TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: The Rough Guide To
The Music Of Cuba
LABEL: World Music Network
RIPPER: Team RNS

1hr 14min total - 101MB

RELEASE DATE: 01/04/2000
RIP DATE: 01/06/2000

- TRACK LISTING -

01  3:32   Orquesta Riverside - En Casa Del Trompo No Bailes

02  7:55   Irakere - Rucu Rucu A Santa Clara
03  3:33   Celina Gonzalez - Santa Barbara
04  3:11   Vieja Trova Santiaguera - Un Meneito Na' Mas
05  6:09   Nico Saquito - A Orillas Del Cauto
06  5:40   Ritmo Y Candela - Descarga En Faux
07  4:29   Los Van Van - Amiga Mia
08  5:14   Bellita Y Jasstumbata - Oyelo Sonar
09  2:56   Chico O'Farrill Y Allstars Cubano - Descarga No.

10  4:57   Mario Bauza - Mambo Rincon
11  5:10   Sierra Maestra - Dundunbanza
12  2:28   Lazaro Ros - Elegba
13  4:04   The Valera Miranda Family - El Vendedor De Agua
14  5:22   Conjunto Cespedes - Alafia
15  3:07   Estudiantina Invasora - Cabalo Viejo
16  6:17   Los Terry - Tinguiti 'Ta Durmiendo

- RELEASE NOTES -

This anthology nicely complements the Cuba chapter in The
Rough Guide to World Music and is probably as adequate an
introduction to the imponderably influential scope of
twentieth-century Cuban music as could be distilled down to
a single CD. Although tilted toward the jazz end of
spectrum, this diverse collection includes Lazaro Ros's
profound, drum-driven invocation of the Santeria deity
"Elegba," musica campesina star Celina Gonzalez's rough-hewn
"roots salsa," the nimble, acoustic guitars and voices of
old-school balladeers Vieja Trova Santiaguera, and Havana's
renowned Sierra Maestra, the supple son revivalists who
comprise the Buena Vista Social Club's musical backbone.
Maria Bauza's "Mamba Rincon" shows how the bandleader fused
Cuban and North American jazz in the 1940s, a hot hybrid
that perseveres in the music of such great Cuban dance bands
as Los Van Van and Orquesta Riverside, as well as in more
musically ambitious groups like Irakere and Ritmo y Candela
(all included here). Cuba's music remains remarkably dynamic
for a country seemingly preserved in political aspic

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