ALBUM "BESO DE CHOCOLATE"

Third repertoire performed by the Antonio Caraveo Project, where a portrait inspired by tradition is presented Afro-Cuban musical and its passage through the music it inhabits Mexico, eight songs as an original recreation with jazz influences based on rhythms and themes Afro-Antilleans.
In addition to the Afro-Cuban musical influence in Mexico, they cannot be separated other cultural, social and environmental axes such as slavery and its abolition, the Nature of the Caribbean, the racial presence of Afro-Caribbean people in the States Mexicans from Guerrero and Veracruz. Afro-Cuban rhythms such as son montuno, chacha, mambo, boleros, danzón are an inseparable presence of the urban and sound landscape of Mexico, which In this proposal they are recreated in a language of popular music contemporary with jazz influences, made in Mexico.
For the recording of this album "Beso de Chocolate", we have the Participation of:
Bruno Cruz Petit on tenor saxophone and transverse flute. Angel Hoyos in congas. Ephraim Flores on drums. Jordan Sánchez on electric guitar. Antonio Caraveo on electric bass, composition and arrangement.

THEMES OF "BESO DE CHOCOLATE"
1. Chocolate Kiss (Mozambique) Theme that was born as a Blues, musical style also fruit of the inheritance African in American soil that together with jazz are two musics of origin Most influential Americans, here with a rhythm of Cuban origin of "Mozambique".

2. 1888 (Guaguancó)
1888 is the year where slavery ends in Cuba and Brazil, two of the countries with more slave population on the continent. A hopeful song celebrating the Closing of one of the cruelest episodes in human history.

3. Bantu (Nañigo)
Bantu is the general name given to hundreds of African peoples who have shared linguistic traits. Africa as the great mother of music and rhythms that now live in the popular musical culture of Mexico, through its Antillean influence. 4. Black Eyes (6/8) Dedicated to the beautiful eyes of Afro-descendant children, who in Mexico forms an important community of states such as Veracruz and Guerrero.

4. Black Eyes (6/8)
Dedicated to the beautiful eyes of Afro-descendant children, who in Mexico forms an important community of states such as Veracruz and Guerrero.

5. Sugar Cane (Bembé)
It evokes the environment, landscape and climate of the Sugar Cane, intimately cultivated associated with Cuba, and the Mexican producing states such as Oaxaca, Veracruz and Guerrero.

6.6. Soledad de Madrugada (Bolero-Chacha)
The atmosphere of bar and melancholy of a city on the coast of Veracruz.

7. Mambo Toucan (Mambo-Chacha)
Inspired by the innovation of the mambo created by the Cuban musician Damaso Pérez Prado and who impacted the music scene of Mexico in the mid-twentieth century.

8.Costa Smeralda (Songo)
Dedicated to the natural, marine wealth of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.