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Updated 23 April

Introduction

Here I hope you'll find some very interesting CDs. What you might find here are CDs by independent labels. I'd like to assist you in widening your aural experiences and I hope that these CDs will whet your appetite. Please check back frequently for added content. Thanks.

Also, I have finally begun to add Real Audio files for some of the CDs. As time permits, more sounds will be added and changed frequently to give you a good idea of the musical quality in these CDs. Please visit real.com for the Real Audio Player.



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Rhythm and Smoke Cover


The original cover artwork by famed artist Leroy Neiman.

RHYTHM and SMOKE
The Cuba Sessions


This new CD, released September 22, 1998, is a compilation of wonderful music from Cuba. Hot salsa Cubana, beautiful melodic ballads, and cutting edge vocal tracks are featured throughout. For much more information and to listen to Real Audio files, just click here. Thanks!



Ordering Information

This CD is not yet listed on the order form. You can order it by mail with a check or money order.
Cost is US$11.00 plus $3.00 s&h in the United States, US$11.00 plus US$7.00 s&h International.
Please send check or money order to:

Chuck Silverman
POB 572962
Tarzana, California
91357-2962
USA
Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. (hopefully much less!)

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CUBAMANIA!
CD recorded in Havana, Cuba

featuring:

13 Tracks

Klimax
click here for "Numero Cien"
by Klimax

Bamboleo
Arte Mixto
Angel Bonne
and others

Special Price: $12.00 plus S&H






Marlin R.

This is a new CD by some good friends in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Marlin Ramazzini and Fito Garcia. The CD was produced by my good frind Jose M. Sanchez, and features the talented Marlin on vocals. Also featured are Jose on timbales and drums, Pancho Amat, the great Cuban tresero, my good friend Lali on percussion, and on bass Fito Garcia and my good friend Chispa from La Habana, Cuba. Each cut on this CD swings with a real Cuban flavor. Marlin's vocals are sultry and sweet. Sabrosa!!
If you are interested in ordering this wonderful CD, please email me.


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Cuarto Espacio

Cuarto Espacio

CD - $14.98

Cuarto Espacio are four extravagantly talented Cuban virtuosos, representing modern Cuban jazz at its most brilliant. This CD features Jimmy Branly, who at 24 is already considered to be one of Cuba's greatest drummers. Together with Omar Hernandez (bass), Ernan-Lopez Nussa (piano) and Fernando Calveiro (guitar), Cuarto Espacio has reinvented what is called fusion and assigned it new dimensions. Order this essential CD here.

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Lazaro Ros

Lazaro Ros

CD - $14.98

Lazaro Ros is Cuba's foremost akpwon, singer of the ceremonial songs from the Afro-Cuban tradition which invoke the orishas, deities from the Yoruban pantheon. As a founder of Cuba's famed Conjunto Folklorico Nacional and great innovator and teacher, Lazaro is one of Cuba's national treasures and a principal preserver of African ways on the island of Cuba.

The rhythms and melodies of this sacred tradition, brought from Africa and practiced in Cuba to this day, are present in all forms of Latin popular music and jazz. Here they are performed in their purest and most profound form by Olorun, Lazaro's group of drummers and singers from his hometown of Guanabacoa, a group of young people whom the master has cultivated and taught in the interest of preserving the tradition of his ancestors. Be part of this tradition and order the CD now.

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