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Silvio Rodriguez is one of Cuba's most elequent musicians, and the compilation SILVIO features many of the veteran singer/songwriter/poet's most elequent compositions. Culled from between 1989-92, this digitally remastered set features 12 tunes including "Companera" and "Trove de Egardo."
Digitally remastered edition of 12 beautiful songs written and recorded by Rodriguez between 1989 and 1992.
All songs written by Silvio Rodriguez. Silvio Rodriguez Silvio Songs | 1. | Companera |
| 2. | Trova de Edgardo |
| 3. | Desilusion, La |
| 4. | Y Mariana |
| 5. | Abracadabra |
| 6. | Hombre |
| 7. | Monologo |
| 8. | Necio, El |
| 9. | Guitarra del Joven Soldado, La |
| 10. | Quien Fuera |
| 11. | Juego Que Me Regalo un 6 de Enero |
| 12. | Crisis |
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Silvio Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Return
With "Silvio", Silvio Rodriguez began his 90's trilogy ("Silvio", "Rodriguez", "Dominguez"). Probably, "Silvio" is the best, or at leas the most accesible, of the three. It marks an apparent change in relation to his previous albums. In "Silvio", Rodriguez return to his former basic form--only guitar. The songs are all beatiful. The album shows also how creative Silvio is form in demonstring social engagement. The entire album talks about the Cuban economic and social crisis after the defeat of socialism in East Europe and the desappearing of USSR. The just-melody "Crisis" shows the improductivity of the epoch. "El Necio" is a declaration of compromise in times of threat to the revolution. Probably the most beautiful engage song of the album is "Monologo". There are homage both to Edgard Alan Poe ("Trova de Edgardo") and el Che Guevara ("Hombre"). "Quien fuera" is a wonderful love song, a man shows his lover the wishes to be mockingbird, or Lennon and McCarney, or Violeta Parra, or Sindo Garay, or just her trovador. "La canción" declares the ambiguos estatus of the music between the bussines and the real human company.
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Purchase Silvio CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits CD (2000)
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"Again" won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance and was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
For the five albums prior to the release of GREATEST HITS, Kravitz doggedly mined the influence of late-1960s/early-'70s icons Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Sly Stone, and Curtis Mayfield, churning out groovy, guitar-heavy music that updated those classic sounds without necessarily reinventing them. But all of this, ironically, is to his credit, because it is the overwhelming familiarity of Kravitz's sound that holds such powerful appeal.
GREATEST HITS collects Kravitz's best-known singles under one cover, from the blazing Hendrix-inspired opener "Are You Gonna Go My Way" to the Philly Soul ballad "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" (complete with backing strings) to his stadium-tailored cover of the Guess Who's "American Woman." The set reaches back to Kravitz's 1989 debut, LET LOVE RULE, and up to 2000's previously unreleased single "Again," showcasing, all the while, the performer's knack for pleasure-triggering songcraft, singing, and production. Though some critics may thumb their noses at Kravitz's blatantly retro music, his tunes are undeniably raucous, catchy, and fun.
Personnel includes: Lenny Kravitz (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, sitar, bass, drums); Abraham Appleman, Elena Barere, Barry Finclair, Regis Iandiorio, Jean Ingraham, Paul Peabody, Joel Pitchon, Richard Sortomme, Dale Stuckenbruck (violin); Lamar Alsop, Julien Barber, Susan Pray (viola); Richard Locker, Eugene Moye, Mark Shuman, Fred Zlotkin (cello); Richard Sarpola (bass).
Engineers include: Henry Hirsch, Kevin Halpin.
| | Silvio Rodriguez Mujeres CD (1992) Remastered
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Originally released in 1978, Silvio Rodríguez's Mujeres is often regarded as his masterpiece, representing a great artist at his very best. Instrumentally spare and transparent, the record is sonically crystal clear and shining. Rodríguez's guitar is bright and shimmering, and his voice has a bell-like open tone that would never sound quite as unencumbered and free again. The playlist includes some of his very finest material, including the light yet impassioned "Río" and heartbreaking "Y Nada Más." Recordings both before and after this album would have a significantly more produced, polished sound, with complex instrumentation and sophisticated studio work. The impression left by Mujeres is that of having heard Rodríguez give a private concert in his living room. The subtle intricacies of his guitar performance and emotional nuance of his lyrics are laid bare in the empty sonic space. Though some may prefer to hear Rodríguez in a more commercial context, Mujeres is a rare, listening room-style treat for those who would prefer a more intimate experience. ~ Evan C. Gutierrez
Digitally remastered. Originally released in 1978.
| | Silvio Rodriguez Unicornio CD (1982) Import
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UNICORNIO is a 10-track digitally-remastered 1995 release by Latin artist Silvio Rodriguez, including "Por Quien Merece Amor" and "Cancion Urgente Para Nicaragua."
Silvio Rodriguez, often called the heart and mind of the Nueva Trova movement, has long been a leading social and political commentator for the Cuban people. Long before his 1981 release Unicornio, Rodriguez had been writing songs inspired by his country's Socialist Revolution in 1959. It was not until this release, however, that his artistry came to international notice. Nueva Trova (New Cuban Song) put the island on the map as not only a jazz/Afro-Caribbean hot spot, but as an environment that encouraged great intellect and poetry in its music. Rodriguez appropriately became the genre's most visible figure, performing all over the America's and encouraging similar musical trends to flourish in his wake (Nueva Cancion in Argentina). Unicornio is not only a gem of lyricism and socialist sentiment, but also a musical triumph. Featuring styles such as chacarera, Cuban fusion, North American folk music and the roots of Latin pop, Rodriguez puts a sweet coating on his political pill. Even bitter commentary goes down easy, thanks to Rodriguez' intelligent melodic sense and pleasant voice. Like the Beatles White Album and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life, Silvio Rodriguez' Unicornio is a record that not only helped define an artist, but an entire genre. ~ Evan C. Gutierrez
Digitally remastered reissue of the original album including ten songs written and recorded by Silvio Rodriguez in 1982.
| | Silvio Rodriguez Causas Y Azares Vol. 1 & 2 CD (1992) (Import) Argentina
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| | Silvio Rodriguez Rodriguez CD (1995) Remastered
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Here's 11 tracks from Argentine musician Silvio Rodriguez, dedicated to his father; 1994.
When Ry Cooder went to Cuba in 1996 in search of the "deeply funky" rhythms the island had been famous for at mid-century -- danzón, bolero, rhumba, son -- the resulting album, The Buena Vista Social Club, made Grammy-winning, arena-packing superstars of its octogenarian musicians, and cleared the way to international airplay and success for dozens of others. And so it came to pass that northern Europeans flocked to salsa classes, that bartenders in the Midwest began serving up mojitos, that Celia Cruz received a queen's burial; yet the international reputation of the unassuming man who is arguably the island's most influential living recording artist failed to profit much at all from these high years of Cubanismo.
Silvio Rodriguez plays the guitar and sings with the voice of one of its own high strings, pulled perhaps a little tight. Melancholy, sardonic, tender or bemused, his is an organic music, starting with a spare, oddly syncopated bassline, gaining chords and momentum with each go-round. It's a ballad that arrives half-remembered from a bustling coffee house, hemmed in by a crowd of would-be poets, intellectuals, and revolutionaries. You sing along before you even know the words. Rodriguez is a trovador, a folk singer/balladeer. Much has been made of the Nueva Trova movement's leftist political agenda, yet the songs on this acoustic self-titled release are for the most part lullabies and gentle love songs, full of barnacles and constellations and vast Whitmanesque "Song of Myself" lyrical gestures. Recorded between 1992 and 1994 in Havana and dedicated to Rodriguez's father, who died during this time, it is the artist's most personal and accessible effort, his Ars Poetica.
Rodriguez's great talent as a lyricist may be one of the reasons that so few people outside of Spanish-speaking circles know his work; and while it's true that foreign listeners will miss the subtl
| | Silvio Rodriguez Al Final De Este Viaje CD (1995) (Import) Remastered
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1995 release from the nueva cancion singer/songwriter.
| | Thin White Rope Exploring The Axis CD (1985)
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Hailing from the northern California town of Davis, Thin White Rope was initially pegged as a proponent of the paisley underground movement. Such labeling, however, tells half the story at best. The list of bands the group went on to cover over the course of their ten-year career is actually more revealing. Songs by Suicide, the Stooges, Lee Hazlewood, Marty Robbins, Bob Dylan, Can, and a James Bond theme have all been rendered by the band in the studio and on-stage. That list goes a long way in explaining the mixture of raw, angular riffs, southern twang, and icy psychedelia that characterizes Exploring the Axis, the group's 1985 debut. What it does not convey, perhaps, is the relative bleakness of Thin White Rope's music. Frontman Guy Kyser, guitarist Roger Kunkel, bassist Stephen Tesluk, and drummer Jozef Becker outline a series of barren landscapes, their instruments kicking up clouds of dust from the parched earth like a rollicking, rickety ghost-train headed south. At times Jeff Eyrich's productions approach the wintry heir of Martin Hannett's work with Joy Division. This climate is ideal for Kyser, who delivers tales of isolation, allusion, and death; his voice a perpetually unsteady quake. Unfortunately, he hadn't yet learned how to pace himself, continually reaching for the drama inherent in the songs at the expense of lyrical nuances. Though subsequent releases would see a maturing of the band's sound, Exploring the Axis would remain the blueprint. ~ Nathan Bush
Thin White Rope: Stephen Tesluk (vocals, guitar, bass); Guy Kyser, Roger Kunkel (vocals, guitar); Jozef Becker (drums).
2LPs on 1 CD: EXPLORING THE AXIS/BOTTOM FEEDERS.
| | Johnny Ventura 10 De Coleccion CD (2005) Remastered
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Track Listing of songs: Pitaste?; Capullo y Solullo; Trulla, La; Patacon Pisao; Como Yo Rio; Inseminacion, La; Muerto Parrandero, El; Cirugia, La; De lo Que Tu Tienes; Como el Cafe;
| | Ella Fitzgerald All Roads Lead To Rome CD (2005)
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Ella Fitzgerald performs her celebrated and inimitable jazz in two live concerts: one at the Newport Jazz Festival and another in Rome in 1958.
The Newport Jazz Festival date features Ella Fitzgerald's sizzling vocal talents showcased in a small band setting that boasts the participation of pianist Don Abney, bassist Wendell Marshall and drummer Jo Jones. Nearly a year after the Newport Jazz Festival date Ella performed one of her most celebrated concerts in Rome on April 25, 1958. The vocalist is backed here by her regular piano trio of the period, which includes pianist Lou Levy, bassist Max Bennett and drummer Gus Johnson. Gambi. 2005.
Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Don Abney, Lou Levy (piano); Gus Johnson, Jo Jones (drums).
Recording information: Freebody Park, Newport, RI (07/04/1957/04/25/1958); Rome, Italy (07/04/1957/04/25/1958).
| | Sergio Vargas Sabrosonas Del Recuerdo CD (2005)
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Track Listing of songs: Quiero a Morir, La; Ventanita, La; Vamos a Dejarlo; Ni Tu Ni Yo; Perfume de Rosas; Aquello Que Me Diste; Yo Que Te Ame; Manana; Noche; Que Te Has Creido; Si Algun Dia la Vez; Maquinolandera;
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