Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. El Muñeco (¿Por qué no baila el muñeco?)
2. Ten Cuidao'
3. Si No Vas A Cocinar
4. Me Voy De Aqui
5. Alivia Mis Penas
6. M B
7. Mambo Valentin
8. Puchi
9. Amnesia
10. El Plumero
11. El Cangrejo
12. El Francotirador
13. Aca Y Alla
14. Pescador De Hombres

Disc 2:

1. The Making Of Guasabara

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50942 in Music
• Released on: 2008-11-11
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .27 pounds

Customer Reviews

Guasábara!
This is one of the most impressive recordings to hit the market in quite some time. To those of you that buy the hype that "salsa" is dead, think again. What you get is fourteen tracks of pure unadulterated "salsa" in a big band setting unlike any before. There's also a video documenting the making of the recording. This is truely a gem of a recording which I'm sure will captivate the listener and have you moving like never before.

Salsa with tuxedo
What's funny about the cover, is that the caricature that is supposed to be of Jose Lugo doesn't actually look like him.

I must admit that I am not really a big fan of this format, yet I cannot deny the high musicianship and attention to detail paid in this recording. The saxophones play flawlessly and take it into jazz territory at times. Some of the mambos, using trumpets, saxophones, and trombones are very good. But there is nothing original about it. This is a safe sound, more about re-creating the old sound of big bands that were prevalent in the fifties, though a bit modernized.

On the bonus tracks, it's another story. El Francotirador is an explosive track, about as close to a timba as I've heard any Puertorican salsa come to, and Alla y Aca is an almost nine minute long afro-rumba.

Salsa de la buena.
This is a great compilation of artist ranging from El "Cano" Estremeras to Gilberto Santarosa and many others. The arrangements and the brass section are excellent and the variety in one CD is amazing. It's Salsa with kind of a big band and a symphonic touch to it, very rich in melody and not a boring Salsa CD like the ones that has been coming out lately. Definitivamente no mas de lo mismo esto si que es un arroz con gandules, lechon, pasteles, unos cuantos "libers", un poco de arroz con leche y otro poco de ron cañita por el 'lau. Just buy it and you'll see... if you don't like it then I think that you have a major problem, because my cousin is a musician and he bores the hell out of me with salsa. It is salsa in the car, salsa in the computer, salsa videos, and salsa everywhere, and trust me it gets annoying from time to time, but I really liked this CD so much that I even bought it for him.