"PRE-DELIVERY UNIT GYNECOLOGIST ON DUTY" "Mónica, tell dad to call me on my cell." "Urgent." "His cell phone is off." "How long does the delivery take?" "Follow me, I'll show you where to change your clothes." "9/14/06 MATIAS AGUSTIN SILVA IS BORN" "One more family member." "He's got a flat nose and a big mouth." "Did you check the fingernails?" "What is this part called?" "The cuticle?" " If it's dark." " If it's dark it means..." "There's more niggers coming." "That's what old guys looked at in the past." "They'd look and say, yes, this one's mine..." "He's vey dark." "The important thing is he's fine." "The rest is all baloney." "CUAREIM 1080, FORMER MEDIO MUNDO TENEMENT HOUSE" "It was in this patio where I learned to walk." "Walking was difficult for me." "I had measles, chickenpox, you name it." "I was 1 and did not walk yet." "I was very thin due to all those problems." "So they brought me here and gradually made me walk." "My walking was clumsy, so they'd call me Cachila, old banger." "In my family, we all lived together." "Chino, Gitano, Pata." "My mother..." "her sister, aunt Gladys." "My grandparents..." "A bunch of people, really." "A family lived in each room." "One room per family." "I knew them all as I grew." "Each room had its issues." "In one room they had no money, others celebrated birthdays, others worked at night and rested in the morning..." "It was..." "It was a different life." "Inside here it was different from the outside world." "I lived great things in the tenement house, saw many things." "I became in part what my father wanted me to be." "Back then I performed with La Manga." "We'd go from here to the port where the nightclubs were." "We'd play the drums and people threw us coins from the balconies." "One-dollar bills..." "On Christmas' Eve we had dance parties in the tenement house." "We'd go room by room greeting people..." "At the end you'd be half-drunk." "In each room they made you come in and have a drink." "And there were 55 rooms!" "We'd go with the drums to Ansina." "Only once we had a problem." "The bathrooms were here." "There was a guy who played broom-man." "His name was Butianga." "He'd steal the brooms from my grandma." "She was the forewoman and cleaned the bathrooms." "We had shared bathrooms." "One bathroom downstairs one upstairs." "Each time my granny left, he'd take a broom." "He'd do his broom antics." "My granny swept the bathrooms with those brooms." "But Butianga wasn't a real broom-man, when he had to... throw the broom up in the air and then catch it... he would lust cover his head." "So we crossed paths with the Ansina drum band." "We were going in opposite directions." "Back then Suarez, Mecho, etc." "played with them." "When we crossed them in the street," "Butianga threw the broom up in the air." "And it fell on their side." "Oh boy..." "The broom was dirty, you know..." "There was a fight, they wanted to hit our broom man, we defended him." "I remember my father telling me, stay here and watch the drums." "There were people fighting all around me, while me and my brothers watched over 15 drums." "Nice cutting!" "Get me more lamb!" " ... and this plug it in..." " In that output." "Chiefs first." "My mother gave her life for the drum band." "When it happened to her, we were at the theater." "I was young, I didn't understand what happened, I was right next." "Now I understand, my mother gave her life for the drum band." "We're tough." "I'm not going to tell him, "Wellington I love you."" "And he won't tell me, "Matías, I love you."" "...you support him, you're his older brother." " What are you doing here?" " Nothing." " Go to bed." " I'm going." "Stop acting, people will talk." "I'm big, I know what to do." "You taught me." "Now go get in bed." "You'll be good tomorrow." "Don't go acting, they'll wonder what's wrong with you." "They have to worry about us, not us about them." "And there were the laundry basins." "The basins where here." "The well and the basins." "My dad played drums with Añoranzas Negras and many other bands." "He formed a drum band." "Their carnival name was Morenada." "Their parade name was Lonjas de Cuareim." "We've always been around the drums." "With my siblings Raúl, Juan, Juana... and my mother." "She was the second Juan Angel." "She was in charge of many things." "Everybody in the band knew her as well as they knew my dad." "My house... was a drum band, in a room called Yacumenza." "Room 55." "I kept the drums there." "And the people without home also lived there." "Then they decided... to demolish the tenement house, during the dictatorship." "The thing is-- the dictatorship wanted the tenement house gone." "In 1976 they evicted most people." "Then they torn it down." "Those who could, rented houses in the neighborhood." "Others were taken to different neighborhoods." "A very sad moment." "People didn't want to leave." "Then I started working with dad on different terms." "He started to delegate things on me." "That was around 1978-1980, when the tenement house disappeared." "So I noticed... that my father  I don't mean to challenge his authority." "Nobody could." "It was his way or the highway." "You had to do what he said." "I asked for his permission to put together my own drum band." "He said, wait, let's see what your brothers do." "My brothers had gotten together to help my dad." "I didn't want to leave my dad alone either." "So I waited some time as he said, and a month later he told me," "Wait, I still don't know what's up." "There was no grey areas with him, things had to be straight." "One day he told me: do your band, your brothers will do Morenada." "That's how we started." "I also wanted to bring joy to my children's mother." "She liked drum bands a lot." "She's started out as a dancer..." "She and I did everything in the band." "That's how C1080 came about." "And here we are." "DRUM BANDS PARADE DAY CARNIVAL 2007" "DRUM BANDS PARADE DAY CARNIVAL 2007" "...in the middle, the front or over here." "There will be a juror." "What does that mean?" "You do one break here, another one when you get here." " There?" " No, here." " Four rows, it won't fit." " It will, Matías." " They'll put chairs there." " The chairs go on the sidewalk." "There are 6 steps from the signs until here." "There will be signs on this side too." "We'll fill the block with drums." " We can screw up." " How so?" "If a drummer screws up you can't stop the parade." "It's best to be tight." "If a guy plays off-beat he'll confuse everyone." "No arguments, do as I say." "If the drums get off-beat over here, we're fucked." "He said, no, I couldn't make it." "Call the broom-men." "Start to get dressed now." "C'mon, hats, hats here." "Why give them out now?" "Get that." "Put them in there, Wellington." "They'll get inside, and it's a bunch of people." "OK, but we have to give them the things." " You want them inside?" " Tell them to come now." "This is ours, it's good for us to defend it." "We play here everyday." "This street is ours." "If we finish first or fifth," "I don't care." "But we have to be happy we kicked ass." "Let's try to do things right and kick eveybody's ass." "1, 2, 3... go!" "Go!" "Move on." "Greet, but don't stop." "Walk, dance, that gets you points." "C'mon, c'mon!" "Let's go, Cachila." "Honk, honk!" "Don't worry, we've ended up last." "In 7 years, we ended up last 3 times." "In 2004 we played great, we were hopeful, when we learned the jury decision, we were last." "With the drums still playing, different neighborhoods await... with expectation... the jury decision tonight." "THE C1080 DRUM BAND WON THE FIRST PRIZE IN THE PARADE" "This is where we'd go up our room." "There was another..." "Matías..." "Guillermo and I try to learn things... that we can stand for tomorrow." "How to treat people, how to get things..." "How to advance a culture my dad and granddad defended." "I think uncle Cachila is giving us guidelines so that we... can run the drum band properly." "I want to take it to another level." "I think there is... enough talent to bring candombe to a new level." "Not just a short term thing." "...with an old look, not wood on the fabric, The Divine Drum Band." "And with an uneven light you're showing what it is about." "There's a risk, we'll fiddle with the theme." "There'll be a whole staging, that's innovation." "I don't know if we'll earn or lose points with it." "To build the carousel, will you need something, or you'll do it yourself?" " We'll work it out." " And the middle shaft?" "The shaft... but this is all just fabric and wood." "Fabric?" "It's made like that." "I need to leave a segment for the shaft." "Space for the choir..." " and musicians?" " Yes." "Card bothered them, eventually they took it off." "You glue it." " To the eye?" " On the eyelid." "Can they open their eyes then?" " You glue card" " It's fucking crazy." "If it's too heavy..." "A flying carousel, you can't move your eyelids..." "Let me try..." "Bye, see you." "They gave you the lyrics, you got it." "2 minutes, then 1, then 5." "It's 8 minutes." "It's a way of using that part of the song to go places, as if running." "If you add another song it's 10 minutes on stage." "We get in, then another song..." "What are you waiting for?" " You owe me the Jaca lyrics." " It's the illusion of hell." "There's gotta be something to work on with him." "Now." "Hell!" "Hell!" "Ancestral abyss!" "Mortal relief!" "Open your door!" "Hit, hit, hit!" "Relief!" "Hit!" "How do we do this part?" " Down a stairway and open ?" " Yes." "...to knock down your door." "Let's do that part at the end." "My kid..." "He'll go get some things." "Give them to him." "Sure." "9, 8, 9, 2, 4." "Yosemar plays weed-man?" "Yosemar is weed-man, Matías plays broom-man." " Got the receipts there?" " Yes, one second." "I'll ask dad." "Do as you please, then call me and we'll arrange it." "I forgot, man." "How many days?" "Canario just asked me for money." "Most times dad does the contact." "We then arrange things, you know, wardrobe, drums..." "When we finish, either dad, Wellington or me get the money." "Having a child makes you value things." "You need to buy diapers..." "all his needs." "I'm trying to make ends meet." "I had a job, and..." "I was working 12 hours a day." "At a certain point I had to decide." "If I went on working," "I couldn't help dad and my siblings with the drum band." "Did you bring a hat?" "Where is it?" "I have to play at 4." "I need to be fast and be there at 4." "I started brushing down ships, with a fortnightly pay of $500." "I did that for 13 years." "Then I worked for the Navy between 1979 and 1990." "In 1993 I joined ALADI, I've worked there for 15 years." "I work as a printer." "With these new machines you press 2 buttons and it's done." "I do so many things." "I go to bed at midnight eveyday." "We have technical meetings with the choreographers, lyrics writers and wardrobe artists." "I'm on top of everything until "theater day."" "I can't... leave it all in my kids' hands." "They're starting to learn how to run a drum band." "I establish the basis of candombe, just like my dad used to do." "The next day I'm at work again in the office." "Drum band soul burning passion" "Water and sun of my race" "In your mystical sound" "Black feeling" "Tall hat, cane" "Waking up the dreams of the old balcony" "Milongón, if one day" "It's your time to die" "There will always be a black angel to bring you back to life" "And if destiny silences this voice" "A choir of crickets shall sing your song" "Legendary milongón" "Milongón of our grandparents" "Why are you in purgatory?" "You deserve to be in heaven" "Heaven..." "Go easy on the drums." "Too much paila." "Go easy on the pallas." "C'mon, hurry!" "Very good..." "Ladies and gentlemen," "This is a dance created by 1080." "It's called the dance of the screw." "It goes like this." "Raise your hand, raise your hand!" "Raise your hand, raise your hand!" "Raise it up!" "Raise it up!" "Raise your hand!" "Raise it up!" " How much?" " $6o." "Saint Pancras," "Keep them free of illnesses..." "We're all going to sing together," "Saint Pancras, with your virtue" "I ask for sustenance and health" "For my body, for my soul... for the whole world." "You were born a pagan and became a Christian" "I was born in Christian faith" "I've wasted my legacy" "Let's buy something to eat." "I have to pay everyone." "What's this?" "I took money for the taxi." " What's that?" " To get food." " Give me that." " C'mon." "I'll pay at rehearsal time, not now." "Two, three...go!" "Four, five, six, seven, back, turn." "One, two, three to cover the white part." "Got a hammer there?" "Nails?" "...stop breaking my balls." "...you can tell he's hot." "You're hot, man." " What?" " 3 minus $50." " Three what?" " Stages." "OK, wait a bit then." "Did you come yesterday?" "One, two, three, bang, bang!" "We start with candombe and you play plena." "Bell!" "Curtain up!" "1, 2, 3..." "The divine drum band" "The divine drum band" "The divine drum band" "OFFICIAL CONTEST FIRST ROUND" "OFFICIAL CONTEST FIRST ROUND" "Did you put my pants there?" "Yes." " What?" " Yes." "Does this one go?" "Does this one go, Mónica?" "Tell me, I can't guess." "Which ones do go?" "He doesn't know." "I'm having a coffee." "Well, have it later then." "C'mon." "An oflicial theater day is a special day." "The first thing I hear is, Wellington!" "It's my father, stressed out like crazy." "Then check all the worksheets for wardrobe, lyrics, calls..." "Where everyone is..." "Someone's missing a shoe, someone misses something else..." "We help each other when we forget something." "I keep my eyes open to help my brother or my dad." "My mom died on a March 1st." "We were performing at the official theater that day." "After she died, my dad took responsibility for everything." "I was 13, not a child, but not quite a teenager yet." "My brother wasn't a man yet either." "Mom's death had an emect on us as individuals, we were changing." "She was the one raising us..." "Dad works hard, he leaves for work early and comes back late always trying to advance." "After the operation we realized the weight he was carrying." " Where are you going?" " Mónica told me to put it here." "Put it on top of that." " Are you going there?" " Yes, why?" "What a dirty mouth." "There you go, easy does it." "Don't break it." "Can't you see?" "How will you get in now?" "Hello." "Yes, what's up?" "No, I'll talk to him." "Good." "They just give me a quick paint." "You'll look great, Cachila." " Don't use purpurine." " Why?" "Because I'll leave marks when I kiss." "I knew you'd say that." "They're crazy for me." " Shut up, Cachila." " Wanna see?" "It's not all for free here." "Abrojo Cabrera." "He killed Seba's dog." " What time do we leave?" " I don't know." "Last night we had to finish up, but you didn't show." "It's OK if you can't sing, but you have to come." "So you know my cues." "Tonight if you don't get my cues I'll throw you off the stage." "I have to pass the theater." "There's a lot at stake." "Let's go." "Pereira, Miguel, c'mon." "Doesn't that bus telephone work?" "C'mon Coco, get on." "Theater day to me is tough..." "It's seeing that movie all over again." "My mom was the one in charge of everything." "On theater days she was extremely busy." "We greeted her as we went onstage." "When we got off-stage she was gone." "That was the last time we saw her." "When I get the blues I try not to show it to them." "I always tell them," "Think of someone you're dedicating your performance to." "That's what I always do." "First things first." "Get your dresses everyone." "Leave your girlfriend for some other day." "Go on ahead, go." "Wait Wellington." "Listen to me, stop." "It's off here." "Listen to me." "Stay out of this." "Keep the distance from the mike." "If you're too far, they hear nothing out there." "They come... from the South Quarter" "Society of Blacks and Lubolos" "Title..." "C108O" "The divine drum band" "The divine drum band" "The divine drum band" "The divine drum band" "Dark skin, clear culture" "Growing and offering" "Classic literature Modern times" "In dance turns" "With art, its offer comes on stage" "The purgatory is the jury" "In the admission performance" "Paradise is hell" "If they bring the curtain down on us" "The divine drum band" "The divine drum band" "Life conceived without sin" "Childhood with a fragrance of toys" "The world of weapons forgets" "The suffering of poor children" "It'd be much better to try" "To embrace their naïveté" "Stop the time for them" "Eternal in that age" "Eternal in that age" "If they've been blessed by the saints" "Why the punishment of insane disdain?" "The purgatory frees them" "Why doesn't the human being protect them?" "Everyone from Bethlehem" "Love everyone." "One, two, three..." "Here's your uncle." "Here's like five generations!" "The whole band." "I did the drum arrangement but they didn't include it." "Nothing as black as snow" "Nothing as white as coal" "Paradise Center" "Buy yourself an illusion" "Ilt should explode there." "I'm listening to the lower one." "They're going fast." "Cuareim's drums are something diflerent, you dumb ass." "You have to show that difference." "Listen to those drums Matías." "The ovation." "The whole theater went crazy." "Let's review Cuareim 1080 now." "I think the lyrics sometimes are difficult to understand." "I'd like to read their script, may be that's what I don't understand." "They don't get it." "I think what the drum section does is a display of percussion, all the different beats, trying to make an impression, playing with two sticks, one in the mouth..." "Listen to these morons." "...for all tastes." "I liked certain things they did and disliked others." "That was the review for C1080 then..." "Let's now listen to a passage from their performance." "...he'll light it." " Where will he put it?" " In the beams." "Can you go behind the choir?" "Not on this side?" "You have one exit here and another here." " I mean the front." " Next to the choir." "The drums need to get out, even if we cut the divine part..." "It's too stiff." "The ones in the outer circles move towards the front." "They're way behind, are they scared?" "That bothers the group, because they see all that's going on..." "They asked who made a mistake, what do they care?" "Something happened?" "OK, let's move forward." "They had their minds somewhere else..." "The last one is candombe." "Let's try it." "You have to form the circles the way we said we would." "We'll do it now." "Let's go from the top." "I've known how this works since my father's times." "Winning is a great satisfaction." "The whole quarter gathers, you're happy for some time." "They can pick the winner they want." "If it's not your year to win they do it little by little to break your heart in a thousand pieces." "In Morenada I saw old guys crying." "They were carnival celebrities and cried over the prize." "I told my mom once," "If dad stopped with Morenada I'd no longer have drum bands." "CARNIVAL OFFICIAL CONTEST LAST ROUND" "Gentlemen," "I'm glad we've gathered." "From now on our minds are in there." "No room for families, boyfriends, girlfriends now." "From now on our minds are set in there." "Everybody has their wardrobe, make-up, everything." "Our goal is there." "That's the stage we have to win." "I think we can do it." "Good luck, go for it." "We are..." "We are..." "We are..." "We are..." "We are the race." "Candombe blood." "We're the South Quarter." "We're 1080." "We're the drum band." "The most candombe band" "Lubolo lineage 1080 screams!" "It's the feeling" "Starting to grow" "1080 screams" "We will come back" "It's the feeling" "Starting to grow" "1080 screams" "We're from Cuareim!" "1080 from Cuareim!" "1080 from Cuareim!" "Take it, c'mon!" "Go slow, go." "You're going down Ejido?" "Oh boy..." " Which way then?" " Minas St." "It's jammed." " When's the announcement?" " Tomorrow night." "Holy shit." "I have a gig in Punta del Este tomorrow." "In that building with the spinning restaurant at the top." " The kids?" " Anxious." "They keep asking me how's it looking, but I don't know." "Last year was a tough blow for them." "After ending up first 3 years in a row second place is like the end of the world for them." "...we'll see the bands that have a chance this carnival of winning the first prize." "Let's go to the official theater and see what's happening there." "WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT DAY" "Now the results for the categoy" "Societies of Blacks and Lubolos" "What did you touch?" "For C1080..." "Voices, 12 times 5 = 6O" "Choir arrangements, 12 times 5 = 60." "Musicality, 11 times 10 = 110." "Global appearance 12 times 2 = 24 Total: 254." "Fundamentals, 10 times 10 = 100." "Global appearance, 11 times 2 = 22." "Choir arrangements, 12 times 5 = 60." "Musicality, 11 times 10 = 110." "200!" "The final score for C1080 is... 3390 points." "First place is for Yambo Kenia, second place for Sarabanda, and third place for C1080." "C'mon, lighten up now!" "It's not like we lost the war." "We have to learn how to be in first, second or third place." "Man, don't get so mad about it." "Let's get drunk and beat each other up in the bus." "Forget about it." "C'mon, lighten up." "Cachila's got whiskey!" "It's past 11 PM now..." "Had we won we would be celebrating until morning." "Until 9 in the morning." "Have a drink and forget it." "Getting mad won't change anything." "It's of no use." "Tomorrow at 6 PM, right?" "You?" "You may start talking to some other band." "Listen, the choir needs to start tonight." "The dancers want to play drums, but women were made for dancing, right?" "They can't play." "Votes in favor?" "He can play." "My father said the band has to be an honest thing." "I try to keep that example so they follow it." "Our culture won't disappear overnight." "It will exist forever; when they review a country's history, they review their culture, what it was." "So it'll exist forever." "I believe they can do it, no doubt." "If I could I'd tell them right now," "Now it's your turn to keep doing it." "That's how it's passed on." "Their houses are going to be drum bands too, just like mine." "So..." "That room was Yacumenza's, Pantalicio's was there." "Noelia's mom there.." " Chilogo lived here?" " Yes." ""Crazy" Larramendi lived up here."