Buenos Hermanos

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At 77, Ibrahim Ferrer has lost none of his cheeky charm. Buenos Hermanos lives beautifully up to its title--"Good Brothers"--with those Cuban stalwarts Cachaito Lopez and Chucho Valdes joined by that genius of the electric guitar, Manuel Galban, and with the Blind Boys of Alabama enriching the basic mix. Moreover, Ry Cooder, who originally coaxed Buena Vista Social Club into life, here acts as midwife once again. This CD, he says, was "the last chance in the world today to work with such a voice." Well, Ferrer's voice no longer has the ringing exhilaration we heard on his solo album, Ibrahim Ferrer. His effects are more muted now, more laid back, but they still cover a kaleidoscopic range of tone and color. He delivers his boleros with lovely swing, and he radiates the genuineness of a premarketing age. It's easy to believe that most of these tracks were one-takes: the whole thing has wonderful freshness. --Michael Church

Product Description
Ferrer's first release since 1999s gold-certified debut Buena Vista Social Club Presents. Ibrahim Ferrer is full of surprises. The band includes Blind Boys of Alabama and Jon Hassell on trumpet. 13 tracks with Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003.

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Average customer rating: Bueno Musica Solid comeback from Ibrahim Ferrer Too much Ry This is an AWESOME sounding disc! It's Ibrahim ... what more do you need to know?

Buenos Hermanos Ibrahim Ferrer Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cuba | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Son | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Manuel Guajiro Mirabal Introducing...Rubén González Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo Buena Vista Social Club ASIN: B00008BG2G Release Date: 2003-03-18

Tracks:

1. Boquinene
2. Buenos Hermanos
3. La Musica Cubana
4. Guaguanco Callejero
5. Naufragio
6. Como el Arrullo de Palma
7. Perfume de Gardenias
8. Mil Congojas
9. Hay que Entrarle a Palos a Ese
10. No Tiene Telerana
11. Fuiste Cruel
12. Boliviana
13. Oye el Consejo

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At 77, Ibrahim Ferrer has lost none of his cheeky charm. Buenos Hermanos lives beautifully up to its title--"Good Brothers"--with those Cuban stalwarts Cachaito Lopez and Chucho Valdes joined by that genius of the electric guitar, Manuel Galban, and with the Blind Boys of Alabama enriching the basic mix. Moreover, Ry Cooder, who originally coaxed Buena Vista Social Club into life, here acts as midwife once again. This CD, he says, was "the last chance in the world today to work with such a voice." Well, Ferrer's voice no longer has the ringing exhilaration we heard on his solo album, Ibrahim Ferrer. His effects are more muted now, more laid back, but they still cover a kaleidoscopic range of tone and color. He delivers his boleros with lovely swing, and he radiates the genuineness of a premarketing age. It's easy to believe that most of these tracks were one-takes: the whole thing has wonderful freshness. --Michael Church

Album Description

Ferrer's first release since 1999s gold-certified debut Buena Vista Social Club Presents. Ibrahim Ferrer is full of surprises. The band includes Blind Boys of Alabama and Jon Hassell on trumpet. 13 tracks with Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Bueno Musica.......2007-02-12

I first heard Ibrahim on PBS in the Buena Vista Social Club Special. I have loved his feel for the music ever since, he has just the right cadence, timing, sound and feel for the cubano music, I've heard other cubano's sing the same songs but they come alive when Ibrahim sings them. When I'm in the mood for the latin beat and sound of another era this is the first artist I think about.

Solid comeback from Ibrahim Ferrer.......2003-11-08

Four years after his successful 'Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer' the now 76-year old Cuban singer still holds on strong and delivers an album that surpasses his "debut" album (I don't mean the quotes in a disrespectful way, but rather with regards to the fact that he was only exposed to the world back in 1999 by Ry Cooder).

With a solid band with some of Buena Vista Social Club's performers and the Cooder father/son team also on board, and having picked an exquisite combination of some compositions of his own and some Latin music standards, Ferrer is bound to make you get off your chair and dance, even if your deaf or have two left feet! From the first chord, time freezes around you and he embarks on a mission to make you smile and have a great time, without regards for anything troubling you. After all, he is the best example there is of getting a break: he made into stardom at age 73, so that oughta tell you something.

Highlights of the album: the opening track (loved it) and the classic "Perfume de Gardenia" with the thoughful participation of the Blind Boys of Alabama. Get it, love it, dance to it!

Too much Ry.......2003-11-01

Unlike Buena Vista and Mas Cuba Libres where Ry wisely stayed in the background and only occasionally made himself know, here he takes center stage once in a while.
In spite of this, there's just too much talent in this album to give it less than 4 stars.

While Mr. Cooder is to be commended by making such great music (I am particularly grateful for the rebirth of Ibrahim's and Ruben's careers) accessible to Americans after decades of withdrawal feebly filled in by the soulless and superficial commercial sop called 'salsa' it's worthwhile to mention that Europeans have been enjoying the renaissance of Cuban music for years. It was the release of the Estrellas de Areito in France in the late 70's that has snowballed into the rediscovery of this most sublime and richest of all music.

Ibrahim fans, checkout a Edenway's recent release of Ibrahim's 1950's recordings with Chepin's Orquesta Oriental. If you think his voice is honey smooth now, you should listen to him as a youngster.

This is an AWESOME sounding disc!.......2003-09-09

Not only is the music on these "Buena" discs great and funky, the recording quality is beautiful. Recorded in the Egrem studios, it is one of the few discs that actually capture the vibe of the studio, where the drums are placed, and who the background singers are standing behind. If you think these are bad recordings, you don't have the proper listening equipment. You can almost feel the shape and size of the place, what the walls are made of. CD's are mostly recorded in the setting of a soundproof studio, where sometimes the sound that recorded is lifeless, but with a black background, and super digitized. These CD's are the opposite, and you feel like you are in the studio. look at the liner notes for the Buena Vista social Club, and Mambo Sinuendo, and you can see how the mics are set up, and you can tell why it sound the way it does. I bet the mics used in this recording are vintage and priceless (obscure).

It's Ibrahim ... what more do you need to know?.......2003-06-03

If this were just Ibrahim Ferrer reading from the Havana telephone directory, I'd have bought it anyway. But it's much more, of course. This loveable man brings one of the most moving interpretations ever to THE richest form of music on earth. And now nearly eighty years old, he doesn't appear to have slowed down one bit, nor to have lost any of his magic.

If you know Ibrahim Ferrer's music, then there is nothing I need to add. But if you don't, and if you love music, then you MUST get to know Ibrahim Ferrer. When his moment in the spotlight finally arrived, he didn't believe it, and practically had to be dragged to the studio. Now, audiences the world over have fallen in love with him.

The bad news is that it's recorded at the Egrem Studios in Havana. But even the miserable quality of that half drowned studio, with its ancient equipment, can't hold back the brilliance of Cuban musicians.

The good news is that Ry Cooder plays solo. I mean that he plays so low that you can't even tell he's playing. Apparently, he's finally gotten the message. Ry, we love you for what you have done to popularize artists like Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa and so many others. But slide guitar just doesn't go with son, pilón, or guaguancó.

And let's not forget the other musicians and singers (the usual suspects, of course): Manuel Galbán, Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, Amadito Valdés, Chucho Valdés, Miguel "Angá" Díaz, José Antonio Rodríguez and so many others.

My recommendation is that you buy this CD. You won't regret it. It's beautiful, it's soulful, it's moving, it's vibrant, it's Ibrahim!!!

Average customer rating: Alison Young: A little Tango Fabulous Flute CD - even my plumber liked it! Wonderful performances and quite beautiful music Getting Some Tango in Your Blood A real musical treat by a fine musician

A Little Tango in Her Blood Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Ginastera | Ginastera, Alberto | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Piazzolla, Astor | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B000051Y8I Release Date: 2000-11-28

Tracks:

1. Poema Del Pastor Coya: Con La Chola Y El Changuito
2. Poema Del Pastor Coya: Quena
3. Poema Del Pastor Coya: Danzando
4. Milonga De Dos Hermanos
5. El Desbande
6. Pastoral Calchaqui
7. Ste Argentina: Aire De Chacarera
8. Ste Argentina: Zamba
9. Ste Argentina: Malambo
10. Milonga Sin Palabras
11. Introduccion Y Allegro
12. Don Agustin Bardi
13. Impresiones De La Puna: Quena
14. Impresiones De La Puna: Cancion
15. Impresiones De La Puna: Danza
16. Fuga Y Misterio
17. Chiquilin De Bachin
18. Lo Que Vendra

Customer Reviews:

Alison Young: A little Tango.......2001-03-12

Alison Young's recording, "A Little Tango in Her Blood," is a superb set of flute and piano performances of contemporary Argentine music. With rather more than just a little tango in her blood, Ms. Young performs this Argentinean program with Latin character and a silvery tone, and Vicki Seldon is her lively and sensitive collaborator on piano. Composers on this CD include well-known names, especially Ginastera and Piazzolla, and some less-familiar but mostly excellent ones.

The performances are first-class in artistry and technique, while style, character, and mood provide solidly satisfying listening. The flute sound is especially gorgeous, with an lovely low register and stability of tone throughout the entire range, and one simply hears no breathing. Technical challenges abound and are fully met, but one gets a sense of an emphasis on music-making rather than virtuosity; these players are bringing us music rather than merely showing how good they are. Technique and balances are consistently excellent.

Half the bands on the CD are transcriptions by Ms. Young, which would ordinarily induce some reservations for this reviewer. However these are musical, intelligent, and idiomatic transcriptions, and one would be pressed to discern which are original works and which are the transcriptions in this collection. One other fine transcription is by Enrique Granados.

Piazzolla is represented, of course, by several tangos, including a very early one. And one of his last compositions, Milonga sin Palabras, Song without Words, is dedicated to his wife. A fugue, surprisingly, is in the final set of three works of this collection, by Piazzolla, Fuga y Misterio, with much rhythmic character and an unexpectedly Bachian rather than bacchanalian quality though still Latin in quality, arranged by Granados. The brief, lyrical contrasting section is lovely. The final two works are moody and dramatic.

Ginastera's Impresiones de la Puna, in three movements, is an early work, dating from 1934. Arranged by Ms. Young, it has two slow movements, and a lively, rhythmic dance finale. It is fascinating and musically rewarding to hear a Ginastera quite a bit younger than the one we hear for example in his more familiar orchestral Variations Concertantes. It's like seeing early paintings by Mondrian or Picasso-so different from the later works yet with seeds of what is to come.

Some splendid surprises are works by composers new to this reviewer: Angel Lasala's Poema de Pastor Coya, and Horacio Salgán's Suite Argentina and Don Agustín Bardi. Lasala's Poema is in three movements with both a singing quality and rhythmic variety. The latter composer, Salgán, has much personality and character showing through in his music. His Suite Argentina is a recording premiere and it has rhythmic interest, a danced quality, and a strong lyrical sense.

The liner notes, in English and Spanish, are informative with texts of the original works when they are songs. Borges and Ferrer are amiong the poets. I warmly recommend this recording to those interested in fine flute playing, in Argentinean music, and to the general music lover.

Arthur Lewis, violist; Professor emeritus, Illinois State University; Lecturer, Emory University

Fabulous Flute CD - even my plumber liked it!.......2001-03-03

I love this recording! As a fellow flutist, I can appreciate the high level of technical ability and musicianship demonstrated by Ms. Young in "...a little tango in her blood". In addition to her soaring, lyrical sound and impeccable intonation, Ms. Young has a wonderfully intuitive sense of style and feel for the music. I would recommend this recording for all types, from classical music buffs to the casual listener.

Wonderful performances and quite beautiful music.......2001-02-25

I am very impressed by both the music selections and, more importantly, the wonderful performance. Ms. Young plays beautifully and with a true feel for the music. This, combined with an excellent musical rapport with Ms. Selden, gives a real life to these well chosen selections of Argentinian music. I highly reccomend this CD.

Getting Some Tango in Your Blood.......2001-02-22

Alison Young, a flute recitalist of great poise and technical security, dazzling precision and virtuosic flare and the Principle Flute of the Houston Ballet Orchestra, demonstrates her considerable talents in ALISON YOUNG ... A LITTLE TANGO IN HER BLOOD. This work on the Albany Records label takes full advantage of Alison Young's experiences in Argentina as a musician artist-in-residence in 1998, performing and teaching in the regions of Patagonia, La Plata, Buenos Aires and Corrientes. Alison Young recreates the atmosphere of the native music of Argentina in a way that will transport you to South America. Composers highlighted in this work include Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Guastavino, Alberto Ginastera, Angel Lasala, Hector Gallac and Horacio Salgan. A newspaper in Argentina (Rio Negro) reported on "...Alison Young, with a little tango in her blood" and this wonderful collection of flute pieces will surely put a little tango in your blood as well.

A real musical treat by a fine musician.......2001-02-22

A flutist of unusual accomplishment and musicality, Ms. Young's rendition of an Argentine repertoire sounds as if she had been born on the Pampas and brought up in the sophistication of Buenos Aires. The playing is superb, and the music is a treat to listen to, especially because much of it is new to North American ears. In addition, the extensive notes, written by Ms. Young and printed in both English and Spanish, provide a rich scholarly background to the music and are worth the price of the CD by themselves.

Average customer rating:

Buenos Hermanos Conjunto Matamoros & Beny More Manufacturer: Hfl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Latin General | Latin Music | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Latin General | Latin Music | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B0000259JM

Tracks:

1. Dejame Gozar Mulata - Septeto Matamoros
2. Retrato - Septeto Matamoros
3. Conga del Pilar - Miguel Matamoros,
4. Buenos Hermanos - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
5. Ofrenda Criolla - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
6. Se Va a Morir - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
7. Cazuelita - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
8. Sere Dichoso - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
9. Penicilina - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
10. Que Sera Eso? - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
11. Me la Llevo - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
12. Oyeme - Conjunto Matamoros
13. Penas de Mi Alma - Conjunto Matamoros
14. Cosas de Ayer - Conjunto Matamoros
15. Camina y Ven Pa'La Loma - Conjunto Matamoros
16. Baila Mi Son - Conjunto Matamoros
17. Que Te Estan Mirando - Conjunto Matamoros
18. Mi Unica Boca - Conjunto Matamoros
19. Soy Maraquero - Conjunto Matamoros
20. Soy Maraquero - Conjunto Matamoros

Average customer rating:

Buenos Hermanos Ibrahim Ferrer , and Ry Cooder Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cuba | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Son | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008VH7J Release Date: 2003-05-14

Tracks:

1. Boquinene
2. Buenos Hermanos
3. Musica Cubana
4. Guaguanco Callejero
5. Naufragio
6. Como El Arrullo De Palma
7. Perfume De Gardenias
8. Mil Congojas
9. Hay Que Entrarle A Palos A Ese
10. No Tiene Telarana
11. Fuiste Cruel
12. Boliviana
13. Oye El Consejo
14. El Bachaton

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track

Average customer rating: Beny More/Conjunto Matamoros- "Buenos Hermanos"

Buenos Hermanos Conjunto Matamoros & Beny More Manufacturer: Musica Latina ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cuba | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Latin Music | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00001SVNK Release Date: 1999-10-01

Tracks:

1. Dejame Gozar Mulata - Septeto Matamoros
2. Retrato - Septeto Matamoros
3. Conga del Pilar - Miguel Matamoros,
4. Buenos Hermanos - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
5. Ofrenda Criolla - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
6. Se Va a Morir - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
7. Cazuelita - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
8. Sere Dichoso - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
9. Penicilina - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
10. Que Sera Eso? - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
11. Me la Llevo - Conjunto Matamoros, Beny Mor
12. Oyeme - Conjunto Matamoros
13. Penas de Mi Alma - Conjunto Matamoros
14. Cosas de Ayer - Conjunto Matamoros
15. Camina y Ven Pa'La Loma - Conjunto Matamoros
16. Baila Mi Son - Conjunto Matamoros
17. Que Te Estan Mirando - Conjunto Matamoros
18. Mi Unica Boca - Conjunto Matamoros
19. Soy Maraquero - Conjunto Matamoros
20. Soy Maraquero - Conjunto Matamoros

Customer Reviews:

Beny More/Conjunto Matamoros- "Buenos Hermanos".......2000-05-07

Around 1942, while staying in Havana a young/rookie cuban singer, native of Santa Clara province in central Cuba,named Bartolome Maximiliano More, joined the famed Conjunto Matamoros as a singer. Bartolome had been singing with "Mozo"Borgella's Conjunto Cauto and was requested to fill in as a singer for Miguel Matamoros, due to a temporary strep throat condition which affected Matamoros'voice. Impressed by young Bartolome's singing style, Matamoros invited him to permanently join his group and Bartolome accepted. About 3 years later, Matamoros went on a tour to Mexico, taking his young singer Bartolome along. After the tour was over Bartolome informed Matamoros that he would be staying in Mexico to pursue a soloist singing career. It was then when Ciro, a fellow singer and prominent member of the Conjunto advised Bartolome that "he could stay, but he should go under a more "artistic" surname.Almost immediately the name "BENY" surfaced and from then on the name "BENY MORE" became internationally famous. The recordings on this CD are Beny's first ever. They were recorded for the RCA Victor label in Cuba from 1942 through 1945. They are a valuable collector's item.

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