Charanga Habanera

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David Calzado Y Su Charanga Habanera: El Rey De Los Charangueros

"The album, recorded for an Italian label, starts out with the tough "El Rey," rattles with all the energy of the great Cuban band’s highly specific sound, its timba brand. Part of the group’s individuality comes from the boy band aspect of its sound, with a bunch of young voices taking the lead vocals. As usual, the miracle of their arrangements, the stuttering rhythm section dropping accents in the least predictable places, is completely in order. And on El Rey De Los Charangueros, the recording captures some of the band’s wall-of-sound, the baseball bat to the forehead quality of the band. The unity of the sound (with the exception of the voices, which are way up in the mix) relegates all the instruments to the same importance; at times it’ll almost seem as if there are two bands and two ideas competing on each track, one, the band itself, hard, unstoppable, and two, the singers. Anyway, another slice of genius, hard, hard timba dance music from Havana; this might actually be the band’s best recording. Nothing like it; it’s historical.
Highly Recommended."

Kjelde: Descarga, Peter Watrous, 2007-08-27