Member Since: 2/13/2006
Band Website: TucasaStudio.com
Band Members: Tu Casa Studio in the New York Times
Influences: Tu Casa Studio Recording Artist.
Mariella Wins Billboard Magazine World Songwriting Contest!
Billboard Song Contest
My song Flyaway has won first place in the Billboard Magazine World Songwriting Contest in the Latin category! It was judged among thousands of songs from all over the world,so this is a huge honor!
Flyaway is in spanish and english and has a pretty killin groove! It's also one of the new songs on my upcoming EP due this Spring.
A big huge hug to all who played on this record... Claudio Rochat Felix- drums Nappy G- percussion Dave Cinquegrana-guitar Simon Olsen-bass Jared Jacobs-keys Alicia Rau-trumpet Chris Cuzme-sax Christina Ghubril- backup vocals Sari Schwarz- backup vocals
Produced by Steve Halpern of The Groove Bros Executive Producer-Mariella Gonzalez Mixed by Ted Woelsey
Recorded at Tu Casa Studios and 210 Cook St
Special thanks to friends and fam for love and support! My video release party on Feb 14th will now be a double celebration! Be sure to join me,Good Peoples,and The New Pop!Visit http://billboardsongcontest.com/
Best Music of 2006: Top 100 Editors' Picks (amazon.com)
"Superpop Venezuela" Los Amigos Invisibles [Gozadera Records] Nominated for Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.
As Los Amigos Invisibles grew their musical profile outside of Latin America, the all-covers album SUPERPOP VENEZUELA worked as an endearing love letter to the local pop music of the band's youth. Produced in collaboration with French dance-pop star Dimitri From Paris (who serves in part as a cultural ambassador for North American and European audiences unfamiliar with the original versions of the songs), Los Amigos Invisibles pick favorites from the late 1970s and early '80s, originally performed by more traditional Venezuelan pop stars like Jose Luis Rodriguez but reinterpreted in the group's electronic dance-pop sound. The results are utterly charming.
""Evolucion" Nominated for "Best Tropical Tradicional Album" for the 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards."
ALBUM DETAILS: Title: Evolucion Artist: Plena Libre Date: 2005 Label: Times Square
REVIEW: Not content with being perhaps the best-known purveyors of plena outside of their native Puerto Rico, Plena Libre have dramatically expanded their sound on Evolucion. This is no lame pop-crossover attempt, however, but an album that places the group's preferred styles of plena (basically, a native form of folk music that is to Puetro Rico roughly what calypso is to the Bahamas) and bomba (dramatic, danceable music based on African-originated forms) in the larger context of Afro-Cuban and Latin musical forms. So instead of infusing their material with American pop influences -- an approach that almost never works -- Plena Libre add bits of bossa nova, merengue, and other familiar forms to their own distinctive style. It works a treat, with fleet acoustic guitar trills, honking baritone sax, bata drums, and every imaginable form of hand percussion percolating underneath the group's mass-chanted vocals. In keeping with the group's deep connections to Puerto Rican musical history, however, three of the songs were written by Angel Luis Torruellas, a living legend who would be first pick for Puerto Rico's version of the Buena Vista Social Club, and he provides lead vocals on one track, a fiery, piano-led Latin jazz rendition of his standard "Yenyere." ~ Stewart Mason, All Music GuideAll Music Guide © 2005 All Media Guide, LLC Content provided by All Music Guide ® , a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. We Gift Wrap
Gema Y Pável Art Bembe: Book And 2-CD Set Import CD (Lcd LCD33), Released 2003; Editor's Pick: This is a real project, a book with essays, reproductions of Cuban art by younger artists, and two cds. At its best, the music is a major step forward for both Gema Y Pavel and the descendants of Nueva Trova. It moves Cuban intellectual music into the realm of modern Brazilian work. There's stunning music here, moments of real beauty and intelligence, where traditional Cuban sounds mix with technology and international pop. Highly Recommended. (Peter Watrous, 2004-01-12) Song titles include:
Follow-up with Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby: The New Mixes, Vol. I (out July 13) and come full circle, as some of the hottest artists, DJs and producers from today?s international world of Lain, jazz, electronica, lounge and hip-hop help build a distinctive and contemporary bridge between old and new. Among the ?new-mixers? are Mix Master Mike, Bedrock, Mario Caldato, Jr., Herbert, Cornershop, and Los Amigos Invisibles.
Descemer Bueno makes his debut with big-name backing Descemer Buenos musical journey has taken him a long way: from Santeria and family parties in a hard-core Afro-Cuban barrio in Havana, to jazz workshops and concert halls in California and New York, to South Africa, Mexico, Spain, back to Havana, to New York again, and finally, now, in Miami. No wonder Elegua, the Santeria saint of crossroads and journeys, sits near the door in Buenos North Miami Beach apartment.But theres little sign of his life as a musician: a small drawer of CDs, posters of 1950s Cuban mambo king Perez Prado and camp metal icon Alice Cooper and one of Bueno himself, with girlfriend/collaborator Magilee Alvarez, for his group Siete Rayos. Bueno left his record collection behind with his mother in Cuba. Instead, he carries the music inside him and puts it into his just released album, Descemer Siete Rayo.
HAYDEE is the first album by the Cuban singer Haydee Milanes who is the daughter of the important nueva cancion figure Pablo Milanes. The daughter of Cuban music legend Pablo Milanes steps into the spotlight on this, her debut album, produced and composed by Descemer Bueno (co-founder of Yerba Buena). Milanes was naturally influenced by the music of her homeland as well as Gilberto Gil, Stevie Wonder, Cat Stevens, Ellis Regina, Fela Kuti, Keith Jarrett and great soneros like Miguelito Cuni and Cotan. She finished her music studies in Havana and moved to Switzerland where she took different singing courses. Haydee then joined the quartet of Cuban pianist Hernan Lopez Nussa where she performed Latin Jazz and perfected utilizing her voice as an instrument. "Haydee" was recorded in New York and Havana in collaboration with musicians from Cuba, the U.S., Brazil and Africa.
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Jemeel Moondoc with Denis Charles
Recorded 29 july, 1981, Tu Casa Studio,nyc, "not released until more than twenty years after it was recorded, this major find should not be missed. the sound quality of this studio release is surprisingly good but more importantly jemeel moondoc and denis charles are in outstanding form, with the saxophonist wailing passionately for the length of the album and the drummer egging him on with characteristic panache. while the total time is too short, especially for a CD, each of the four cuts exhibits the sort of stimulating, hardcore blowing that listeners have come to expect from moondoc. the uncanny similarity in sound to early ornette coleman is unmistakable, yet moondoc, of course, is no clone. yet he has the same cry imbedded in his voice, a prayerful yearning, a call from the inner depths of being that strikes an emotional chord. not many horn players could play for forty-plus minutes with only a drummer and keep the listener enthralled the way moondoc does, a tribute to him and to the exquisite drumming of charles. although each of the tunes hover around the ten minute mark, there is not a moment of diminished joy, as the power and forcefulness of the moment infuses every note. some of the best work of each of these artists can be found here, marking this recording as an important discovery and a fine example of free jazz at the highest levels." --steven loewy, all music guide
Cubas rich history of producing incredible singers and musicians exists to this day and actively recruits from its deep talent pool. One new songstress to follow in this tradition is Cubas own Yusa. Her debut, self-titled album shot her into the worlds attention; now she follows it up with Breathe a journey through her influences, which range from Miles Davis jazz to Stevie Wonder soul to Sting rock. A soft, delicate groove backs each sweet vocal; making music that caresses the body and soul. Yusa not only showcases a strong, sexy voice but also her multiple talents on bass, piano and guitar, as well as her ability to form beautiful arrangements on Breathe. Yusa helps the tiny island shake the shackles of the golden age of Cuban music and the repetitive Buena Vista world by creating a beautiful snapshot of 21st century contemporary Cuba on only her second release and creates a hope for the future of her own and Cubas musical growth.
In the realm of "world music," Carlo Vutera has become a force to be reckoned with, having embarked on an entirely original undertaking with his album Ammore. Boleri Napoletani: Neapolitan love songs arranged in the manner of Cuban boleros. A professional tenor, he succeeds in adapting his operatic background to the service of the many types of music he has chosen to perform. And Naples has never seemed so close to Havana, thanks to the arrangements of three remarkable musicians: the groundbreaking pianist Roberto Carcasses; the alto saxophonist Yosvany Terry-Cabrera (best known for his contribution to !Cubanismo!); and the phenomenal drummer Dafnis Prieto. Here, the strings emphasize the romanticism of the original songs without ostentation, and on every track the sense of detail and nuance prevails, particularly in the playing of guest soloists such as Irakere trumpeter Julio Padron and exeptional voice of Anais Abreu. The brass arrangements by Yosvany lend a suggestive Afro-Cuban color to the tunes without overwhelming their Italian roots. One track, "Torna a Surriento," sings the praises of Sorrento and evokes the sirens, to whom myth attributes the founding of Naples: according to the story, one of the sirens perished at the exact future location of the city after throwing herself into the sea to evade the ruse of Ulysses. The song says that you can't leave the Sorrento coast « because of the mermaids, calling you, loving you. ». Music should always be like this: like his compatriots Gianmaria Testa and Romano Zanotti, Carlo Vutera is a singer of many charms.Damien Bonelli
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Record Label: Major/Indie and homemade!
Type of Label: Indie