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Girardo Rodrigues y Sus Tambores Batá on two songs with Chico O'Farrill, from Chicos hard to find LP: "Brisas Del Caribe" 1960.

3. "Sun Sun Babae" and on 11. "Babalú", with short interesting batá "solos" near the end of the song.
(the Iyá takes a short solo, the Itótele takes a short solo and the Okónkolo takes a short solo)

http://fidelseyeglasses.blogspot.com/2011/04/chico-ofarrill-brisas-del-caribe-con.html

Markito

Markito,

That's Gold, very nice arrangements!!!

Thanks for sharing it.

Saludos,

JG

That's fantastic, Mark!

Until now, I knew the title "Sun Sun Babae" only from the "Havana Jam" Live Sampler (1979).

The Chachálokpafún on this one is pretty much on the 6/8 side for a Havana style ensemble.

The guys are improvising on the batá in "Babalú"! Also, this is the second example which shows that for Giraldo and his men, Rumba Obatala is the appropriate batá rhythm to replace Afro, more than any other batá rhythm - the other example being "Drume Negrita" on the "Afro Tambores Bata" record.

Thank you very much!

Thomas

Thomas Altmann wrote:That's fantastic, Mark!

Until now, I knew the title "Sun Sun Babae" only from the "Havana Jam" Live Sampler (1979).

The Chachálokpafún on this one is pretty much on the 6/8 side for a Havana style ensemble.

The guys are improvising on the batá in "Babalú"! Also, this is the second example which shows that for Giraldo and his men, Rumba Obatala is the appropriate batá rhythm to replace Afro, more than any other batá rhythm - the other example being "Drume Negrita" on the "Afro Tambores Bata" record.

Thank you very much!

Thomas

That second track: "Babalú".. the short "solo's" towards the end are great.
(the Iyá takes a short solo, the Itótele takes a short solo and the Okónkolo takes a short solo)
John Amira told me about this LP years ago, I had never seen or heard of it.
I've kept an eye out for it for like the last three years, saw a copy on Ebay sold by a seller in Argentina which is where I bought it from.
The original pressing in on Orfeon, but the pressing I bought is on DIMSA which was a subsidiary of Orfeon.
The "sound" of the Bata's are really nice.

Great to hear this. Thanks for sharing.
-David