Sunday, February 02, 2003

New Ry Cooder album

As the article I posted last week said, Ry Cooder's Mambo Sinuendo is "an album of seductively menacing Cuban guitar music." Now that I've listened to it about a dozen times, what I would say is that this is the first totally cool music of 2003.

     Imagine - June, 1958 -- back alley underground Havana bar. Beneath the intertwining shadows of a ceiling fan and cigar smoke, a young, fiery Fidel Castro is doing bong hits with Duane Eddy and Link Wray. On stage, Rubén González sits in with the The Ventures...

This album lacks the majesty of the Buena Vista Social Club, but I really dig it and recommended it highly.


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White House Cancels Poetry Symposium

I'd love to hear Ginsberg sing a sutra about this.


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