Cuba – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017

More inanity from the Hackney organity.

Gaudí Sands, a retro slave colony?

Gaudí’s work was financed from the fortune built upon Joan Güell’s Cuban slave empire, so if Eurovegas is going to come to the marshes of the Llobregat, what more appropriate way to staff it than by shackling and transporting some of the tens of thousands of locally unemployed Africans?

Lithos by Xavier Cugat at Brok

See him marry Rita Montaner! empathise with his doggies! buy me a print!

Rita Montaner marrying Xavier Cugat, by Xavier Cugat, @<a href='http://brok.es'>Brok</a>.

Constantí Ribalaigua, the Catalan who DIDN’T invent the daiquiri, for Pete’s sake

Of Tate Cabré, ethnicity, creativity, and talking dogs that shit up walls.

Carlos Borbolla (1902 – 1990), Cuban dance organ impresario and piano composer

I just found a piece by Miriam Ruiz Pérez in the Cuban national socialist regime’s magazine, La Jiribilla. Apparently Borbolla was born in Manzanillo of a merchant family which made money from the hire, construction and repair of dance organs. As he moved into the business following musical studies in France, he began to replace…