Word: sinuendo
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...stay out of Cuba at the 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...
...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 they also float over Africa, Mexico, Hawaii and Birdland, incorporating whatever style catches their ears...