Orquesta Akokán - Un Tabaco para Elegua (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

From the self-titled debut album Orquesta Akokán, out now on Daptone Records.
CD/LP/Digital: dapt.one/orques...
Starring: Juliet de la Caridad Del Monte Muñoz, José "Pepito" Gómez, José Miguel Gómez
Directed by Joel Pront
Produced by Jacob Plasse

[@Bruno_Moretto]

Bravo! Alaroye Elegua, caminos abiertos para todos nosotros 🙏🏻

[@jimward3352]

My favorite band of the last decade! I hardly understand a word he sings but I completely believe it!

[@jesusmiramontes5866]

Soy mexicano y me encanta la música de Cuba espero pronto conocer ese bonito país!

[@huesos_azules]

No

[@FerGuevara14]

​@@huesos_azules Prófugo del ácido fólico

[@LuisVazquez-qy8rd]

X2 hermano

[@zeidycanetti1536]

Arriba la Música Cubana!!!!!!!! Me encantó!

[@keepupmcgee5099]

Beautiful music is beautiful music.

[@josemonterrubio3355]

Esto es música carajo, y de la bella y grandiosa Cuba. Un gran hito Akokán.

[@CarlosAlvarez-zd7qd]

Excelente y admirable como logran dar con ese color y brillantez del sonido clásico y representativo de las big bands cubanas de la década de los 50´s..............si se puede hacer buena música aun !!!

[@brunoc6843]

Carlos Alvarez totalmente de acuerdo

[@bakalakadaka7000]

Amazing music. Amazing musicians. Amazing recording. Simply amazing.

[@mauriciohernandez182]

Los quiero en mi boda, no todo es reggaeton chavos en pleno siglo XXI existen verdadera música que te hace disfrutar la vida sin faltarle a la mujer

[@alejandropacheco2633]

Solo Cuba ... Solo cuba..🇲🇽✌️👍🌲☢️🔊🎹🎺

[@juancarlosjaramillo60]

Maravilloso

[@PedrookG]

Vocalizado por el Cubano Jose "Pepito" Gomez, La voz dinamita de Miami!

[@saltyginger777]

I can't wait to see them this week! 😍

[@SeriouslyLeslie]

This is my favorite song of theirs.

[@corkysnickers]

...this is so cool... makes me feel like a kid headed for the beach in about 1968 or so ...cuban am stations one could pick up in s fla...really nice...ty

[@Roberta-Besito-De-Coco]

Que ricoooo! Bella la orquesta y la voz de José Pepito Gomez

[@kilviadaniellekaleb2290]

Maravilhoso!🎺🎤🎧

[@feliperamirezmonasterio4696]

Excelente... gran voz, letra y ritmo envolventes. Un agrado escucharlos!!

[@SandyCheeks63564]

This is gorgeous

[@bluecloudsz5902]

Que Hermosa Cansion !

[@godzillayo69]

Gracias. This gives me hope for music ❤

[@lolobanugues]

¡¡NO FUMES ESA VOZ ES UN TESORO !! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@MorganHertzen]

Don’t understand a word of it - but I dig it.

[@SaborOnTheBay]

Agggggguuaaa!

[@subjetil]

maravilhoso! Parabéns, ¡Daptone!

[@ismaelholguin5425]

Que musica ! ❤️

I LOVEEEE THIS SONG! EDIT*** I just saw them thank you! Keep up the great work

[@jimward3352]

I'm so jealous! I had tickets for a show that was cancelled due to COVID and now that they're touring again they're not coming anywhere near here!

[@tecaplieu]

uy excelente voz, me recuerda esa prodigiosa voz de Miguelito Valdez, aunque el cantante tiene su propio color, excelente

[@Blackcrow411]

Magnifique !!!

[@androidedecarne5818]

Tremenda banda.

[@marcelinovaleroalcaraz4249]

Cáspita, que si uno quiere saber lo que significa elevado a la enésima potencia basta con decirle que esto es arte y elegancia elevados a la enésima potencia, y comprenderá sin problema el significado. Veo que un comentarista, Bakalaka Daka, hace un comentario de ocho palabras y la mitad de ellas es la palabra amazing repetida cuatro veces. Pues sí: asombroso, asombroso, asombroso, asombroso.

[@fernandomartinezacero2766]

Qué bárbaro! produce felicidad.

[@brunoc6843]

Tremenda cancion

[@jonhfredysuazamontoya7834]

Que sabrosura,señores este cantante que sabor tiene.se me parece en su estilo a Mr Babalu.

[@Bruno_Moretto]

Ase!

[@angeltorres4089]

Awwwwww shhhhiiiiiite is that Desi?!!! Fly as hell!

[@VarnasL]

Can anyone share lyrics for that song? It sounds so good I feel bad for not understanding majority of it

[@keepupmcgee5099]

I feel the same way, but I love it

[@cinthiaferreiradesouza3551]

Som de primeira!

[@juanacevedo2808]

Que sabor tremendo pepito.

[@Parespirar]

como me cabe una salsita rica pa bailar apretaitos

[@irmakarenpichardobeltran2078]

buenísima rola!

[@MrBlueVert]

yeaaaaaaah! thanks daptone!!

[@r3dl4k35]

Grim Fandango brought me here

[@elausraliano]

¿Está en vinilo?

[@DJParkeriDreamCEO]

very dope!

[@suzasuzanne5055]

❤

[@NikkiSou]

Does anyone know if the rhythm on the first half of the song has a specific name? I have heard a lot of folks say son, but it sounds different than the son and son montuno rhythms that I’m more familiar with

[@cesarcastro5397]

The first part its bembe yoruba afrocuban this type of sound was very comun in the 50's in cuban music if you heard miguelito valdez and others cuban of that era you'll recognize it immediately

[@NikkiSou]

Cesar Castro THANK YOU!!!

[@BranMarPercussion]

Although Yoruba culture is at the center of this song, the rhythm in the first part of the song is NOT bembé. Rather, it was a rhythm generically called "afro" that was commonly used from the 1930s to the end of the 1950s to accompany popular music that dealt with themes of traditional African religion and culture, or perhaps songs remembering the enslavement of their people in the not very distant past. This "afro" rhythm was sometimes used to accompany songs based on lullabies sung by Afro-decendent domestic workers ("nannies") to the babies of the wealthy and light-skinned families they worked for. The "afro" rhythm was also sometimes played with songs derived from the calls street vendors (who were overwhelmingly dark skinned, as opposed to the light skinned Gallegos who seemed to own all of the nice brick and mortar stores) would use to hawk their products. Several other places had their own rhythms that were also generically referred to as "afro," so here in the US that rhythm was often referred to as "afro-cubano." In Cuba, they referred to their rhythm simply as "afro" since it was their rhythm. Today, the afro rhythm and the music that accompanied it is considered by many to be an archaic rhythm that belongs to an era in the distant past, perhaps the way we in northamerica might think of "dixieland" style jazz. The afro rhythm is rarely heard in Cuban or Puerto Rican popular music these days. Occasionally, if you listen closely, you might catch an arrangement that uses the afro rhythm for maybe four or eight measures to imply the era from which that rhythm came. This song and video for "Un Tabaco Para Elegua" is a rare example of a modern song that uses the afro rhythm as a substantial part of the arrangement. But the use of the afro rhythm is still the same - to evoke the era of the classic barber shop and grand theaters that are depicted in the video. Despite the fact that many consider this rhythm to be archaic, I find that it often provokes strong nostalgic emotions for a bygone era. There are still many people of a certain age (if not our parents then certainly our grandparents) who whenever they hear this rhythm they are immediately transported back to their first dance, their first kiss, their first love, perhaps even their first heartbreak. Play this rhythm for people of that age and I promise you there will always be a few tears. I enjoy this rhythm and its repertoire very much. I love those recordings of Celia Cruz singing in front of La Sonora Matancera long before she was crowned "La Reina de la Salsa." I'm thrilled that Orquesta Akokán has made the afro rhythm a relevant part of 21st century music.

[@nz3745]

where can i find lyrics?

[@roxyiconoclast]

Анастасия Заикина I was able to get them from Daptone Records. Here they are: Un Tabaco para Elegua En un santo celebrado en casa de mi compadre Me llevaron invitado a conocer un Babalawo y a una madrina que era muy buena, Ay Dios Ella me dijo oye mundele no te quedes parado allá Y busca un cabo de tabaco prendelo pa’ tu Elegua Y tu verás que todas las puerta se abrirán un consejo para ti, criollo cuando quieras refrescar guerrero soplale un trago de aguardiente y agüita Y pide que todo lo malo se vaya de ti, Ay Dios Y si tú quieres echar pa’ lante Mundele Y clavar tu bastón en la tierra tienes que cantar así: Elegua (Coro: Enciende tu tabaco y pónselo a Elegua) Y conversa con él en la mañana bien temprano (Coro: Enciende tu tabaco y pónselo a Elegua) Pidele, pidele, pidele que te abra los caminos y que te de la luz que vendrá (Coro: Enciende tu tabaco y pónselo a Elegua) Y si lo quieres encender camina y prende el fogón (Coro: Enciende tu tabaco y pónselo a Elegua) Prendelo, prendelo prendelo y tu verás (Coro: Enciende tu tabaco y pónselo a Elegua) Mira, los mundeles lo prendieron ya (Coro: Enciende tu tabaco y pónselo a Elegua) Pa’ que tu veas, pa’ que tu veas que todas las puertas se abrirán (Coro: Enciende tu tabaco y pónselo a Elegua) Oye criollo préndeselo y ponlo ya (Coro: Enciende tu tabaco y pónselo a Elegua) Y tu veras que to camino enseguida se abrirá Abre, abre Elegua (Coro: Tremendo babalawo y que madrina tan buena) Era muy complaciente me daba lo que yo pidiera (Coro: Tremendo babalawo y que madrina tan buena) Yo la pase muy bien en la fiesta aquella (Coro: Tremendo babalawo y que madrina tan buena) Me dijeron que todo va bien, que se van abrir las puertas (Coro: Tremendo babalawo y que madrina tan buena) Si la noche de anoche volviera yo me la gozaría entera (Coro: Tremendo babalawo y que madrina tan buena)

[@aranjuezlc2561]

@@roxyiconoclast I bought their cd but the booklet doesn't include the lyrics. I checked the record label's web and I wasn't able to find anything. Is there some link containing the lyrics of all the songs? Thank you very much

[@roxyiconoclast]

Aranjuez LC Someone at Daptone sent me a PDF of all the lyrics from the album, in response to an email I sent to [e-mail]. Hope you can get them too. Good luck!

[@aranjuezlc2561]

@@roxyiconoclast :) Thanks for your help, I'll try it

[@ajifunk]

🎶💀🎶

[@amairanigarciamartinez6998]

Alguien me puede decir el origen de la orquesta

[@roxyiconoclast]

Hay un sitio web en ingles, orquestaakokan.com. También hay una buena entrevista con el cantante José Pepito Gomez aquí: www.cibercuba.com/noticias/2019-07-10-u192519-e20037-s27315-akokan-nuevos-reyes-mambo

[@dasbell7916]

What are the lyrics

[@soulmansoul]

LIKE

[@EMIRIANOROCHA]

un cantor com fraca voz ... mas gosto da canção ;)

[@salvaambros3834]

Impresionante musica, que gran voz !!!!!!!!

[@Maurisongo72]

Ase !