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SublimeThat's pianist Bebo Valdes, one of Cuba's great jam session players of the 1950s (and still a potent force on the music scene) and flamenco vocalist Diego "El Cigala," whose half-croaked, Arabic-tinged inflections offer a fine counterpoint to Valdes's trademark sleek, supple piano runs. Cigala sounds like he, too, must be an ancient old-timer, un viejo, like all those Buena Vista dudes... But in fact he is a youngster, a ponytailed whippersnapper who just happens to channel weight of the the age…
Not for MeAside from the fine quality of the musicianship all around on this CD, it's not for me. I really can't stand the juxtoposition of the two main styles- Cuban bolero and Spanish flamenco. For me, bolero calls for such sweet melancholy, and flamenco singing does not evoke that: in this mix it just sounds tortured. Kudos for the effort, always worth trying, but to me it's not listenable. And most critics and audiences disagree with me anyway!
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