"¡Dime nagüe!" - Soneros All Stars

• artist:Soneros All Stars
• region:Caribbean
• release year:2005
• style(s):Cuban, Salsa
• country:Cuba
• formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc)
• record posted by:Soneros All Stars
• label:Soneros Records
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Soneros All Stars are set to release a new
album featuring world famous Cuban stars
from Buena Vista Social Club, Los Van Van,
Sierra Maestra, Elio Revé Jr, Isaac Delgado
and Cubanismo.

Musicians and artists from Cubas most
successful bands perform fresh material on
the album: 'Soneros All Stars - ¡Dime
nagüe!' (no: SASCD041). Release; 20-08-
2005.

The driving force and relentless spirit behind
this project is guitarist/tresplayer and
producer Janne Bogdan of Stockholm. He
has brought together the cream of Havana’s
foremost musicians on an album crammed
with fresh new timba deeply rooted in
soncubano and changüí, genres that have
had a profound influence on the modern
music and dance traditions of Latin America.
This is an album that sounds urban without
ever loosing touch with the rural atmosphere
that constitutes the very essence of the soul
of Guantánamo.

Characteristic for the album, a part from its
strong folkloristic roots, is the singing of
Pascual Matos Aguirre, also known as ’El
Sinsonte’ due to his distinctive sound and
extensive repertory. Sinsonte was raised in
the province of Guantánamo, in the town of
Moa, a three-hour journey from the
mountain village of Yateras where the genre
of changüí was born in the beginning of the
20th century. After being discovered in 1994
by the master of changüí, Elio Revé, he
moved to Havana where he ended up
working for ten years with Elio Revé y su
charangón.

Janne Bogdan and Sinsonte first met in
Stockholm in the fall of 2003. This marked
the beginning of the collaboration eventually
leading up to the recording of the album
together in Cuba. After more than a year of
planning in their respective countries they
finally met up in Havana bringing the newly
written music of several renowned Cuban
songwriters arranged exclusively for the
album ‘Dime Nagüe’.

The material was carefully selected by
Janne Bogdan who also wrote the track ‘La
tierra dónde naci’ as a tribute to the changüí.
He has aimed to make an album suited for
the dance-floor but still in contact with its
traditional roots. The lyrics are mainly about
the rhythm of changüí, of dancing and of
celebrating. The album follows in the
footsteps of the master of changüí, Elio
Revé, and in tribute of him the album
finishes with ‘A ti papá’ in a wish to thank
Elio for what he did for the folklore of
Eastern Cuba.

The title ‘Dime nagüe’ is a local
Guantánamo expression meaning roughly
‘What’s up man’, an apt title as the lyrics are
set in that same province.

The album was recorded by Soneros
Records in studio 4 at the ‘Instituto Cubano
De Radio Y Television’ in Vedado/Havanna/
Cuba between Sep 28 and Oct 14 in 2004.
Produced by Jan Miklos Bogdan. Mixing
and mastering was done at LimeBeat
Productions, Manhattan/New York City/
U.S.A. by Mattias Murhagen.

Musicians: Jan Miklos Bogdan(tres, band-
leader & producer), Papi Oviedo(tres), Jorge
Luis Villa Hernández(tres), Pascual Matos
Aguirre(vocal), José Antonio Rodruiguez
Aguilera(vocal), Enrique Castellanos
Cuesta(vocal), Samuel Formel
Alfonso(pailas), Jorge Luis Torrez Paumiel
'Papiosco'(tumba), Gabriel Licea Dulcet 'El
chino'(bongó), Ariel Guillot
Manzano(trombone), Eulises Benavides
Silveira(trombone), Franciesco Padrón
Jiménez(trumpet), Oslén Céballo
Brian(trumpet), Klas Nilsson(trumpet),
Arnaldo Jiménez(baby-bass/electric-bass &
musical arrangements), Boris Luna(piano),
Oderquis Revé(pailas).