Very Best Of Ruben Blades CD United Kingdom

Very Best Of Ruben Blades Music

Category	International Albums, Latin CDs, Latin Pop, Salsa/Tropical, Greatest Hits Collections, Tropical
Label	Charly
Orig Year	2004
All Time Sales Rank	287280
CD Universe Part number	6734212
Catalog number	361348
Discs	1
Release Date	Oct 10, 2006
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Additional Info	2CD; United Kingdom

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To listen to this collection is to know that in the '60s, ground zero for "pure pop genius" was not only located in England or the U.S., but in turbulent, bubbling Brazil. This collection presents the very cream of the crazy cream of Os Mutantes, with 14 tracks hand-picked by Beco Dranoff and David Byrne. While these brilliant, psychedelic recordings are best appreciated in the context of the three albums from which they are mostly culled, the music found here offers a wonderful glimpse of the dynamic pop magic that was Os Mutantes. There's the purple-hazed crawl of "Dia 36," with Baptista-brand wobbled vocals and bizarre, inverted wah-wah acoustic guitar. There are two versions of the lovely gem "Baby," the 1968 version lulling along to the sound of reverb-vibrato guitar and toy organ while that ...

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