Habana Abierta | fr

This is the OST of Benito Zambrano's Habana Blues, shot in Cuba in 2005, which won a Goya and a CEC Award for Best Music. "The movie is more about the music than the story of the two young musicians. The lyrics contain criticism of problems in Cuba like poverty and electricity outages, but the film also contains comments on such criticism. The two musicians, Ruy and Tito, whose music is a mix of traditional Cuban music and more modern music like rap, get a chance at an international breakthrough through a US record company, but for this they have...

In the early 90s, a new generation of composers, musicians, sculptors, authors, actors, etc. emerged with its own identity in Havana, even though some of their creations had already been well-known for some years in the islands cultural circles. The hopes, outlooks, anxieties of our generation, personified by culture, are gaining ground in Cubas cultural landscape and around the world, through the interest our culture rouses. One member of this creative generation is Habana Abierta, whose music is an integral part of Cuba's cultural heritage. To understand Habana Abierta, we have to talk about Gema y Pável, who undertook something...