http://www.timba.com/artists/cesarpedro ... review.htm
ou comment je me sens moins seule
dans mes délires de clins d'oeil et jeux de mots
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Les "audios example" sont à écouter sur le lien ci-dessus! Et ce que relève Pepe Martinez en "clins d'oeils" ne concerne qu'1 album
"Qué cosas tiene la vida" contains some wonderful examples of "quoting" -- the practice of using fragments of famous songs as material for improvisation that's so common in Cuban music, as well as in Jazz. For example, in the title track Armando transforms "Llegó el sabor", from Sergio George's "Combinación perfecta" project [audio example] into "Llegó el tambor" [audio example] and Rubén Blades' "Pedro Navaja" [audio example from Rubén Blades' "Pedro Navaja"] is the inspiration for this great guía [audio example from "Qué cosas tiene la vida"].
Rubén Blades is one of the most quoted artists by Cuban singers. The following passage from "Plastico" [audio example from Rubén Blades "Plastico"] (from Siembra, Fania JMCD-537) provided inspiration for two of Timba's greatest songs. Manolín used the coro as a guía in "Dios sabe" [audio example from Manolín's El Puente] and Mayito Rivera adapted the guía for Los Van Van's "Llévala a tu vacilón" [audio example]
And later on Pupy's new CD Pepe Gómez pays his own homage to Blades [from Rubén Blades "Ligia Elena"] in the new version of "Seis semanas" [from new version of "Seis semanas"]. Of course, it could be said that Rubén himself began the exchange of musical ideas when he made a big hit in the US with Juan Formell's "Anda, muévete y ven".
The onslaught of tasteful quotes doesn't end with Rubén Blades. The album is is also full of quotes from classic Cuban music. One of the most cleverly disguised is this passage from the old standard "Dos gardenias". Here's an excerpt from the Buena Vista Social Club version [audio example]. Armando doesn't quote the words, but borrows part of the melody for his guía. The words in red use the phrase from "Dos gardenias":
quiérela, cuídala, vívela
no hay sin ella inspiración
y mucho menos poesía [audio example]
This discussion of quotes could go on and on, Tirso takes the cake by quoting himself twice in the same guía on "La bomba soy yo". The first source is from his recording of "Pa' lo que me importa a mí" from Charanga Habanera's "Charanguero Mayor" [audio example] and the second from a coro that he later added to the live version of another song from that album, "El Cantinero" [audio example]. Whether by intent or stream of consciousness association, he weaves parts of each together to create this great guía for "La bomba soy yo" [audio example], and later goes for a real stretch with this quote from Queen's "We are the Champions" [audio example].
(Euh... si je ne me trompe pas... )
, il me semble que c'est toi qui avait raconté cette anecdote une fois