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LAMENTO NEGRO won the 2002 Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.
1986's Lamento Negro was recorded not in Susana Baca's native Peru, but in Cuba with a group of musicians left uncredited on the sleeve. (Before getting your hopes up, no, it doesn't sound like any members of the Buena Vista Social Club are involved.) Although elements of the more familiar Afro Peruvian style first introduced to U.S. audiences on 1997's Susana Baca are present and accounted for (note the glorious "Maria Lando"), Lamento Negro incorporates elements of Afro-Cuban jazz, Brazilian pop, and even classical art song. Most of the tracks, rather than being traditional songs, are musical settings of poems by the likes of Pablo Neruda, Mario Benedetti, and Cesar Vellejo. The resulting tracks are often bracing, but they tend to be hemmed in by the meter of the poetry itself; the recasting of Neruda's "Los Marineros," a funeral dirge set to a haunting, lovely string melody, is fascinating, but one does occasionally wish for the more subtle rhythmic looseness of Baca's more traditional records. The album was originally a Cuban-only release; it was issued in the U.K. and U.S. in 2001, apparently against Baca's wishes. ~ Stewart Mason
Recorded at EGREM Studios, Havana, Cuba.
Recording information: EGREM Studios, Havana, Cuba.
Editors: Julio Etchart; Jan Fairley; Paul Morris.
Introduction by: Jan Fairley.
Photographer: Julio Etchart. Susana Baca Lamento Negro Songs Lamento Negro Music Review Average Rating: (3 out of 5 stars)  Good CD, but not as good as her Eco De Sombras Album
Lyrically, this is a beautiful CD. The majority of the songs are actually poems written by Pablo Neruda, so fans of the Chilean Poet would be very pleased.
The music however, while interesting, didn't move me. I may have been expecting too much, because I love her Eco de Sombras album, and that CD moves me. This album feels like they are trying to move the listener whereas Eco de Sombras simply did.
Despite my 3 stars Susana Baca's voice continues to brilliantly shine, and it is a good CD, just not as good as Eco.
Submitted by jmqmurray (San Jose, CA) 
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