Grupo De Experimentación Sonora ICAICFeaturing: Leo Brouwer
4 (LP)
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (1" rip near edge)
Gatefold sleeve with booklet glued inside.
The Grupo de Experimentación Sonora was set up inside Cuba's national film institute in 1969 under Leo Brouwer, with the stated purpose of teaching young songwriters to read music and the unstated purpose of giving Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Noel Nicola and others a room to work in while the cultural bureaucracy decided what to do with them. What came out was nueva trova with a film composer's palette: electric guitar and flute in counterpoint, Bartókian harmony under a bolero, arrangements that owe as much to Jobim and to the Beatles as to Cuban son.
The numbered Areito albums collected the group's work as the film institute released it, and 4 is among the last before the members went their separate ways. Original Cuban pressings are thin, noisy, badly stored and difficult to find. This one plays.
Release notes
Dark blue label,different catalogue number,slick sleeve Colaboraron: Ana Besa / oboe; Anselmo Febles / voz (en Repentino); Lucas De La Guardia / clarinete; Orlando Rubio / trompeta (en La Nueva Escuela); Paquito Rivera / flauta (en Santiago de Chile)
| A1 | Canción De La Nueva Escuela | 3:38 | |
| A2 | Yolanda | 4:27 | |
| A3 | Cuando Digo Futuro | 3:00 | |
| A4 | Su Nombre Puede Ponerse En Verso | 2:25 | |
| A5 | Si Tengo Un Hermano | 2:46 | |
| A6 | ¡Cuba Va! | 3:05 | |
| B1 | Cancion De Los C.D.R. (Comites De Defensa De La Revolucion) | 3:05 | |
| B2 | Santiago De Chile | 4:41 | |
| B3 | Repentino | 4:05 | |
| B4 | Masa | 3:25 | |
| B5 | Canción De La C.J.C. (Columna Juvenil Del Centenario) | 4:07 |
- Armando Guerra
- Arranged By (A3), Directed By [Dirección Musical]
- Eduardo Ramos
- Arranged By (B1, B2), Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
- Grupo De Experimentación Sonora ICAIC
- Arranged By
- Pablo Menéndez
- Arranged By (B3, B5), Guitar, Trombone, Songwriter, Producer
- Pablo Milanés
- Arranged By (A2), Arranged By (B4), Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
- Silvio Rodríguez
- Arranged By (A1, A5), Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
- Lucas De La Guardia
- Clarinet
- Pablo Labañino
- Design
- Leo Brouwer
- Directed By [Dirección General], Directed By [Dirección Musical]
- Juan Márquez Lacasa
- Directed By [Dirección Musical]
- Leoginaldo Pimentel
- Drums, Percussion
- Paquito Rivera
- Flute (B2)
- Sergio Vitier
- Guitar, Tres, Songwriter
- Ana Besa
- Oboe
- Norberto Carrillo
- Percussion [Cuban]
- Tito Romero
- Photography
- Óscar Pérez
- Photography
- Emiliano Salvador
- Piano, Organ, Drums, Songwriter
- Germinal Hernández
- Recorded By [Grabación]
- Jerónimo Labrada
- Recorded By [Grabación]
- Ricardo Iztueta
- Recorded By [Grabación]
- Orlando Rubio
- Trumpet (A1)
- Anselmo Febles
- Vocals (B3)
- Noel Nicola
- Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
- Sara González
- Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
