September 10. Cuba. Had a great flute class with Evelyn. She’s showing me the roots of Cuban flute music in Danson & Charanga. She’s quite a character and we often share ideas. Her English is very understandable and I think…
September 9. Cuba. Good news. A flute teacher has been organised for tomorrow. I get to study the Charanga style of flute in my final week here 🙂 Free day today. Spent the morning being a tourist in Havana. Walked…
September 8. Cuba. Slept 10 hours. Needed it. Whilst plowing through an almond ice cream I Heard a bachata version of: – Michael Jackson’s “I just can’t stop loving you, – Lionel Ritchie’s “Say You, Say Me”, The light is…
September 7. Spent 8 hours mixing and editing the recording session at Egrem studio with Alejandro the sound engineer. I think it was a good idea to mix here at EGREM in Cuba. Apart from the fact that Alejandro was…
September 6. Recording Day 2. So basically today we needed to do an extra take of one track and try the allocated Cuban Song. Some extra percussion was also added by Yaroldy to one track with an Afro Cuban 6/8…
September 5. Recording Day 1. I had a total of eight hours booked for recording, spread over 2 days. My goal was to record as much as possible in the first day, with touch ups on the 2nd day……luckily things…
