The Charanga Habanera Suspension Concert Restoration Project

Much has been written about the July 1997 Charanga Habanera concert at the Festival de la Juventud y los Estudiantes that resulted in Charanga Habanera's 6-month suspension and the series of events that led to the formation of Dany Lozada y su Timba Cubana, Charanga Forever, and the second great incarnation of Charanga Habanera.

You can click the annotated link for our youtube video on Beyond Salsa Piano, Volume 14 to hear the full story. (on the Timba.com youtube channel) http://goo.gl/xb1c98

This video is an attempt to fuse together the best existing video and audio of each song and reconstruct the concert as accurately as possible.

The video begins at 2:52, halfway through No estamos locos.

SOURCES

1. a poor quality VHS tape that begins with Charanguéate and ends during Usa condón

2. a much better VHS tape that begins during No estamos locos (earlier than tape 1) and ends during Lola Lola (also earlier)

3. a cassette tape of somewhat better audio quality than the videos that begins with the Intro, and continues well past Usa condón to include four more songs including Hay que tocármela, a strong unreleased Charanga Habanera song

You are currently listening to the audio from this tape, which is used when possible to replace the inferior audio from the videos.

CAVEATS

There is no guarantee that all of the music on the audio cassette is indeed from the same concert, although it sounds like it is. If so, we can conclude that the concert was simulcast on television and radio and that only the feed to the television was cut.

Because one VHS cuts off during Lola Lola, after Michel's strip tease antics,many of us incorrectly assumed that this was where the censors cut the TV feed, but the other VHS shows that it was actually during Usa condón that the feed was cut.

REQUEST: If you were at the concert, heard the broadcast, or have picked up any clues from the audio or video, please report your findings inthe comments section! And if you have any other versions of this concert - please contact us ([email protected]) or post them to youtube yourself.

Thank you, Kevin Moore - http://beyondsalsa.info

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:33 No estamos locos
00:05:15 Charanguéate
00:11:26 Nube pasajera
00:18:22 Un disparo en la mirada
00:27:40 Lo siento por ti
00:32:47 Lola Lola
00:44:11 Usa condón
00:58:31 Tanto le pedí
01:01:51 El avión
01:12:48 Hay que tocármela
01:20:30 Hagamos un chen