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Calle Salud
by: Compay Segundo

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0639842758321
Label: East West
Manufacturer: East West
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: East West
Release Date: August 09, 1999
Studio: East West
Sales Rank: 120092

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Editorial Review:

From Amazon.com:
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 Bartlett end

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Old Havana
Compay Segundo recorded several albums on the back on the Buena Vista Social Club, with the help of a few younger friends in the Cuban music industry. Some real classics, astonishingly well performed, and thoroughly enjoyable. Compay would have done better, though, to have stuck to singing backing vocals, as his voice definitely shows his age when he sings solo. An earthy, mature sound, with all the qualities of the original Buena Vista CD, Calle Salud is the sound of the real old Havana, full of syncopated rhythms, astonishingly intricate harmonies and giving off a sense of pure happiness, enthusiasm and enjoyment in the performance.

Rating:

- A beautiful, delicate album - a sheer delight !
I was fortunate enough to see and hear Compay Segundo (y sus muschachos) in concert in London earlier this year. It was a totally unforgettable evening - people got up and started dancing ! Such was the effect of the man and his music. This album is more elegant than Buena Vista Social Club but perhaps less diverse - there are less instruments, but this gives Calle Salud its simple, unlcuttered feel. Yet the music is never dull. Even in his nineties, Compay Segundo plays with the energy and gusto that would make a young musician weep. The clarinets on Calle Salud are used to beautiful effect - in fact, the whole arrangement is just perfect. Track 4, incidentally, can be seen in the Buena Vista Social Club film, when Ry Cooder is jamming ... Read More:

Rating:

- The essence of Cuba ! The heart of rhythm !
I have been to Cuba many times and return again and again. Compay Segundo's music is what keeps me going when I'm on the wrong side of The Atlantic.

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