Musical Muses
My thoughts
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The London Lucumi Choir were very honoured to feature on the stage with Britain’s finest Salsa Musicians. You may be asking what does an Afro-Cuban Spiritual Choir have to do with Salsa? Well, where should I start. There has been much written about the development of Salsa Music and so I will keep it brief.
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Over the past year, the London Lucumi Choir have been preparing their third album dedicated to the Orishas Oshun and Obatala. Recording is a learning experience and working with different engineers and in different locations and studios has also been very enlightening. One of the difficulties in recording has always been the fact that many
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How do members of the choir learn? Some of the harmonies can be quite complicated. Members sometimes feel daunted by the learning of harmony. But there really is no need. It is all about repetition and ear training. How we work is that I work out the harmonies in my head, and then I
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It is funny how things start simply with an idea that one would like to put into practise, and then somehow things develop organically. The Choir was quite simply my desire to sing for the Orisha on a regular basis with a multitude of people whilst using my skills and joy in vocal arranging.
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I have decided to write about the rhythmic challenges of teaching the Lucumi Choir since this is always a hurdle and a challenge. What makes this choir so different to any other British Based Choir is the fact that we sing with percussion and the rhythm is as important as the melody and harmonic
Everyday thoughts of a Lucumi Choir Director 