Compay Segundo - Calle Salud
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Artist: Compay SegundoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-11-02
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Saludo A Chango
- Amor Gigante
- Una Rosa De Francia
- Maria En La Playa
- Versos Para Ti
- La Enganadora
- Viejos Sones De Santiago
- El Dia Que Me Quieras
- Se Perdio La Flauta
- Morir De Amor
- Lagrimas Negras
- Balcon De Santiago
- Chan Chan
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Free Music Review: Great album of classic Latin songs, but...
Hit: 4 Stars
This is without a doubt a great album made up of classic Latin songs (not just from Cuba, since you also find tunes like Gardel's "El Dia que me Quieras"). However, I have a problem with it: I don't enjoy the fact that it's been put out as a Compay Segundo album, when in most of the songs, due to his age, it's not even his voice that stands out (or is listed as Lead Vocals at all, for the matter, Hugo Garzon appears as such in most of the tracks).As a son of a Cuban-born music-loving woman, I was raised listening on and off to some of these tunes, so I love them, but I hate the feeling of exploitation that this album exhudes. Unlike other Buena Vista-related releases, such as Ibrahim Ferrer's or Ruben Gonzalez, where they still perform beyond any doubt, Cuban musical legend Compay Segundo should have been receiving tributes by the time this album came out, not made pose for an album where he could barely be noticed. Now, like Celia Cruz, he's no longer with us, so this is almost like a post-mortem rant... My two cents.
Calle Salud Poster
With age-defying suppleness, Cuban vocalist (and nonagenarian) Compay Segundo helped supercharge the 1997 smash Buena Vista Social Club and, in 1998, his own Lo Mejor de la Vida with his full-bodied voice. Calle Salud, then, comes in 1999 on the tail of both artistic and commercial zeniths and unfolds a series of songs that remains resolutely in the same laid-back realm as Segundo's other late-1990s successes. If anything, Calle Salud is more lush, more embedded in the layers of clarinets that sway as if trying to stay cool on a humid, tropical afternoon. The woody burnish of the licorice sticks, along with the loosely strung guitar and bass and the subtle bed of percussion, makes a pliable cushion for Segundo's rich vocals. He sings with a mixture of cool distance and unflinching commitment to the music's inherent romance. He sings as if at any moment his voice could drop into a full baritone and bellow forth, but instead he lays back with the guitars and keeps the music at an imaginatively rendered slow stroll. It's no wonder that Cuba has nurtured--whether on purpose or not--such talents as this, what with the island's legs in the Afro-Caribbean and its heart worn on its songs. Even in his 90s, Segundo leaves listeners feeling as if something both supremely new and deeply ensconced in tradition has happened in their presence. --Andrew BartlettInternational Music CDs
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