Orquesta Failde. Foto: Prensa Latina.

Havana, March 23 (RHC)-- Cuba’s Failde Orchestra is these days recording a new album entitled ‘Joyas Inéditas’, dedicated to Matanzas musician Miguel Failde, creator of Cuban danzon.

In statements to Cuban press, the band leader, flutist and arranger Ethiel Failde, said the album will compile Little-known, previously unpublished danzon and danzonete tunes by Miguel Failde and Aniceto Díaz.

Miguel Failde is the author of some 140 songs. However, only one of them was properly recorded and registered “Las Alturas de Simpson”, considered the first Cuban danzon tune.

The new album ‘Joyas Inéditas’ is being recorded in studios that belong to Cuba’s record and musical editions Company EGREM.

Ethiel Failde, who is the great-great-grandson of Miguel Failde, said that once the new album is complete, by mid-May, students and professors at music schools and Cuban music lovers around the world will gain access to the vast work of his great-great-grandfather. He pointed to titles like «Cuba libre», «El naranjero», «A La Habana me voy», among others written by Miguel Failde nearly a century ago.