RAZA is this WEDNESDAY at CIELO :: RSVP for Reduced!

In the spirit of the trend toward “retro” concepts, it is with fanfare that the team of Joann Jimenez and Benny Soto present the effort of a collaboration called RAZA*.


Both Joann (of Dominican descent) and Benny (of Puerto Rican descent) were featured in the same issue of Time Out, New York (Issue No. 496, NIGHT VISIONARIES: Meet the Unsung Heroes of New York's After-dark Soirees). They were among a select few of those that have been hailed as integral in keeping nightlife fresh and alive in, what many would consider to be, the capital of the world...no small feat.

Being of like-mind, and all that has come from their "training" in New York's underground music scene, it would seem only natural for Joann and Benny to combine their respective abilities to foresee what is missing in New York's nightlife- thus the conceptualization of RAZA.

To inaugurate RAZA, they have selected two of the NYC's underground's more prolific DJ's/musical programmers: Angel Rodriguez (Slam Mode/Desvio Musica) and Juan Valentin. These veritable old-schoolers promise to take the listener and elevate him/her on a musical journey from the Old World "calles" of Latin American ancestral homelands to the streets of El Barrio, NYC. Featured will be the combination of new and throw back sounds that have been the result of musical fusions of the
multi-cultural peoples that make up Latinos... salsa; rhumba;
deep house; boogaloo; soul; electronica; Afro-Latin;
Bossa Nova; folkloric; Latin jazz....y mas.

RAZA launches their event at the - oh so - fabulous
Cielo as an afterwork "hangeo."

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
6 - 11pm
$5 before 7pm
$10 with flyer or RSVP to muzikbutrfly@earthlink.net
$15 at the door

Cielo
18 Little West 12th Street
Between Washington & 9th Avenue, NYC
A,C,E,1,2,3;L to 14th Street
www.cieloclub.com

Please visit: www.myspace.com/razanyc to join our network.

*Raza is a Spanish Language phrase which, while literally translated as 'race', is more often used as a synonym of "el pueblo" or "la gente", both of which mean "the people". It is used to denote the people of Latin America who share the cultural
and political legacies of Spanish colonialism. Often, the term "La Raza" also
encompasses a racial significance associated with "mestizaje" or race-mixing.

Beginning in about the 1960's, ethnically-based political movements for civil rights made use of the term "La Raza" to distinguish Spanish speakers and Latin Americans from Anglo and other White Americans and to break down the national and generational
barriers between the various segments of the Latino population.




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