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Fascinating look at Cuba's top band Charanga Habanera
This film is not just for fans of Cuban salsa. Popular! lets us see a something new and positive in Cuba. The Charanga Habanera orchestra is considered the most popular band on the island, (thus the title), their stage show and music are first rate. This is today's Cuban music as opposed to what most of us think of as Cuban music via the CD and documentary film Buena Vista Social Club. The Charanga Habanera are like the Beatles to the Cubans and wherever they go they create over the top enthusiasm. The film shows many slices of Cuban life as well as daily practice, where the band is surrounded by young female fans and other dancers whose feedback determines their hit songs. They are truly popular in all senses of the word as musicians who are so close to their people but also sophisticated representatives of their culture in places like Tokyo, Japan where some concerts were filmed. See this film for the fun of being along for the ride with some sixteen or so amazing Cuban musicians who are creating a new sound fusing the Buena Vista Social Club with elements of jazz, traditional rumba street music, and even classical music and American funk and pop. A make you want to get up and shake it movie for all nationalities.
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- degadoproductions
- Jun 28, 2006
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- ポプラル!
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- $50,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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