''¡Ay Caramba!'' is the second studio album by English group
Ska Cubano, released on 4 July 2005 by Casinosounds.
It was released in the US by independent label
Cumbancha
Cumbancha is a record label, booking agency and music publisher (popular music), music publisher based in Charlotte, Vermont, United States. The company was founded by ethnomusicologist and music producer Jacob Edgar in 2006. In 2007, Cumbancha M ...
. The album mixes Jamaican
ska
Ska (; , ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a w ...
,
Afro-Cuban son, retro
swing,
salsa
Salsa most often refers to:
* Salsa (food), a variety of sauces used as condiments
* Salsa music, a popular style of Latin American music
* Salsa (dance), a Latin dance associated with Salsa music
Salsa or SALSA may also refer to:
Arts and ent ...
and
Colombian cumbia
Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans during colonial times. Cumbia is said to have com ...
.
Critical reception
Steve Hands of ''
musicOMH
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History
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'' wrote that the album "possesses the grainy authenticism of goodtimey Ska, just before the euphoria of Jamaican independence subsided, full of tall tales, late-nite shebeens, rum, and
rhumba
Rhumba, also known as ballroom rumba, is a genre of ballroom music and ballroom dance, dance that appeared in the East Coast of the United States during the 1930s. It combined American big band music with Afro-Cuban rhythms, primarily the son cub ...
".
Brent Hagerman of ''
Exclaim!
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'' called the album "a pan-Caribbean jam from the early '60s that never had a chance to happen since the Cuban revolution largely cut off musical ties between Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean".
Track listing
References
External links
*
Ska Cubano albums
2005 albums
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