There are seven of them, they are all only about thirty years old and they have already set their sights very high. With a suburban Havana look (tracksuits, dreadlocks and baseball caps on back to front), the members of Asere (pronounced aséré, meaning “my friend” in the...
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There are seven of them, they are all only about thirty years old and they have already set their sights very high. With a suburban Havana look (tracksuits, dreadlocks and baseball caps on back to front), the members of Asere (pronounced aséré, meaning “my friend” in the local slang) take a malicious pleasure in jostling the music of the Cuban granddads in order to give it a new youth.
However, this attitude is by no means iconoclastic: more like a healthy respect for the past allowing them to lean on it in order to create new things. Whilst using the tonalities of “Son”, determined in the 30s, with guitar, tres (small guitar with three double strings), double-bass, brass and percussion, their compositions and their covers of little known pieces reveal great originality, stemming from exuberance and modernity. Quite obviously these youngsters are not playing for the tourists.
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