SOTW: Viva Cachao

On this Easter weekend, let's rethink the terms of resurrection. Israel "Cachao" López, who forever swerved the course of the bass in popular music, passed away from kidney failure this morning. From the early 1930s and onward, Cachao has altered the curvature of bass's sound, generously mined its potential, and provided us with many of those funky bottoms we now know it can give us. Here you can read one of the first of what one hopes will be a cavalcade of obituaries. Listen and mourn in your way, before the Estefans can find a way to overdetermine, which is to say, profit off of his passing. For easy access, I recommend Cachao Descargas: the Havana Sessions or tracks off of the Cuban Jam Sessions collection, all available on itunes. If you're more patient, puhleeze fill up a cart and support the good folks over at descarga.com.

Here's an always-interesting ditty that assures us that Cachao's spirit will continue to make a ruckus from somewhere else:
El Fantasma by Cachao


Feliz Pascua (ATV)