Cuba I Am Time (Cuba)
 From Amazon.co.uk: Cleverly packaged in a faux cigar box, this four-CD compilation of Cuban music is designed with the curious fan in mind. Each disc is dedicated to a genre: Cuban Invocations (Afro-Cuban religious music); Cantar en Cuba (songcraft); [... more]
CDN$68.99
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Chanchullo
From Amazon.com: After starting off in an anxious mood with long, somewhat aimless jams, Chanchullo settles nicely into the gorgeous chemistry that made Introducing... Rubén González so incredibly magnetic. On the opening track, the 81-year- [... more]
CDN$20.99
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The Mambo Kings
From Amazon.com: This period drama is hot, hot, hot. Stylish and sexy, it is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos, the story of two brothers who flee from Cuba in the early 1950s, heading [... more]
CDN$24.98
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Habana
From Amazon.com: This highly acclaimed 1997 musical meeting between rising American trumpet star, Roy Hargrove, and a collection of Cuban musicians including Chucho Valdes, founder of Irakere, is indeed a fine piece of music making. Given the politics of [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Karimbo (Mozambique)
From Amazon.com: The terrible Mozambique floods that occurred early in 2000 aroused the world's sympathy. One of the positive things that emerged from that catastrophe was this landmark recording of contemporary Mozambican music. The main rhythm that [... more]
CDN$22.99
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If I Had a...Songs of Pete See
From Amazon.com: Political militancy so rarely results in more than topical art; thus it's amazing how well Pete Seeger's talking blues, kiddie jingles, angry anthems, and fragile adages to peace have aged. This single-disc successor to Appleseed's [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Imaginary Cuba
From Amazon.com: Your taste for Bill Laswell's collection and reconstruction of various Cuban sounds on Imaginary Cuba depends entirely on your taste for the patented sonic stamp that the producer, bassist, and "mix translator" affixes to [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Cuban Counterpoint History Of
This is it! Cuban Music Central!: I've been introduced to Cuban music by BVSC, a few years ago. My wife is a professional musician and we love the rythms of Carribean and esp. Cuban music. Since them, I've had a chance to delve more into Cuban music, [... more]
CDN$16.99
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Classic Meets Cuba (Latin)
A successful mix of styles: Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Chopin and other highbrow icons get the royal Latin dance treatment... I was skeptical, to say the least, when I popped this one into my stereo, but when it started to play, my doubts were dispelled. Both [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Buena Vista Social Club (Full Screen)
From Amazon.co.uk: In 1996, composer, producer, and guitar legend Ry Cooder entered Egrem Studios in Havana with the forgotten greats of Cuban music, many of them in their 60s and 70s, some of them long since retired. The resulting album, Buena Vista [... more]
CDN$14.99
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Salsa: Latin Pop Music in the
From Amazon.com: This 1979 documentary profiles the hot Afro-Latin dance music called salsa, a zesty marriage of North American jazz, Puerto Rican bomba/plena, and Cuban mambo, rumba, danzon, and cha-cha-cha rhythms. The music was born in New York in the [... more]
CDN$26.99
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Hollow Bamboo
From Amazon.com: When Ry Cooder isn't getting down with the aged Cuban musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club, he's getting serene with Indian flutists and vina players. As he did with the well-known A Meeting by the River with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, [... more]
CDN$17.99
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