Jamaica and its relation to the culture of RastaFari. The film documetnatary, entitled Strait from the Street will be available from Sonerito Productions in March 2003. More Clips of Fire soon...Stay tuned to sonerito.com for the latest in music of the Diaspora. .
See Roots of Rumba
Promo in Quicktime (Broadband) Spanish 5 min 45 sec
