Cuban Musical Roots Propelled Into the Future

Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band – Havana Club Rumba Sessions 

(Brownswood Records, 2016)

The British DJ, record label owner and producer Gilles Peterson is mastermind behind such recordings as the Jazz Juice Street Sounds recording series, Acid Jazz and Other Illicit Grooves, Black Jazz Radio, Gilles Peterson Digs America: Brownswood USA and Gilles Peterson Presents Sonzeira Talkin’ Loud, as well as countless other recordings including remixes Raphael Gualizzi ‘Reality & Fantasy,’ Seu Jorge ‘Burguesinha,’ Meshell N’Degeocello Friends and Chambao Duende Del Sur. If that weren’t enough, Mr. Peterson has worked with such artists as Mala, Ghostpoet, Lefto, Simbad and helped advance the careers of Jamiroquai, Roni Size and Erykah Badu.

Not one to rest on his laurels, Mr. Peterson has launched a new series called Havana Cultura, this three CD set comes complete with a feature length documentary directed by Charlie Inman. Opening the series with Havana Club Rumba Sessions, out on his own Brownswood Records label, Mr. Peterson kicks off this series with a kickass selection of remixes that is savagely cool.

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