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  • Anonymous
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    October 11, 2006 at 11:15 am
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    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.”

    http://www.myspace.com/razanyc

    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

    http://www.cieloclub.com

    *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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