LATEST NEWS – a concert recording of “Clasicos a lo cubano” from Havana will (quite) soon be released on streaming platforms and Clasicos a lo cubano´s YouTube-channel.
ALMOST LATEST NEWS – NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) are taking down their content on YouTube. That also affects “Clasicos a lo cubano”. Content is said to be made available world wide on NRKs own streaming service. It has still not happened. Info will follow.
Sverre Indris Joner´s ingenious salsa-arrangements have achieved the most authentic-sounding classic-latin-fusion ever and has refuted the prejudices and taken classic-music-lovers and the latin community by surprise. It went viral on YouTube as performed by KORK (Norwegian Radio Orchestra) and Hovedøen Social Club, and the album even reached the #1 on the Mexican World Music Charts Mixup.com.
Clasicos a lo latino is both danceable partymusic and music for conoceurs of the classic repertoire. And for anybody without a necessity for rigid rules and walls between musical genres and quite unlike other symphonic crossover concerts.
This project was first recorded with the renowned Munchner Rundfunk Orchestra and Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion (who commisioned several of the arrangements). It has later been played in Cuba, Italy, Germany, Turkey and in Asia. The performance by KORK in Norway has achieved huge popularity on the YouTube and is regularly on air in cuban television, where the lineup includes the legendary bass player Carlos del Puerto (Irakere).
The “counterfactive music-history-simulation”-idea of transforming music from its original into a different stylistic language has been one of Joners specialties for decades. First with his tango-quartet Tango for 3 doing classics as well as popular tunes as if it came from Buenos Aires´ golden tango-era. Later doing Norwegian popular tunes with the band Hovedøen Social Club, turning them into Cuban dance music of the sixties.
Clasicos a lo cubano is Joners most ambitious stylistic reinterpretaton – with symphony orchestra. Classics from the great masters are filtered through this strange imagination, filling them with the Caribbean flavor, transforming these musical gems into tropical pearls – with the unconfoundable taste and swing of Cuba and the Caribbean…
Starting with Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, via stage music of Bizet and Tchaikovsky to Strauss jr. Grieg and even Wagner, the baroque, classical and romantic eras are treated with a kind of loving disrespect.
The beauty of the idea is that the arrangements has equal respect for both the old classic pieces – with all their harmonic and melodic richness – as well as for the Caribbean rhythmic traditions and structures that is far more sophisticated that any other popular genre. And this new fusion is communicating on a different level than both the classic originals and the salsa genre. And we way ad; luckily it’s not just another cheesy adaptation as seen many times before…
Mexican World Music Charts Mixup.com.
more videos of Clasicos a lo latino/cubano at the record page
