Journey Without Maps brings you vintage, rare, and underground global music from uncharted sonic territories. Every week, I unearth a new musical landscape: African soul & funk, Latin rhythms, eastern European electronica, Middle East psychedelic, Asian surf rock ⦠and more.
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Bolero, chachacha, conga, guajira, mambo, pachanga, rumba, son, salsa. These sounds are defined by â and transcend â slavery, colonialism, revolution, and exile. From Havana to Miami and New York, from Dakar to Kinshasa, Cuban rhythms live on, reinterpreted by orchestras, soñeros, and the shaking of hips.
Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez "Mis Dos Pequeñas" from "Cachaito" Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco "Quimbara" from "Celia & Johnny" El Niño de Atocha "Oru Para Changó" from "Sacred Rhythms of Cuban SanterÃa" Monguito El Unico & Doh Albert "Africa In Cuba" from "Musica Negra In The Americas" Septeto MachÃn "El Guateque" from "El Guateque" Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro "El Son Hay Que Llevarlo en el Corazon" from "El son de Cuba" Combo Tiempos Nuevos "De la Fiesta la Mejor" from "Si, Para Usted - the Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, Vol. 1" Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban "Mambo Sinuendo" from "Mambo Sinuendo" Omara Portuondo "Mueve la Cintura Mulato" from "Flor de Amor" Abelardo Barroso "La Hija de Juan Simón (with Orquesta Sensación)" from "Cha Cha Cha (with Orquesta Sensación)" Ibrahim Ferrer "Hay Que Entrarle a Palos a Ese" from "Buenos Hermanos" Eliades Ochoa "el Cuarto de Tula" from "A la Casa de la Trova" Los Guaracheros de Oriente "Patria querida" from "Putumayo Presents: Cuba" Los Reyes '73 "Adeoey" from "Si, Para Usted - the Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, Vol. 1" Conjunto Campesino Cuyaguateje "guateque Campesino" from "Soundtrip Cuba"