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Eliades Ochoa - A la Casa de la Trova

Eliades Ochoa

A la Casa de la Trova


To the average North American listener, the distinctions between trova, sones, guarachas, and guajiras may not be worth drawing. Apparently Eliades Ochoa -- who was previously featured on the wildly popular Buena Vista Social Club album -- is a master of all these Cuban pop music genres, and this collection touches on all of them. To those who have trouble hearing the differences between them, one might suggest the Bugs Bunny approach: don't ask questions, just have fun. The fact is that only connoisseurs of Cuban music will understand what makes "No Quiero Celos Contigo" stylistically different from "Las Mujeres de Mayarí," but you'd have to have ears of cement and steel pins in your hips n...

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