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When applied to music, folklorism occurs when any given kind of folk music functions as a creative stimulus and is in turn used as a wellspring of ideas that reinvigorate a musical language. In “Folklorism”, the source I am tapping into is that of the faux-bozal Afrocubanismo movement of the 1920s and 30s in Cuba. Key figures like poet Nicolas Guillén and the Grenet brothers made artistic contributions that became fundamental in the cultural fabric that defines Cubans. Songs like “Lamento Esclavo”, “Ay, Mamá Inés” and “Drume Negrita” made unabashed lyrical and musical references to Afro-Cuban culture, often alluding to orishas, santeria, and slavery. At a time when even the mighty tumbadora drum (now synonymous with Cuba) was banned in public, this was a movement that valued black working-class street culture from an aesthetic position as truly Cuban.

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Fabian Almazan New York, New York

Born in Cuba, raised in Miami, living in Harlem. Pianist, composer, film composer, nature lover & electronic music stuff manipulator.
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