Press release

new album

pafata

public release on February 3rd

Navigating between Cuban popular music and 70's influences, ¿Who's The Cuban? cross the Caribbean arc floating their pop, rock and psychedelic flag.

The brass attack is full-frontal, the cowbell resonates under the chopsticks and the female/male vocal duo provides refinement and subtlety over the guitar melodies. The roads taken are sometimes different and can lead towards poetry or force you to dance.

Yet the flame that gave them birth always comes from the same place: Cuba.

Connected to the port of Havana as if by a rhythmic storm, ¿Who's The Cuban? allow themselves explorations and adventures. The band launches at full speed into a percussive and brassy rush that propels them right off the radar and is sometimes immersed in a psychedelic trip illuminated by futuristic keyboards but never loses musical contact with the island. No matter how far they travel or how high they climb, Cuba is always visible, even when conventional structures are challenged by more electric Yoruba trances.

The 9 tracks take us on a trip of thousands of kilometres and with 'Pafata' ¿Who's The Cuban? take their music from the Caribbean to Africa and from Africa to Europe. The band crosses roads, overlaps them and, like the music that inspired it, mixes styles to create its own.

album selected by radio france international talents and the parisian festival au fil des voix

release party on February 9 at 360 Paris music factory

the band

¿Who's The Cuban? is a Latin Rock Fusion music band formed in 2017 between Nancy and Paris. The musicians share the irresistible desire to mix the essence of Cuban music with hints of rock, pop and psychedelia.

Latin syncopation and melodies are mixed with a distorted guitar, a powerful bass and gliding synths with all this put to the rhythm of frenzied percussions and unbridled drums.

This original fusion produces a tropicalized, electric and above all danceable mix plus live shows that are brimming with energy.

After the release of the first album "Circo Circo" in 2019, the band has now welcomed a new duo on vocals - the Colombian singer Pao Barreto (The Bongo Hop, Cumbia Ya) and the Cuban trumpeter Dayron Ramirez Hernandez (Yuri Buenaventura).

With this new team, the septet has been performing in France at the Cabaret Vert, Au Fil des Voix, Convivencia and Tempo Latino festivals and also abroad. The group has also toured in Canada (Festival d'Été de Québec, Kultrùn Festival) and Cuba (Havana, Pinar Del Rio, Matanzas, Varadero).

These records paved the way for the release of "Pafata" on February 3, 2023, the 2nd album of this group selected by RFI Talents and the Au Fil Des Voix festival.

The 9 tracks take us on a trip of thousands of kilometres - from the Caribbean to Africa and then from Africa to Europe. The group crosses roads, overlaps them and, like the music that inspired it, combines styles to create its very own.