Single Review - Cuban Son - Las Fenestras

Single Review - Cuban Son - Las Fenestras

Told you he was a talented guy didn’t I, and here is again, - Pete Feenstra with some more collaborators – Simon Webster on drums and percussion, and renowned session musician, and Craig Marshall, a multi instrumentalist and indie producer. Together they have come together to produce Cuban Son as Las Fenestras.

Now I can usually detect some influence on people’s writing, but this one has got me. It is totally original, unless you want to count The Buena Vista Social Club, which I don’t think we do as they were old people playing traditional Cuban roots music.

It uses Cuban melodies and rhythms in the backing, but the story line in the song and the

vocal melody is totally unique and off the wall. It is about revolutionary Marxist dictator Fidel Castro, whose buddy was Che Guevara.It is a nod and a wink to how principled the guy was in his socialist beliefs and how he held them to the end when time took over and he died of old age. Cubans loved the guy even if he was labelled a dictator. I bumped into a couple of Cubans in Camden market one Sunday afternoon and they came back to my flat for tequila and other things and they waxed lyrical about Castro, saying most people felt the same way. I think the lyrics put this across really well.

There will only be one Fidel Castro and there is only one Pete Feenstra, a wordsmith of

mega talent. (Amongst other things} Check these two singles out, you will be pleasantly

surprised, unless you are a bat eating goth of course.