Tag archive for ‘La Babosa Azul’
Ciro and Claudio let go by Cuban state security
News in Spanish is here. Ciro can’t drive away from Castro’s bull**** Cuban dissident Jorge Luis García Pérez (aka Antunez). Ciro and Claudio were arrested while publicly expressing their solidarity for Antunez, who is ailing from a prolonged hunger strike. Two samples of Ciro — thrashing mad in PPR’s “El Submarino” (yeah, the one I [...]
Ciro of Porno Para Ricardo and La Babosa Azul Arrested in Cuba
Further proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same, Castro Inc’s agents have arrested Ciro while he was showing support for well-known dissident Antunez. The news just came in less than an hour ago. I’ll post more as I find out more. UPDATE: Here’s the email from Charlie composed at 3:45 [...]
La Babosa Azul website officially up and running
It looks beautiful and very informative (if you know your espani) (or use a web-based translation engine), and it’s right here. Just for fun, here’s the bio as read through the “brain” of Yahoo’s Babel Fish: Our friendly of this powerful alternative band present/display their independent musical project in the rockera scene of Havana. In [...]
Stuck on a blue snail
I’ve really been getting into Cuando amanezca el dia, the free full-length project from La Babosa Azul (The Blue Snail) which I presented as a guest download at area1234 after Charlie Bravo gave me the link. La Babosa Azul is a Cuban alt-rock group fronted by Ciro Diaz Penedo and Renay Kairus of Porno Para [...]
Straight Outta Cuba (via Poland) — La Babosa Azul
Charlie Bravo just turned me on to a new Cuban group, La Babosa Azul, fronted by Porno Para Ricardo’s lead guitarist, Ciro Diaz Penedo. Their full-length project, Cuando amanezca el dia, is nylon-string acoustic guitar driven folk music, although you can still detect a rock edge in the occasional electric guitar embellishments. And Ciro is [...]
GUEST DOWNLOAD at area1234: La Babosa Azul – Cuando amanezca el día
STRAIGHT OUTTA POLAND VIA CUBA: If you know your espani you’ll get more out of this, but even if you don’t you’ll love the sounds. This is intense Polish folk music with a Cuban/rock edge from Ciro of anti-Castro Cuban punk rockers Porno Para Ricardo. The download is a full-length .rar file with artwork and documentation [...]
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