Tue Dec 22 22:00:47 GMT 2009
I'm always on the lookout for good conga music on the Internet -- there's a lot of great stuff out there.
Recently I came across these two videos made by Isla Percussion to promote their (lovely-sounding!) drums. They're a bit unusual in that they're well produced, so the drum sounds can be easily distinguished and picked out; and in that they're not massively busy, so the apprentice conguero has a better chance of making sense of the grooves !
Firstly, here's a bembe, which features a rendition of a song I know from Honeydrum:
Secondly, here's a rumba guaguanco, which includes some cascara and cahon as well as the congas and singers: