CANYON CODY

Classic Fania is Reborn With Release of ‘Calentura’

The new album Calentura:Global Bassment marks a turning point for the storied salsa label and its enduring catalogue of vintage urban Latino hits.

Billboard
March 11, 2016 
By Judy Cantor-Navas 

Canyon Cody, the Los Angeles-based DJ and music scholar who is Fania’s recently appointed Vice President of A&R, is both a purist and an innovator. Cody executive produced Calentura: Global Bassment, a new album that marks a turning point for the storied salsa label and its enduring catalogue of vintage urban Latino hits.

The new album Calentura:Global Bassment marks a turning point for the storied salsa label and its enduring catalogue of vintage urban Latino hits.

“I had in my head what this album would sound like for a really long time,” says Cody, whose mother is Cuban (he is also a direct descendent of Buffalo Bill Cody). Creating something new with some of the best known and most sampled dance songs of all time is, as has often been witnessed, risky. How do you make a new version that doesn’t make listeners either run for the original song, or totally ignore that the original ever existed?

Cody’s respect for a legacy he knows intimately is matched by his fervor for a current dance music scene he has been part of developing. Calentura is the name of a regular Fania-promoted dance party in Los Angeles. With the Calentura, album, Cody has given the Fania gold new luster, moving the sound forward in a way that comes off as natural as the creation of the music that first sweated out of New York’s Latino community in the 1970s.

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