Sun Bailante

On Saturday 11^th July Fiesta Sun Bailante will blend Latin and Creole music. By Creole we mean the various islands that have in the past faced slavery and have created an individual language that in most cases derivates from French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Also, at 9:30 join us to learn some steps of Sega, Zouk and Ragga.

Later our DJs Jerome, Herve and Pritesh will mix Latin, Creole, African music and global beats.

Expect Salsa, Merengue, Reggaeton, Ragga, old-Zouk, Maloya, Soca, Latin House, Samba, Afro-beats, and the un-expected.

During the night Frenglish Connexion the amazing Trio with 2 members from Guadeloupe will join us to with a stunning Dancehall, Reggae and Zouk act.

Tropical calor are the words for that evening!

Fiesta Sun Bailante – Latin & Creole

Saturday 11th July 09

8pm to 2am

£7 at the door, £5 on guestlist

(for guestlist please email sunbailante@gmail.com before 4pm on the day)

@ Rubylo  

23 Orchard street

London

W1H 6HL

Tube: Bond Street

Click here for more info

But what does it mean exactly to be Creole? Creole is something of an inheritance from the darkest times of history when the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Netherlanders decided to conquer the world especially Africa, the Americas and Asia.

They realised that it was not economical to the employ people in the colonised countries to take care of their farms, cultivate, works in the mines and so on.

Hence they decided that people from Africa were of a different colour and non-Christian therefore didn’t have a soul and could be submitted to slavery. We have made some short-cuts here but broadly the context is now set up.

Also, at that time there were some tribal wars in the west coast of Africa and the colonisers used these conflicts to buy slaves who would be brought to the Americas, the Caribbean islands and many other places as Reunion, Mauritius, Cap Verde, Madagascar….

Many died on the ships but many survived to live in atrocious conditions.

These slaves didn’t understand the language of their masters and were not literate. Also, they tried to replicate their words using what they could hear and adding elements of their own language.

This is how the various Creole languages are born as deformations of the coloniser’s language by the slaves.

Nowadays, various islands use Creole as main language at home or in the street whilst the language of he old coloniser is used at school, at work or in the administrations.

Amongst the places where people speak Creole you will have Reunion, Mauritius, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haïti, Cabo-Verde…

 
Creole are also the people who come from these places and are proud to be!

 

After a weekend of Colombian vibes all over our ears… we have decided to calm down a little bit and to listen to some dulce (sweet) songs that you may never have heard of also here is a selection of beautiful suave gentle smoothies….

The first one is from the Brazilian singer Vanessa da Mata from her last album Sim with a fusion of Forró and Caribbeanism…as Sly andRobbie the reggae artists seem to have helped for this album…

We love it the name of the song Pirraça

 Vanessa da Mata - Pirraça

The second song is from Oliver N’Goma the Gabonese singer of zouk this music originated from the French Caribbean islands which has spread to Africa.

Oliver is famed for many of his songs amongst them Bane or Alphonsine but few years ago he came with another beautiful act ‘Adia’.

Finally the song O’sanam O’sanam from the film Jurm

Anyway we are now on the way to Portugal to dance to the Agolan and Cape Verdean Kizomba so you should have some songs in Portuguese very soon here!

May the summer the sun!  
 

On Saturday 13^th June Fiesta Sun Bailante will celebrate the music from Colombia mixing Cumbia, Vallenato-pop, Salsa to other Tropical beats from Latin America, the Caribbean islands and Africa.

It will take place at Rubylo in central London near Bond Street station, ‘the sexiest venue in this area’.

Expect hot Vallenato-pop, Cumbia, Salsa, Merengue, Reggaeton, Ragga, Soca, Latin House, Samba, Afro-beats, Indian sounds and the un-expected.

From 8pm we will play beautiful vintage lounge of the world, it’s ideal with a tropical cocktail!

At 9:30 learn your first steps of Merengue before Jerome, Pritesh and Herve blend their hip-shaking tropical sounds!

There will be a live performance of the band Vallenato.co.uk that evening

This week we went roaming the streets of London looking for the Cimarron of London. In the times of slavery, some slaves decided to take their freedom and fled from the plantations.

They ran away, away from their master who would kill them if ever found. They ran away as far as they could to the most inextricable jungles or the highest peaks.

These people were called the Cimarrons in Latin America ‘the run away’. In the countries conquered by England they were called Maroon and by France Zesclaves Marrons or Neg’ Marrons.

This week the festival of the same name presented the African face of the sub-continent to London and made a big place for Colombia which has a very rich history worth discovering.

We listened to some great Cumbia band’s Koguiwa, Angelica y la Papayera and wanted to share some songs with you.

The first song is la Tracionera from Pastor Lopez and the second la Piragua from Grabriel Romero.

Enjoy!

If you asks us who is the king of Colombian salsa, we will say without a doubt Joe Aroyo, because the sounds you will find in his music are very varied, have a very Caribbean feel to them and a taste of Africa.

We love this man from Cartagena and would love to see him in London one day.

For the moment be sure to hear some songs from Joe Aroyo on Saturday 13^th June.

From the most to the least famous:

Rebellion

La noche

En Barranquilla me quedo

In 2001, Mister Shakira met a funky bunch of Colombians from Bogotá.

It might sound strange to some but these people were not big fans of salsa and were actually more into rock-pop.

Thanks to them he discovered the very heart of Colombian pop-rock with Cabas and Juanes.

Whilst Cabas is still relatively unknown outside America, Juanes has become a popular phenomenon as his concert recently in the Shepherds Bush Empire demonstrates.

Also we wanted to share with you two songs that will make any fan of Colombian pop-rock dance.

The first one is la Cadena De Oro from Cabas.

The second is Tres from the last album of Juanes mixing Vallenato sounds to pop. 

Visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum, I came across a poster advertising our Fiesta Sun Bailante on a wall next to some other very famous bills that have made history.

I have asked M. Shakira if he was the one who put it up and he answered with the negative.

Also, who put our poster in this famous museum of London?  This still has to be elucidated!

We are now organising a competition, find this poster in the V&A, send us an email that tells us in which mini exhibition it is located with a picture of you next to it and you will win:

-          a CD of music from Reunion Island

-          Free entry for you and your 2 best friends at one Fiesta Sun Bailante

-          A complementary Sun Bailante Tropical punch for you and your 2 friends.

Our email: sunbailante@gmail.com 

The winners will be the 3 persons who send us first their pictures and answer. In the case the poster has been removed take the picture of you next to the place it was put.

One of the pictures below will give you a clue on the mini exhibition where the poster is.

The competition terminates Friday 12^th June at Midnight

Good luck!

THE CLUE:

United Haitian in the UK the new charity that helps to provide education to children in Haiti based in London is organising a fund raising event this Saturday 16^th May.

Also, we would like to welcome you to this event knowing that it would help children who definitely need some support in a country where the condition of living can be quite difficult.

Also, they are throwing a tropical party  on Saturday @ Association House

Near Manor House, North London.

We hope you can make it!

You will find more info below!

Samba is about emotion, it is also about motion.

Earlier this year a group of women came to one of our Fiesta and set fire to the dance floor.

The other guests and us were wondering who they were and how come they could dance so well.

After few investigations by inspector Mr. Shakira, we discovered that in fact these creatures of fire where actually professional samba dancers and that were part of a group called Simply Samba.

We thought it could be great to invite them to our launch party in Rubylo and they accepted.

The result is a show that we will never forget!

Check by yourself and enjoy!

By the way you can find them on www.myspace.com/simplysamba