Although you may not have been made aware, Dot Time Records has released the brand new album Falcón in Blue, from Havana-based composer, and arranger Alejandro Falcón.

As part of Cuban Notes, the ongoing artistic and cultural project produced by Johanan Bickhardt, founder of the label, and guitarist Roni Ben-Hur, this first album of the series revisits foundational Cuban genres—among them danzón, son, rumba, cha-cha-chá, and bolero—from the perspective of the present.

Rather than treating these forms as heritage pieces or nostalgic artifacts, Falcón approaches them as living languages, shaped by memory, experience, and artistic exchange across borders. The album reflects a broader commitment to collaboration between Cuban and international musicians.

Throughout the project, Cuban music is understood not as something fixed or folkloric, but as an evolving practice sustained through dialogue, listening, and continuity. Falcón in Blue follows a period in which Falcón explored more experimental territory, including symphonic composition and music for television.

Here, he returns consciously to the heart of Cuban musical language, not to repeat familiar ideas, but to rethink them. He has described the album as a kind of rebirth: one that recalls the spirit of his 2010 debut, Claroscuro, while expanding it through new compositions, highly inventive arrangements and carefully chosen guest artists.

1. El Rey David
2. Una Tarde En Puerto Padre
3. Tambores en Colores
4. Falcon’s Blues
5. Bolero Para Brenda
6. Ted In Havana
7. Olinda
8. Yuca Con Mojo
9. Un Son Para La Quena

With the new album reflecting a compositional vision grounded in intuition, discipline, and emotional clarity, Alejandro opens his new recording on the fervently charged El Rey David, an infectious hipsway within Una Tarde En Puerto Padre and the impassioned Tambores en Colores and then we get the free flowing magical musical melodies within Falcon’s Blues, the more seductively cultured notes od Bolero Para Brenda, before we are gifted the emotively channeled Ted In Havana, the beautifully grooved Olinda, the set rounding out on the forthright Yuca Con Mojo, closing on the rhythmically melodious Un Son Para La Quena.

Musicians:
Alejandro Falcón piano; Arnulfo Guerras Bass; Ruy López Nussa Drums; José Julián Morejón Bongoes, Percusión

With Special Guests:
Orlando Valle Maraca, flute; Ted Nash Tenor Sax; Rachel Terrien, trumpet; Roni Ben-Hur, guitar; Emir Santa Cruz, tenor sax; Mayquel González, trumpet; Janio Abreu, soprnto and tenor sax; Pedro Pablo Gutiérrez, acoustic bass

The new album, housed in an original jacket with a printed sleeve and pressed on 140g black vinyl.

Official Purchase Link

www.alejandrofalcon.net

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