Eavesdropping

Iliana Montauk ’06, who is also a Crimson Editor:

“Orishas’ A Lo Cubano. Partly because it’s not very well known and it’s excellent. I found out about it from a friend who got it from a friend who got it from a friend, and originally we just had burned copies. It’s a Cuban group that does hip-hop, but with a really Cuban feel to it...with drumming and stuff, kind of like afro-cuban roots. When I arrived here [from California] they had just put out a second album in Miami, so when I got here I asked everyone from Miami if they had heard of them, and no one had. Except this one girl from Cuba, who knew them because they had lived down the block from her in Cuba! It’s one of those CDs you can put in and listen to every song, and everyone who hears it always asks for a copy. Last year I was taking Chem 15, and one of the things the professor let us do was bring in CDs to play at the beginning of class. Once I brought in Orishas, and apparently later students came up to him and asked what the music was, so I got to pass this on to a student in a 500 person chemistry class!”