Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo

Stereophile Magazine's Record Of The Month, March 2003
Mastered by Bernie Grundman

"Cooder's historic odyssey comes to a climax with the most extraordinary album he's recorded in Cuba...a glistening set of small-combo instruments." - San Francisco Chronicle

"An album of jukebox-length tunes...that create a time-warped neverland where unhurried melodies hover above swaying Cuban rhythms, as the two guitar masters trade slides and twangs with a droll sense of romance." - The New York Times

On the musical trip that is Mambo Sinuendo, twin electric guitars penetrate the cool mysteries of mambo-jazz and harken back to a point in the late '50s when Cuban popular music began to hint at a fusion of American pop-jazz and futuristic creations of musicians such as Perez Prado, who were leading Cuban music away from traditionalism.

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