Miguel ""Anga"" Diaz -- Anga Mania!: The Past, Present, and Future of Conga Playing

Great dvd! I owned it before and it was damaged, so ordered it again. Any serious conguero knows about Anga, and his twin daughters are carrying the legacy with their group Ibeyi.

DVD came new, fast...Everything works. Will shop again.PS: if you like Latin percussion this is a great DVD to buy.

Miguel Anga Diaz is the greatest

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This is a great dvd that showcases the talent of one of the best percussionist of our time. Miguel was not only a virtuoso but also a very creative musician.

For those not familiar with his work, Anga was (I feel sorry saying "was") a very adroit conga player who often performed with more than the traditional two drums, to give his grooves a more melodic aspect. He was also capable of playing very fast licks, sometimes using Changuito's "mano secreta" double stroke technique. If you have heard Giovanni Hidalgo, you have a general idea of the "school" of congueros that Anga came from.How you feel about this video will depend on your skill level and interest. A beginning conga player (or non-conga player) could watch this for pleasure, but might be a little overwhelmed. Anga plays his own five drum variations of the basic tumbao and guaguanco patterns, but he never explains the underlying strokes or patterns --that's not the video's intent.Intermediate and advanced players have a grab bag of licks to check out, some explained and some not, plus a couple new groove ideas -- the pilon and batumbata (sp?) conga rhythms played against other percussion and a hiphop drumset beat -- all played by Anga, overdubbing to become three players. There is also a thought-provoking duet with a dj in a drum&bass style, with some nice doubletime grooving by Anga.The one audience that may be a little frustrated are people who prefer the folkloric style of Cuban percussion, past & present, eg the Munequitos, Conjunto Folklorico, etc. Although Anga plays one well-known bata rhythm in passing, he does not really play rumba or other traditional Afro-cuban styles in their more sophisticated forms, preferring -- in this video, at least -- to take fairly simple rhythms like tumbao and the old-fashioned style of guaguanco, and elaborate on them with more notes and faster licks. This is not a criticism, just a matter of aesthetic choice.Speaking as a musician who does not play much conga anymore, I most enjoyed the conga-turntable duet -- a very interesting musical statement.If you are a conguero with some fluency on the instrument, you will probably find something here to provoke or challenge you, assuming you like the Hidalgo-Changuito style of playing.

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