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...precise moment the public was thirsting for more Cuban music. On the last day of the Clinton presidency--after Cooder had lobbied the State Department for two years--he was given a one-year exemption from the travel ban. The result is Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder's playful, dueling guitar album with Manuel Galban. "I knew that I wanted to work with the Buena Vista musicians again because, hey, many of them are geniuses," says Cooder. "But Manuel's the most surprising of them all. This kind of versatile talent I just hadn't figured...
...Cuban musicians stick close to the technical requirements of their discipline. "For whatever reason," says Cooder, "Galban has made adjustments during his life, and he's developed into a free player. He breaks away from patterns and styles in ways that other Cubans don't. That suits the electric guitar really well, and it also allowed us as collaborators to kind of meet in the middle, 'cause I'm not Cuban." Mambo Sinuendo has moments where it sounds like the sound track to a particularly cool Havana nightclub, but the two players achieve a dynamic so loose and easy that...
...other giant of Zimbabwean music - is in Binga, a rural area on Zimbabwe's western edge. Binga is as hot, parched and brown as Mutare is cool, well-watered and green. Tuku, as he's known to friends and fans, settles down on a dusty wooden bench with his guitar. All day, he has been clapping his big hands, flapping his long arms, and high-stepping around the bare concrete floor of a thatched rondavel-turned-makeshift studio - anything to fire up the choir of aids orphans with whom he is recording a charity album. Unused to the rigor...
...bottom, reforms. But where do values and moral fiber come from? For Zimbabweans, there's one refrain - sometimes phrased differently, but always the same: "We need God." One of Mtukudzi's best-known songs outside Zimbabwe is Hear Me, Lord (1994), a high-speed ride to heaven on a guitar riff. The rousing plea for divine intervention was covered by American singer Bonnie Raitt. Perhaps better than any other song in his catalog, its lyrics sum up how Zimbabweans, many devoutly Christian like Tuku, feel today: "Help me Lord, I'm feeling low." "Zimbabwe needs God," says Fungisai Zvakanapano...
...heavy, guitar-led “Dip the Tip” was bolstered by an elaborate drum solo from PK-1. “Carol of the Bells” cleverly worked the Christmas folk melody into a modern hip-hop framework...