(cubana, son, rumba, bolero, guaracha) VA - Pinareno: The Original Sound from the Tobacco Road of Cuba - 1992, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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Various Artists / Pinareno!
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Pinar del Rio is a province (and the name of the provincial capital) in the tobacco growing region of far western Cuba, far removed from the famous "centers of Cuban music". But as this compilation shows, there is at least one not-so-famous center of Cuban music that deserves our attention.
"From the Tobacco Road of Cuba" presents nine artists from Pinar del Rio performing 13 songs in a variety of genres: Bolero, son, guaracha, danzon, rumba... with a common characteristic holding everything together: this music is very real, immediate. Country guitars, earnest, untrained voices, and of course, the full percussion sounds we expect from Cuba. The most urban sounding band is Orquesta Cumbre with a big brassy sound, but they are definitely not as slick as their Habanero cousins.
Every song on this CD evokes images of the countryside. There are a couple of old chestnuts, La Negra Tomasa (Bilongo), Como Fue; a sweet song celebrating the friendship between Finland and Cuba [or rather dedicated to Finnish ethnomusicologists who took the trouble of recording these obscure groups in situ in December 1989 - DrB]; and perhaps one of the most unique numbers you'll ever hear in Cuban music, "El son en Cuba no muere" by the Grupo el Organo Pinareño, in which the centerpiece is a large wooden mechanical pipe organ accompanied by human percussionists. The tunes are fed into the machine on large punched cards which trigger the valves which open and close the pipes. The thing sounds like a calliope - son goes to the circus!
This CD is beautifully packaged with comprehensive liner notes that describe the music, introduce the performers and translate all the lyrics. But what really counts is the music, which is interesting, entertaining and most of all, fun!
~Bruce Ishikawa, amazon.com