Juan Manuel (@limonta) - BlockTunes

Juan Manuel

Havana

Passionate about music, sports, and politics.

18 days ago

Three Tunes (Late) Tuesday: Guarapo en disco [ES-EN] La Orquesta Akokán salió al mercado por todo lo alto en 2018. Su álbum debut fue nominado a los Grammy y a los Billboard, y no entiendo cómo no ganó uno y otro. Este post

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25 days ago

Three Tunes Tuesday: Cuban Timba! [EN/ES] These past few days, I've been revisiting what hit hardest in Cuba in the late '90s and at the dawn of the new century, with a particular eye on the timba movement. Chucho

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about 1 month ago

Three Tunes Tuesday: 23 y 12, 1978 [EN/ES] ⋆༺ 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟖 ༻⋆ Año 1978. La Habana se prepara para celebrar el XI Festival Mundial de la Juventud y los Estudiantes, y en el cine de 23 y 12 de la capital, una

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about 1 month ago

Ibeyi: 35 segundos que valen por un álbum [ES/EN] Hola, melómanos. Ayer, de paseo por Spotify, me topé con el nuevo disco de Ibeyi, el dúo de las talentosas gemelas franco-cubanas Lisa Kainde y Naomi Díaz. Supe de ellas po

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about 1 month ago

Three Tunes Tuesday: Sharing some great music from two late Cuban master drummers [EN/ES] Hello, music lovers. I've spent hours and hours on Spotify listening to everything I could find by great Cuban master drummers who are no longer with us, musicians whose wo

about 1 month ago

Miguel Aurelio (Angá) Díaz: "With fewer than seven congas, it couldn't be done" I have seen hours of the late Cuban percussionist Miguel Ángel "Angá" Díaz caressing the skins of his mythical five congas. For many, he must be in any "Top 3" of the great

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about 2 months ago

Three Tunes Tuesday: La Fleur de Cayenne [EN/ES] " La Fleur de Cayenne " (2025) is the latest release from the extraordinary Cuban saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, who has been making good music practically s

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about 2 months ago

Melodies Beyond Dispute [EN/ES] About nine years ago, I started consuming smooth jazz like it was an addiction —way too much smooth jazz. I traveled through Billboard's jazz charts, searching for and filt

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about 2 months ago

¡Samara Joy es real! [ES/EN] Hace un tanto que no tengo mucho tiempo para estar al tanto de los charts de jazz ni para buscar todos los álbumes nominados a los Grammy en las categorías relacionadas con el…

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about 2 months ago

Three Tunes Tuesday: Extraordinarios covers de inolvidables canciones [ES/EN] Hola, melómanos. Hoy les traigo tres versiones de canciones legendarias, inmortalizadas por músicos que figuran en el firmamento como grandes estrellas de todos los tiempos. La…

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