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...Castro's new album Samba Raro ranks as one of the finest solo debuts in South or North America in recent memory. De Castro, 28, makes beat-blending music. Drawing from bossa nova, soul, drum 'n' bass and other styles, he sways softly like Tom Jobim and breaks off street beats that would do Dr. Dre proud...
...these CDs are in Portuguese; Monte and Mercury are in most record stores. To find Coelho and De Castro, you will have to go to online resources like Amazon.com But it's worth crossing the Amazon River to hear music this good...
Like most Americans, the Squireses could not have made the trip much sooner, because a travel ban has been in effect since Castro took power in 1959. Technically, the ban is still in effect, but now there are legal ways around it, and Cuba has become the travel destination of choice for thousands of Americans--especially older Americans who have some memory of a pre-Castro Cuba. They are helped by a growing number of organizations that do all the legwork for them, procuring the proper visas and making flight and travel arrangements...
...again looking outside of the country's borders for inspiration, but grounding their work in the musical wealth of their native land. Daniela Mercury has the bouncy energy of American pop acts, but her work is anchored in the culture of Bahia and in serious artistic intent. Max de Castro, Patricia Coelho, the band Barao Vermelho, the group Nacao Zumbi and other young acts at the festival are adding hip-hop, trip-hop, and electronica to samba, bossa nova and Tropicalia. They are drawing from abroad but creating something Brazilian. After all, as Max de Castro points out, some...
...waive implementation of aspects of the legislation, but it was President Clinton who actually signed Helms-Burton into law. That was in early 1996, shortly after Fidel Castro's air force shot down two unarmed civilian aircraft flown by Miami-based exiles that had been flying propaganda missions into Cuban airspace - and Mr. Clinton saw Florida as one of the critical battleground states in that year's reelection campaign. The legislation will make life difficult for President Bush, too, of course, because it transformed the Cuba embargo from a presidential decree into an act of Congress. And it'll force...