Mundo - Ruben Blades

Titel : Mundo

Artiest(en) : Ruben Blades

Genre : Salsa

Medium : CD

Jaar : 2002

Label : Sony

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Rubén Blades "MUNDO" is een intrigerend world-salsa album fusion musical styles from all over the world.
Won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. The album also won the 2003 Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album.

Recorded at San Jose, Costa Rica, Rio De Janiero, Brazil between February and May 2001.

Rubén Blades sees music as a global thing, and working from his established base of salsa, he`s made some very credible connections between musics of the world, never more so than on Mundo, where Latin rhythms meet bagpipes and didgeridoos, Africa comes to Cuba, and the lilt of strings can develop into a percussion fest. In many ways, his singing -- although it`s the glue that holds everything together -- is the least-important element; the joy is in the sheer diversity, as on "Primogenio," where the pipes work beautifully, or the most unusual version of "Danny Boy" ever recorded. But it`s also there on "El Capitan y la Sirena," where the earthy tones of a didgeridoo underpin Latin accordion and rhythms, and in the airy, jazzy "Consideracion." Blades has always been adventurous, a real artist, but this is mature and considered, never brash or in-your-face. It makes sense and works, even when, on paper, it probably shouldn`t. It`s one world, and in his music Blades is attempting to bring it together.

Thus, there`s an elegantly deceptive sense of the organic here, whether covering the Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays anthem ""First Circle" (which showcases Brazil`s Boca Livre and Costa Rica`s Editus) or the traditional "Danny Boy" (which seamlessly fuses Celtic and Afro-Cuban influences with help from Lupa Mason and her soaring soprano). Blades also pays tribute to Brazilian songwriter Gilberto Gil with the glorious harmonies of "Consideración" (a passionate reworking of Gil`s "Oriente") and infuses the Malian traditional "Jiri Son Bali" with mambo rhythms. But the album`s most subtle cocktails issue from Blades` originals, from the gypsy homages "Parao" and "Bochinches" (the latter fueled by savory, Havana-meets-Tangier flourishes) to the reflective, jazzy "Ella" and "La Ruta," and the joyous Uilleann pipe-tinged "Sebastian" and the romping "A San Patricio." These are tracks illuminated by Blades` passionate humanism, a compelling musical argument that our cultural differences should only be the seasoning for our common dreams.

1. Estampa (Profile)

2. The First Circle

3. Primogenio (Beginings)

4. Bochinches (Gossip)

5. Ella (She)

6. Parao (On My Feet)

7. Como Nosotros (Like You And Me)

8. El Capitan y la Sirena (The Captain And The Mermaid)

9. Sebastian

10. Consideracion (Consideration)

11. Jiri Son Bali

12. Danny Boy

13. La Ruta (The Road)

14. A San Patricio

Personnel includes: Ruben Blades (vocals); Marco Linares (vocals, electric guitar); Edin Solis (acoustic guitar); Luba Mason, Medoro Madera (vocals); Nelson Gonzales (tres); Ricardo Ramirez, Gerardo Ramirez, Ricardo Ramirez, Mercedes Rodriguez, Erasmo Soler (violin); Randall Rodriguez, Lorena Alfato, Marcela Chavarria (viola); Alvaro Gonzales, Sonia Barth, Gabriella Alfaro (cello); Eric Rigler (Irish flute, bagpipes); Lalo Rojas (Irish flute, soprano saxophone); Luis Velazquez (didgeridoo); Stanley Corrales (trumpet); Alfredo Poveda, Andres Leon (trombone); Walter Flores (piano, keyboards); Marcos Navarro, (electric bass); Alejandro Solis (upright bass); Carlomagno Araya (drums); Ramses Araya, Marc Quinones, Bobby Allende (percussion).

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