spam allstars: ¡fuacata! live
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This full-length CD of live digital recordings from the notorious weekly at Hoy Como Ayer
in Little Havana, Miami ('iFuacata!' translates loosely as Pow! or Wham!) documents the
Spam Allstars' modern, Pan-American dance music.

Seemlessly fusing funk, Miami bass, hip hop, dub, free jazz, descarga, guaguanco, and Afro-beat,
" . . . an original concept in nightlife, a new Miami sound that has been described as
a 'de-emphasis of the obvious', a 'controlled dissonance' and even
a 'deconstructed rumba' . . ." (New York Times).

DJ Le Spam on samplers, turntables, and fx;
Tomas Diaz on percussion and vocals;
AJ Hill on alto sax;
John Speck on trombone;
Adam Zimmon on guitar;
and Brendan Buckley on looped drums.

Original eight-panel artwork by Lebo.

¡Fuacata!, every Thursday night
at Club Hoy Como Ayer,
SW 8 Street and 22 Avenue, Miami.

Click on the Track List below for MP3 audio samples:
1. Some Useful Phrases
2. Descarga Gusano
3. Fiesta De Los Feos
4. Una Buena Limpieza
5. Common Birds
6. Comemierda
7. Fijate
8. La Sowesera
9. Leo
10. Mucha Nota
11. Paz 9.13

Click on the logos below
for the Spam Allstars website,
http://www.spamallstars.com
updated often with news, mp3 recordings of live
performances, photo galleries, squirrels, and more,
and to Lebo's website
http://leboland.com
with an animated sketchbook and more.




Review by Fernando Gonzalez from Downbeat Magazine, October, 2002:
'Caribbean swing, with a twist, is what you get at the weekly, Thursday night Fuacata! sessions at the small Hoy Como Ayer club in Little Havana, Miami. (¡Fuacata! is an expression that translates roughly as Wham!). The affair, headlined by DJ Le Spam (aka Andrew Yeomanson) and his Spam Allstars, quickly grew from a great night out to a cultural phenomenon, a place where local b-boys and girls, YUCAS (Cuban American yuppies), Latinos of many different communities and yes, even Anglos rubbed elbows. 'Fuacata! Live' couldn't possibly capture the feel of the evening, but gives a very good sense of what it sounds like. Le Spam lays the grooves and sets up the live playing ... then nudges the musicians with samples, rhythm breaks and snippets of spoken-word recordings of anything from English courses and Fidel Castro impersonators to an astrology session. The music has humor, muscle and killer grooves (check 'Descarga Gusano', Comemierda' or 'La Sowesera').'

Read about Latin piano legend Larry Harlow's night with the Spam Allstars at ¡Fuacata!