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Oregonian, A&E
Tim DuRoche
7-06-07
The Cuban Chef: John Connell Maribona
“The charismatic “barbaro” behnd the group Cana Son, John Connell Maribona is a vocalist and the chef-owner of well-regarded Cuban restaurant Pambiche. Portland-raised by a family of Cuban émigrés, “Juanito” Maribona developed an interest in his ancestral musical roots foraging through ethnomusicological archives while studying abroad. Years in punk-rock bands prepared him for the role as leader of one of Portland’s most successful Latin music groups. (And years behind the line at restaurants such as Greek Cucina prepared him for Pambiche, which he runs with his wife and partner, Hada Salinas.) Full of animated electricity, Maribona leads the tightly coiled outfit through the rich pre-salsa tradition of Cuban son music. The countrypolitan cousin of the more throbbing mambo, son is a vivid, earthy music, steeped in lilting Spanish posey and buoyed by pulsing bass, strummed/plucked strings and a sensual brassiness that dares you not to dance. With de rigueur Cuban spice and rhythmic precision, the players in Cana Son follow the conjunto de son instrumentation of acoustic guitar, the smaller tres guitar, upright bass, trumpet and percussion. They evoke a certain pre-revolutionary Cuban nostalgia with songs by Ignacio Pineiro, Arsenio Rodriguez, Felix Chapottin and Beny More, among others. Cana Son is not the only Cuban-inspired band locally (the excellent Afincando, led by Salvadoran timbalero Giovanni Cruz; and Alfredo Hernandez-Froment and Yovanny Perez’s Cubaneo both come to mind), but with their highly successful Mambo Lounge gigs, Cana Son continues to be smack-dab in the middle of the clave with the dance crowd.”
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Caña Son ………practitioners of traditional Cuban son music.
“deep Cuban music”…………the Oregonian
Caña Son is a Cuban son band that plays traditional son music. The group focuses on popular Cuban son from the turn of the last century through the nineteen fifties. Following son music’s history out of the Eastern Provinces of Cuba to the Capital of Havana and beyond. Son is the forefather of contemporary salsa music and is said to be the most important genre of Cuban music. Caña Son covers material from favorite son giants such as Trio Matamoros, Guillermo Portabales, Celina y Reutilio (Celina Gonzalez), Ramón Veloz, Joseíto Fernández, Ignacio Piñeiro (Septeto Nacional), Compay Segundo (Los Compadres), Eliades Ochoa (Cuarteto Patria), Ñico Saquito, Arsenio Rodriguez, Felíx Chapottín, Beny Moré, La Sonora Matancera, Celia Cruz, Cachao, and many others. Contemporary son revivalist such as Juan de Marcos González (Sierra Maestra, Buena Vista Social Club and Afro Cuban All-stars) Albita Rodríguez, Polo Montañez, Jesus Alemany’s Cubanísmo, etc., are all excellent examples of what this band strives for. The group follows the classic conjunto de son line up of acoustic guitar, tres guitar, upright bass, trumpet and Cuban percussion.
Band Info
John Connell-Maribona – vocals and percussion
Cuban-American bandleader, John Connell-Maribona directs Caña Son on the traditions of Cuban song form. A devout academic of Caribbean music, John studied ethnomusicology at the Archivo Historico de Santiago. A contemporary disciple of son cubano, John aims to pay homage to the originators of this music by digging deep into the depths of the son repertoire to resurrect classics by the greatest composers of the genre.
Sherman Floyd– guitar and vocals
Sherman Floyd (guitar and vocals) moonlights during daylight hours as a high school Spanish Teacher where he enjoys using music in his classes to get students excited about language and culture. He has studied and traveled in Mexico, Spain, Central America. He studied Trova cubana at the Universidad de Havana with Vicente Feliu, Cesar Portillo de la Luz, Compay Segundo and sang with Silvio Rodriguez. He performs locally with the Teatro Milagro, Cuban folkloric group Omo Iré and the Mexican Folklórico group Cosecha Mestiza with his wife Rosa, a teacher and dancer from Guadalajara.
Ivan Alamo – tres guitar, guitar and vocals
A native of Havana, Cuba, Ivan brings the signature sound of the Cuban tres guitar to Caña Son. A veteran of the Old Havana bar and café circuit, Ivan played in typical son trios and conjuntos that performed daily for tourists from around the globe.
Keith Brush aka “el cepillo”- bass
Born to play bass, “el Cepillo” was performing with The Billings Symphony Orchestra by the age of 17. For the past several years “el Cepillo” has performed in a number of jazz, rock and theater groups around the NW.
Giovanni Cruz – percussion
A native of El Salvador, Giovanni grew up in Los Angeles, where he discovered Cuban music. He studied percussion with Arturo Puerto also known as Papo Conga (Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Dave Valentin, El Gran Combo). Giovanni was also sound engineer for several Los Angeles area Latin clubs and musicians extracting much knowledge and experience from the thriving L.A. salsa scene. Giovanni moved to Portland in 1991 and over the last 12 years has played with some of Portland’s top Latin bands (La Mayor Salsa, Conjunto Alegre, Barrio Latino and Alfredo Muro).
Milko Vigil-Escalera - vocals and percussion
A native of Havana, Cuba, Milko studied at the Escuela Elemental de Música and at the Conservatorio Ignacio Cervantes de La Habana. Later he studied with Grammy winning percussion master Roberto Viscaino at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. While in Mexico Milko recorded and performed with Latin pop act “Itzel” (musical director Elder Ruelas) and the afrocuban folkloric group “Rumbata Del Yoruba” (musical director Roberto Viscaino). In Portland Milko also performs with Cubaneo, Grupo Condor, Cuba Ache, Ramsey y sus Montunos and Jojuba.
Farnell Newton - trumpet
Farnell Newton was born in Miami, FL. He received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2001. There, he studied privately with Wendell Logan, Neal Creque, Kenny Davis, and Michael Philip Mossman. After graduation, Newton moved to Portland. Farnell has shared the stage and performed with a number of known artists including, Aretha Franklin, Grupo Heavy, Humberto Ramirez, Marvin Santiago, James Moody, Vanessa Rubin, Muhal Richard Abrams, Bobby Torres and Ramsey Embick. In Portland, Farnell performs with Caña Son, The Mel Brown Septet, Thara Memory Super Band and St. James/Wood Nontet.
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