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Mambo Sinuendo | 
| Artist: Ry Cooder
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 18970
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 79691
UPC: 075597969122
EAN: 0075597969122
ASIN: B00007H1Y2
Release Date: January 27, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Dru Me Negrita | | • | Monte A Dentro | | • | Los Twangueros | | • | Patricia | | • | Caballo Viejo | | • | Mambo Sinuendo | | • | Bodas De Oro | | • | Echale Salsita | | • | La Luna En Tu Mirada | | • | Secret Love | | • | Bolero Sonambulo | | • | Maria La O |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Ever in pursuit of Americana beyond the mainstream (and generally from a southerly direction), guitarist Ry Cooder teams up in Mambo Sinuendo with legendary Cuban guitarist Manuel Galban. The session was inspired by the marriage of mambo and American pop that was spawned by Cuban composer Perez Prado in the 1950s, but Cooder and Galban seek a fresh perspective by setting the style for electric guitars. There are actually powerful reminders here of Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos (1998) in which guitarist Marc Ribot paid tribute to veteran Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez. So, the sound may not be that novel, but by mixing the crisp, glassy tones of Fender Stratocasters with heavy mambo rhythms, Cooder and Galban produce an atmospheric evocation of the hazy intersection between north and south America. Cooder and Galban are technically far less ambitious than Ribot, and the guitar playing, like the album as a whole, has a rough, untutored feel. This may be contrived--Cooder and Galban have been at the guitar for many years--but the sense of amateurism adds to the folksy atmosphere and, effortful or not, they produce much attractive playing. Among the highlights are some shimmering false harmonic work on "Dru Me Negrita" and some barking chord fills on "Patricia" that recall Django Reinhardt at his most visceral. The band (also featuring Jim Keltner, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Joachim Cooder and Anga Diaz) builds up an exciting head of steam on the highlife-flavoured "Monte A Dentro", even if the track fades just as it should intensify. In fact, if the album has any shortcoming, it is a tendency occasionally to under-develop its material. The cynical may suspect Cooder's motives in following his mega-selling Buena Vista Social Club with another Cuban-based album. But his fascination with southern flavours long predates Buena Vista and the cultural tourism that surrounded it. Mambo Sinuendo may safely be seen as another successful episode in an organically evolving career. --Mark Gilbert
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Its mambo time 2! August 5, 2008
Put on the obscenely patterned hawiian shirt, pour a margarita (or at least an ice cold beer), find a warm place to sit/lie/flop put on the shades and chill. As the man said ..the return of Santo and Johnny - Turbo version. If you don't like this record you must be dead or at least be on very strong medication. I'll say one word .... and that word is TWANG!
Now slam the CD on, throw us a lime and Tequilla and I'm gone. Solid gone.Good price by the way.
I commend this CD to the house.
 lost in the wilderness " Gota Move ON " April 11, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well man what can I say have loved and listened to cooder all my life, and willing engaged with all the vast changes in the mans career. Cant get around this one Link Wray was always difficult and the similarity here with his work is uncanny Cooders talent and undoubted ability to rediscover and present obscure artists to the world is second to none with the exception of Chris Blackwell, but unfortunately it ends there This album gives the impresion of an artist running on empty try to keep to a recording contract,it does nothing to expose Manuel Galban as a virtuoso or indeed any new influence hence my inclusion and comparison with Link Wray. In its defense I will say I had to listen out of curiosity. Jazz, Paradise and Lunch, and indeed Border line have memorable moments as with Ali Fakoure Toure. But I cant help thinking That he needs to pall up with A martin Taylor, Simpson, or a buding Django to inject a bit of spontinaety come cooder " YOU GOTA MOVE ON "
Santo & Johnny Revisited June 23, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Santo & Johnny had a big hit in the US in 1959 with their own composition, "Sleepwalking". It was a very pleasant, inoffensive instrumental that launched a wave of interest in latino music. "Mambo Sinuendo" is what Santo & Johnny would have put together today. It's simple, relaxing but engaging mood music, very evocative of sitting on a patio or hotel balcony in the summer sun, sipping rum and cola, reading a favourite book. It's also what you'd want on as background to making love. It's not cerebal but then it's not elevator music and, artistically, it's quite stunning. If you've been to Cuba this is what you'd listen to as reminder of your time there. Tasty.
 Something Different? February 22, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is something a little different, with the usual Ry Cooder style, that I will find myself listening to time and time again, and with more coming across with each visit. It is good to find some music that's imaginative whilst still being accessible and pleasing to the ear.
 Missed opportunity July 28, 2003
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
I like Ry Cooder. But something for me has gone horribly pear-shaped here. The playing seems mechanical, and rather cold, which is somewhat at odds with the intrinsic Cuban style of the album. Very strange. I won't speculate about why, and plenty of people will love this album.
But I don't, sadly. I'll take the one good track that Bob Harris likes. You can keep the rest if you like.
Ah well.
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