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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re still listening to music featured in No Time To Die!
The Cuban band ‘Septeto Soprano’ was formed in 1924 and changed its name to ‘La Sonora Matancera’ in 1932. La Sonora Matancera’s sound can be distinguished by its use of two trumpets. Also, instruments such as bongos, the cencerro (cowbell), contrabass, piano, timbalitos, and tumbadora are significantly included in their music. The band is also known for its backup singers singing with a high-pitched falsetto delivery.
The group has experienced many different lineups of musicians while performing around the world over the past century. In fact, the Guinness Book of World Records named La Sonora Matancera “The group with the longest duration.” Some individual band members were active with the band for more than six decades
La Sonora Matancera makes our list with this 1965 album, ‘Presentando El Nuevo Sonido Fabuloso (Presenting The Fabulous New Sound).’ My copy is from Venezuela, but it was also released in Peru and the U.S. The song ‘Cumbia de Buenaventura’, which leads off Side B, can be heard at 44:49 into No Time To Die, just after Bond is handed his passport after arriving in Cuba and spots his competition by the docks. The music starts with Bond on the dock and continues as he walks down the street towards Bar El Nido. We only hear around five clear seconds of the song before more music starts, and street sounds also help drown it out. Five seconds later, new music is playing when we are introduced to Paloma.
Here’s the scene, the featured music plays at 28 seconds:
This track was more than 50 years old by the time it was included as incidental music in NTTD, it’s a great fit for Cuba.
155. La Sonora Matancera – Presentando El Nuevo Sonido Fabuloso (Presenting The Fabulous New Sound)
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