release date: May 9, 2000
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: Jerry Boys, Nick Gold
label: World Circuit Records - nationality: Cuba
Track highlights: 1. "La sitiera" - 2. "He perdido contigo" - 3. "¿Dónde estabas tú?" - 4. "Mariposita de primavera" - 5. "Canta lo sentimental" - 8. "No me llores más"
Studio album release by Omara Portuondo that followed the famous Buena Vista Social Club album (1997), on which Omara performs with Ibrahim Ferrer. The music is cuban jazz, latin jazz, vocal jazz, or son cubano, a style that blends vocal jazz with afro-cuban rhythms and Spanish Portuguese folk-oriented music like fado, sometimes bolero. The music is wonderfully sentimental, and it's really wondrous how closely related the music is with that of the coladeira or morna as heard by Cesária Évora of Cape Verde in Africa, the 'musica peruana by Susana Baca of Peru, and fado by Cristina Branco of Portugal. All four of them are sublime vocalists and performers of music that combines latin jazz with African jazz and in that make strong use of traditional elements of (Spanish) Portuguese folk traditions.
