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September 1999 :: Music C-E :: Cuba Si! (Hal Horowitz)
Cuba Si! Pure Cuban Flavor Rhino With Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club the surprise world music hit of the year, Rhino loses no time in releasing this terrific 14 cut, 75 minute compilation of traditional Cuban jazz, most of it recorded in the past three years. Predominantly instrumental, what's ...
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July 1999 :: Music C :: ¡Cuba Si! (Sarah Ludwig)
¡Cuba Si! Pure Cuban Flavor Rhino They may be able to keep the sugar and the missiles out, but you can't stop the music. Fourteen glorious tropical concoctions that pack a solid punch behind the exotic flavor. There is a great amount of diversity in this collection of Cuban artists, from straightforward ...
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Various Artists (Putumayo). Review by Bill Campbell.
CONGO TO CUBA VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Putumayo's Odyssey series is an inspiring undertaking that explores the commonalities between the world's various musical forms. Sometimes, it's intriguing -- as in the blues-saturated Memphis to Mali -- and sometimes, painfully obvious -- like Cairo To Casablanca ...
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Chris Catania finds that it's taking longer than he thought to finish Qbadisc mastermind Ned Sublette's new history of Cuban song - he keeps running to the record store mid-page for his fix. That's the stuff.
CUBA AND ITS MUSIC: FROM THE FIRST DRUMS TO THE MAMBO BY NED SUBLETTE Chicago Review Press Ask any respected writer and you'll find that a burning curiosity usually precedes good writing. For Ned Sublette it certainly fueled the penning of Cuba and Its Music. Sublette is honest and frank from the start ...
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I'm a sucker for Christmas tunes, especially when they're performed as well a...
CUBA L.A. NAVIDAD CUBANA Narada World I'm a sucker for Christmas tunes, especially when they're performed as well as they are on Navidad Cubana. These all-instrumental versions of twelve traditional carols draw on a variety of styles -- including Latin jazz, chachacha, rumba, and comparsa -- to create ...
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Two children run away from their mothers in Havana to save their budding romance; Carl F Gauze advises against an Amber Alert and recommends you settle in and watch this gorgeous near-travelogue through the Cuban countryside.
VIVA CUBA DIRECTED BY JUAN CARLOS CREMATA MALBERTI starring Jorgito Milo Avila, Malu Tarrau Broche Film Movement You rarely get a good look at Cuba from here in The States, but from what I hear it’s a pretty island--never mind that old fossil of communism, Fidel. Malberti's Viva Cuba tells the unlikely ...
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CoLAB (Merge). Review by Aaron Shaul.
LAMBCHOP/HANDS OFF CUBA COLAB Merge Looking over Lambchop's vast Nashville-wrought '70s AM radio country catalog, it doesn't seem aching to cut up and re-spliced at the hands of two electronic artists. Kurt Wagner's outfit is the epitome of languid melancholy, a lilting lullaby for a smoker's drawl ...
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Cuba Swings (Pimenta). Review by Nicholas Vroman.
J. P. TORRES AND HIS CUBAN ALL STARS CUBA SWINGS Pimenta Latin musicians have often looked to the non-Latin songbook, whether in misguided attempts to cash in on a perceived Anglo market or out of a genuine love of great songs and the desire to add their own mark to the repertoire. This has not always ...
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Looking for a nice, sleazy beach read? Carl F. Gauze recommends Daniel Chavarria's new novel, Adios, Muchachos, a "rousing" tale of sex and Capitalism in the "Worker's Paradise" of Cuba.
ADIOS, MUCHACHOS BY DANIEL CHAVARRIA Akashic Books We all know Cuba, the land of sun, rum, and Socialism, the only true worker's paradise left in the Western Hemisphere. And it is true paradise, especially if you're a Eurocapitalist on a tourist visa. Not only is the climate nice, the locals bend over ...
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After one of the most legendary break-ups in rock n' roll history (they actually got into a fist fight onstage), the Cult have reunited, with a hit single from Gone in 60 Seconds and a new album on the way. Meanwhile, singer Ian Astbury has quietly released a solo project, and recently took some time to catch up with Gail Worley.
... place." During a period of downtime before their current career resurrection, Astbury found personal sanctuary while traveling in Tibet, Nepal, and Cuba. "I hadn't traveled on my own since I was probably eighteen," he says, "so I took advantage of the situation." A few days before the domestic release ...
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