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Title: Disappointing once again!
Review: For the record! Here is the breakdown of the royalties. Ray Cooder 50%; the Cuban goverment (the agent) 45%; the non-Cuban technical staff 5%; the performers 0%. Ray Cooder is only exploiting the Cuban performers for his own profit. This is common knowledge in Hollywood. There is no doubt a lot of feelings coming out of the performers, but that is all. They were never part of the top Cuban performers group in the Pre-Castro era. The quality and technics are poor; the duets are never in sinc. I have better recordings in my private Cuban collection. Try the just released "Cuba es musica", a 4 CD collection from Venezuela and Colombia. Ray Cooder's hawaiian sounding guitar does not belong in traditional Cuban music!
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