New Charanga del Norte recording with prize winning design by Rianne van Male, a graphic design student from Anglia Ruskin University.
New Charanga del Norte recording with prize winning design by Rianne van Male, a graphic design student from Anglia Ruskin University.
Cuban Flute Style is thus a contextualised, analytical study, arising from a combination of Miller’s lessons from Egües, her research in Havana and New York, her subsequent experiences as a charanga bandleader, and the completion of a Leeds University PhD undertaken to study the processes involved in learning the charanga style of improvisation.
My book Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation is now available from all good book stores!
This is someone who knows her stuff and loves nothing more than a good descarga (jam session). She feels Cuban music in her blood, and the band behind her does some sterling work. That she’s the star is beyond doubt, and her freewheeling, spiralling improvisations are joyful to hear. Bonus points for coming from Leeds and the delightful wordplay in the title, but the meat is in the performance, which is as tasty as they come – within Cuba or outside.
Latin music, but not as you may know it, this band are deliciously different and incredibly danceable
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
New review of my new album Look Back in Charanga in Rock n Reel Magazine – Charanga del Norte ‘wonderful as a live act and just as impressive on disc’ and ‘hot, very authentic-sounding music’
Professional photographer Ian Pickles took these pics of us in action last July – www.mybigdayeventphotography.com