Compay Segundo / Duets – CD (Used)

Author: Compay Segundo

Features:

• World Music / Cuba

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 16-04-2002

Details: Product descriptionSEGUNDO COMPAYAmazon.caCompay Segundo is 95 years young, andDuets is here to prove it. Not all the tracks on this charming compilation are the fruits of his 90s–one comes to us from 1950, when he and his compadres were in their sprightly 40s–but some tracks are, in the circumstances, quite astonishingly innovative. Who would have thought that Cuba and Algeria could fuse? But here they do, courtesy of ‘s smokily Arabic tones: while Compay growls, the rai star weaves melismas above. And what is doing here? Answer–providing a quintessentially Aznavourian descant over Compay’s ground bass. ‘s presence is here, too muted for my taste–was she concerned not to upstage her host? Fellow-Buena Vista star blends altogether more comfortably, as one might