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"Record of the Month
August 2006"
Observer Music Magazine
With their unorthodox style, three rappers from Havana are putting warm, sinuous twists on hip hop.
Whatever idea you might have of how Cuban music sounds today, this album will confound it. To categorise it as rap is to understate its originality and appeal - we need another phrase to describe a melodic, talking vocal style, now that product placement careerists have made such a travesty out of the American hip hop legacy. I understand this group calls its music Free Hop. That’ll do fine for me.
Charlie Gillett
First published in July issue of Observer Music Monthly
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Diaz and her group [Free Hole Negro] say they are not trying to imitate anything American--they are proud to be Cuban and inject their own Cubanismos into their rap and techno mixes.
Lorenza Muñoz,
LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Una de las agrupaciones de hip hop más sobresalientes dentro del creciente movimiento que este género experimenta en la Isla.
AFROCUBAWEB
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Free Hole Negro no es sólo un grupo de rap. Es un proyecto audiovisual que también experimenta con la imagen, los vídeos y el sonido. A diferencia de otras agrupaciones, ésta compone e interpreta su propia música.
Mauricio Vicent
EL PAIS
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The group Free Hole Negro was asked to explain their name on television. They said that besides being an obvious pun (free hole=frijol=black bean), it was calling for a space where all black people could be free.
Margot Olavaria
RAP AND REVOLUTION: HIP-HOP COMES TO CUBA
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Free Hole Negro ha desarrollado una línea de trabajo en la que mezcla música cubana –son, rumba, guaracha– con hip hop, trip hop, rap, el jazz, el dub y el house.
WWW.PORTALDENEGOCIOS.CL
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... el significado del nombre encierra una estética más bien cool, distante de la agresividad que Free Hole Negro encierra: un juego de conceptos que que ha tipificado a muchos de los mejores grupos de hip hop que se mueven en el uso de la energía, desde la alusión a nuestra escena.
Joaquín Borges Triana
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Tienen una intención muy clara: alimentar al público a través de unas líricas urbanas, libres, cargadas de crítica social, con una alquimia de sonoridades y contradicciones. Todo esto convierte a los Superfinos Negros (nombre de su último CD), en el grito mestizo de la música, que es en resumen, la fuerza que atrae y une todas las cosas que pasan por su camino.
Lilián Pallares
"EL SABOR DULCE DEL FREE HOLE NEGRO"
- Various 2006
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SUPERFINOS NEGROS Produced by TCI Rapem Inc.- PM Records. 2004. (Warner)
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An explosive band of 10 musicians, born in the Habanas underground music environment is coming to Europe , to present their new album "Superfinos Negros" (Warner) after their successful participation in the movie Habana Blues. A winning mix of Funk, Rumba, Jazz, Mambo, Drum&Bass, Son, Reggae....
Free Hole Negro was born in Cuba in 1999, developing the influence and the spirit of the Habanas underground music to the point of creating their own style: the Free Hop!
It is a style that combines all the current international musical trends with the most traditional of the Cuban rhythms. Rap, Son Montuno, Reggae, Drum & Bass, Rumba, Mambo, Hip-Hop, Funk are all harmonized together.... the result is an original creation, a sound with its own, distinct identity.
Free Hole Negro stands for pure energy. Their name plays upon words referring to the energy produced both by the black holes in space as well as by the black beans (frijoles), a typical Cuban popular food.
Superfinos Negros is their brand new, first album. It is the result of five years of work, spent playing in many festival and concerts. It is the mature expression of their musical research.
Currículum vitae
Participation as actors in the movie as well as musician in the original soundtrack of Havana Blues.
Participation in the movie Desconectados.
Participation with Isaac Delgado to Festival de cine internacional de la Habana.
Participation with Roberto Carcasses nel Festival de jazz de la Habana
Live concert whit Los Muñequitos de Matanzas at the Festival de la rumba.
Participation on the Marina Hemingway at the Festival de cine 2001.
Live concert at the festival de Hip Hop de la Habana, special Participation del 2002 con Changuito ,Tata Güines y el grupo Kisha 25.
Participation at the Cubadisco 2003
Participation at the Festival de reggae internacional.
Live concert at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión dellHavana.
Participation at the program Lonely Planet Six Degrees(Toby Amies)
Participation at the live concert The Roots en la casa de la música cubana.
Live concerts intercambio culturale Cuba-Francia.
Featuring with X Alfonso y Síntesis en el Nells Club de New York.
Participation with disco X Moré di X Alfonso, nomination Grammy latino.
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