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Title: a guitarist, not a singer
Review: This could so easily have been a five-star review. The fact is, however, that while instrumentally this recording is just as good as others have said, Eliades Ochoa handles lead vocals throughout; and, despite the talk of "his wonderfully ripe voice", he's just not a singer. His voice would be good enough to demonstrate what he was after to a real singer, but that's about it. Or again, the tone is astringent enough to add some good bite alongside somebody who's a lot more mellifluous, but this is not a voice that most people would want to hear out in front, which is where it is. (Cf, in a very different genre, Hatfield and the North.) And all too often, it's out of tune.When I listen to this CD, I think of the title of a certain Zappa instrumental album ("Shut up 'n play yer guitar"). And then I quickly take off the CD and put on a disc by Antonio Machin or somebody else.
