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Artist:
Estudiantina Invasora
Label: Nimbus Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 710357544828 EAN: 0710357544828 ASIN: B0000037G9 Release Date: 1995-12-12 |
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Customer Reviews:
It will change your mood and maybe your life.......2002-09-20
Estudiantina Invasora has been around for nearly a century.
They play as a son septet and their sound is simply gorgeous.
They play with such delicacy and such love for the music that no words can do them justice.
In this album, you will listen as each instrument take the spotlight and the rest provide backup. The tres, for example, will be playing it's own little melody in the background while the brass frolics. Then, the tres will step up and the lead while the brass fades.
Their cover is Matamoros' "El Paralitico" is sunshine itself, and "Lagrimas Negras" (another Matamoros masterpiece) will haunt you.
A curveball is Caballo Viejo, a Venezuelan cumbia that has found it's way into Cuba. Quite a compliment. Here. we hear that old classic played as only a son septet can play.
The rest of the tunes are Estudiantina's own, and are dripping with a lush sound that is the band's trademark. Long instrumental segments abound.
The only downside: a comically bad attempt at translation of the lyrics in the notes.
If you want something to listen to that can turn a bad day into a great day, this is it.
Music CD:
Music CD
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Unite Tonight ~ Those Peabodys
Tonight the Midway Shines ~ Ga Ga's
Greatest Hits ~ Fania All-Stars
Good Rockin' Tonight: Legacy of Sun Records ~ Various Artists
Eve's Bayou: The Collection ~ Jimmy Radcliffe , and Bobby "Blue" Bland