Gilles Peterson: Havana Cultura // More documentary screenings announced @ Musique Non Stop

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Havana Cultura // More documentary screenings announced Posted: 24 Feb 2016 10:59 AM PST With our rumba documentary making it’s way abroad to screens dotted across Europe, we’ve got together a list of all the screenings coming up to make sure no one misses out on a screening at a cinema near them. Running over the course of the next few months, ‘Havana Club Rumba Sessions: La Clave’ is worth checking for anyone interested in learning about the roots of Cuban music. Produced in collaboration with the Havana Cultura, the film is one part of the latest chapter in the longstanding relationship between Gilles Peterson and Havana Cultura. The film features interviews with key figures across the island's musical generations. It's an insight into rumba's continued significance in a country where a carefully preserved past has long sat side-by-side with exciting innovation. The film is about tracing the through lines running from slave communities' spiritual drumming practises, the dancers and musicians who've preserved those traditions, through to the younger generation who've plucked out and re-contextualised the elements most exciting to them. Check out the remaining few screening below, don’t miss out! ICA – London Thu 25 Feb 2016 8.50pm Fri 26 Feb 2016 5.45pm Fri 26 Feb 2016 7.15pm Sat 27 Feb 2016 4.45pm Sun 28 Feb 2016 4.45pm Phoenix Cinema – London Sun 28 Feb 2016 2.00pm – Including Q&A with Crispin Robinson + free Havana Club cocktail. The Lexi – London Sun 28 Feb 2016 3.00pm The Cube – Bristol Fri 4 March 2016 8.00pm – DJ set after the show. Picture House – Brighton Sat 5th March 2016 10.00pm – Introduction from Gilles Peterson. Babylon Berlin – Berlin Mon 7th March 2016 Tues 8th March 2016 Weds 9th March 2016 Fact – Liverpool Sun 13th March 2016 3.30pm – Q&A with Crispin Robinson. Picture House – Oxford 21st March 2016 – 33 tickets needed to confirm Picture House- Cambridge 21st March 2016 – 25 tickets needed to confirm The Mockingbird Theatre – Birmingham Sun 3rd April 2016 3.00pm – Q&A with Crispin Robinson. Cully Jazz – Switzerland Weds 13th April 2016 9.00pm – Introduced by Gilles Peterson + special rumba show from Dayme Arocena. AB Club – Brussels Weds 20th April 2016 8.00pm Africa Festival – Wurzburg Tues 26th April 2016 9.30pm

Havana Cultura // Stream Max Graef & Glenn Astro remix Posted: 24 Feb 2016 07:00 AM PST We’ve got another track to share with you from the new ‘Havana Club Rumba Sessions’ album which is set to be released very soon. It’s a kickdrum-sprung workout from Max Graef & Glenn Astro that rides on the rough and ready beatmaking that’s long been their modus operandi. The latest chapter in the longstanding relationship between Gilles Peterson and the music of Cuba, the album sees him explore the roots of rumba through a project comprising three parts: a feature length documentary, a collection of remixes and a free sample pack. Produced in collaboration with Cuban rum maker Havana Club – that created the Havana Cultura platform to promote contemporary Cuban culture –, it's another episode in a six-year relationship that's already given vital exposure to different aspects of Cuba's thriving music culture through the Havana Cultura album series*. Unpacking the three main styles of rumba is a central part of the project: they are largely agreed to be guaganco, yambu and columbia. Peterson worked with the island's esteemed rumberos to record authoritative versions of the three rhythms as well as discuss what differing meanings and origins are attached to each. The rhythms are the starting point from which the three strands of the project have diverged. Where the film depicts the lineage descending from the working class communities of Havana and Matanzas to modern-day dancefloors, this other arm of the project allows for an exciting, global re-interpretation of rumba's roots. The recordings of rumba's three central styles were handed to a crop of producers working in the orbit of club music's most interesting areas. The result is Havana Club Rumba Sessions, collection of remixes as varied as you'd expect from a roster of producers plucked from locales spread from South London, Japan and beyond. It's released March 11th on digital and April 1st on vinyl. Pre-order on iTunes here.