Por fin! The new album from Alaín Daniel

Egrem have announced that Alaín Daniel's new album, called Vestigios, has finally been released. This is the album he was recording when I was in Havana last year. (If you go back to read that report, note that the song Un amigo en Madrid is not a cha-cha-cha - he was working on two that day and I got confused...)
I don't know what "released" means exactly in Egrem-speak, as it wasn't listed on yesterday's Descarga mailout and it doesn't seem to be at Prodland either. I guess it means: be on the lookout - it will probably turn up somewhere, sooner rather than later.

This is the tracklisting:

1. Esto si sabe a Cuba
2. Un amigo en Madrid
3. La Miki
4. Marginal
5. Qué le pasa a esa mujer
6. Se pegan
7. Un loco enamora'o
8. Solo dime
9. Bendita locura
10. Le encanta la calle
12. Aparentemente ideal

All of the songs were written by Alaín, except for Qué le pasa a esa mujer, which was written by Juan Almeida. A couple of the songs - Se pegan and Le encanta la calle - have been around as demos for sometime now and have become dance-floor favourites here in Sydney. The Egrem blurb says Bendita locura, which he originally recorded on a four-track EP, has been re-recorded as a duet with Vania.
That EP only just turned up at Descarga recently, despite being released in 2007. Hope it doesn't take them as long to get their hands on this.
With the recent albums by Azucar Negra and Van Van; imminent, smoking hot releases by Bakuleye and Havana d'Primera and now this, it's looking like a good, if financially challenging, time to be a timba geek.