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Cuban Gold 4/ ¡Fuego Candela!(TT: Cuban Gold 4/ ¡Fire!)
From:
Latin Beat Magazine
| Date:
February 1, 1998| Author:
Tamargo, Luis
| COPYRIGHT 1998 Latin Beat Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
¡Fuego, Candela! - the incendiary aragonés refrain from the cha-onda years - properly describes what took place in Cuba, musically speaking, during the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of those developments, however, were created by the island's charanga musicians. Therefore, it is logical that the majority of this compilation is dominated by such charanga ensembles and their modified by-products, although it also covers various exponents of the conjunto format ...
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