Debut Single: Las Fenestras - Cuban Son

Artiest/Band: Las Fenestras Single:  Cuban Son Release: 27 Januray 2025 Label: AUDIO 54  LAS FENESTRAS ANNOUNCE DEBUT SINGLE ‘CUBAN SON’ ON 27 Jan 2025 LAS FENESTRAS is a brand new roots rock project featuring vocalist, songwriter, World Music master percussionist, drummer and session musician Simon Webster,  Simon Webster, lyricist and award winning broadcaster Pete Feenstra and multi instrumentalist and innovative indie producer and recording artist Craig Marshall aka AUDIO 54......

LAS FENESTRAS ANNOUNCE DEBUT SINGLE ‘CUBAN SON’ ON 27 Jan 2025

LAS FENESTRAS is a brand new roots rock project featuring vocalist, songwriter, World Music master percussionist, drummer and session musician Simon Webster,  Simon Webster, lyricist and award winning broadcaster Pete Feenstra and multi instrumentalist and innovative indie producer and recording artist Craig Marshall aka AUDIO 54

As Pete explains the song is very much the product of the Latin rhythms that underpin a humorous story line shaped by Craig’s digitised sonic landscape.

“Sometimes a song can come to you quite quickly in its entirety. In this case the building blocks were the words and the search for suitable rhythms to amplify the story.

I’d met Simon at a live show he played in Dordogne (SW France) and was very impressed with his skills and above all his feel.

I mentioned I had a few song ideas and he explored different percussion grooves including the Latino feel that we came to use.

He really locked into the song and came up with the chords and melody including the dynamic falsetto phrasing on the middle eight. 

Craig then built the track and added the wonderful sonic detail with samples and drop-ins such as the Cuban piano, Mariachi trumpets, a throbbing bass line and layered bv’s.”

The song takes a light hearted look at an unlikely piece of history set to a celebratory dance friendly track. 

As Pete summarises “We finished working on the song in November last year, which coincidentally was the 8^th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s passing. If nothing else, it serves to remind us of the joys of communal dancing, a theme nicely referenced in Dave Larder’s video.”

LAS FENESTRAS ‘Cuban Son’ is set for release on Audio 54 and all download and streaming platforms on 12/1/25

Website:

• Info: Pete Feenstra petefeenstrablues@gmail.com 
• Website: Audio 54:  https://www.audio54.net/
• Simon Webster:  https://www.simonwebster.org.uk/
• Pete Feenstra: https://www.petefeenstramusic.com     

Cuban Son Lyrics: 

Came in from the cane fields,

Upset the USA,

History will judge me,

Is what he used to say,

Spoke with an authority,

And a ready smile,

A hard earned diplomacy,

A swagger in his style,

In the shadow, of Fidel Castro,

And it feels like, history on the run,

As the sun sets, on Fidel Castro,

Say goodbye to that Cuban Son.

Said he lived on vitamins,

And chewed on his cigars,

Only smoked half of them,

And sealed the rest in the jars

No fancy suits from Rio,

He saw it as a trap,

Wore the people’s uniform,

With a military cap,

hook

In the shadow, of Fidel Castro,

And it feels like, history on the run,

As the sun sets, on Fidel Castro,

Say goodbye to that Cuban son.

Bridge

Forged a social vision, for a better life,

Talked a simple language, cross a big divide,

50 years of speeches, wasn’t gonna fall,

The only thing that beat him, the clock on the wall.

hook

In the shadow, of Fidel Castro,

And it feels like, history on the run,

As the sun sets, on Fidel Castro,

Say goodbye to, that Cuban Son.

Say goodbye to, that Cuban Son.

Say goodbye to, that Cuban Son.

Say Goodbye

(c) Feenstra/Marshall/Webster