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Gilles Peterson discusses a new book he helped co-edit about Cuban record sleeve design, which traces a musical form in constant revolution.--Miss Rosen Huck

"Gilles Peterson discusses a new book he helped co-edit about Cuban record sleeve design, which traces a musical form in constant revolution.--Miss Rosen ""Huck"""

...the island's diverse music landscape and dozens of LP covers, whose features--bold slabs of color, collagist experiments, and offbeat typography--deftly distill Cuba's unique cultural melange.--Samuel Medina Metropolis Magazine

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Gilles Peterson is a BBC radio and worldwide club DJ and record collector supreme. He is the founder of the record label Brownswood Recordings, as well as Talking Loud and Acid Jazz, and founder of the radio station Worldwide FM. As a club DJ he first fell in love with latin music. In 2009, and for much of the following decade, Gilles Peterson was flying in and out of Cuba, recording and releasing new Cuban music under the Havana Cultura banner. Stuart Baker is the founder of the record label Soul Jazz Records and the publishing house Soul Jazz Books. Soul Jazz Records has released hundreds and hundreds of critically acclaimed albums in a multitude of genres. As a publisher Soul Jazz Books has released deluxe art books on Dancehall, Voguing, Punk, Disco and a number of Record Cover art books including Freedom, Rhythm and Sound, Bossa Nova and Disco. Stuart Baker has been collecting Cuban music for over 25 years. He first travelled to Cuba in 1994 to produce a series of albums for Soul Jazz Records and continues to trawl the streets of Havana for original Cuban vinyl whenever he is there.

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