David Y Charanga Habanera Calzado - Caratula
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Artist: David Y Charanga Habanera CalzadoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-07-14
Music Label: Planet Records
Soundtracks:
- Tu No Eres Mejor Que Yo
- Hay Mujeres
- La Caratula
- Con La Misma Loca
- Gozando En La Habana
- La Chica Mas Bella
- La Mitad
- Juana Magdalena
- Hola
- La Olvidadiza
- Ni Un Oscar Ni Un Grammy
Music reviews of Caratula
Music Review: Excellent, but not Perfect
Rating: 4 Stars
With regard to the lyrics, the album cover tells it all. It's simply an album cover of Calzado showing off his new album with the same cover in infinite regress. Almost all the lyrics are about how great Calzado is and how he steals everybody's women. It gets old.
Also, the record gets a bit more monotonous than the other reviewers would have you believe. Most of the songs are very similar in tempo and rhythm. The Charanga Habanera has a very distinct flavor of Cuban Son/Reggae, and their players are masters, to the point where you think they are almost too tight. The rhythm is so perfectly "filled in" and balanced that it evokes a wall of percussive sound on these tracks that leaves very little breathing room or space. They are a pretty much perfect rhythm section, each sensing each others' vibe unfailingly and filling up each space until there is no space left and no redundancy. They execute tempo changes flawlessly (Calzado comes from Ritmo Oriental) clean bloques of startling complexity and subtlety, and can turn up the intensity to 11. As players, and as a group, they are flawless. But they lack stylistic range, as evinced by their similar-sounding timba tracks and their horrible, cheesy, stupid R&B ballad "Juana Magdalena".
That said, the songs are often stunning, and it is impressive that Calzado can still turn out quality material after 16+ years on the timba scene. This record does not rank with Charanga Habanera's best work (*Tremendo Delirio*, *Hey You Loca*) or as good as NG in their prime, but El Tosco fell off the map while Charanga just put out an excellent (though not quite great) record.
4 stars anyway? Let's say the good outweighs the bad by a longshot. I was tempted to give all 5 but the album has too many weaknesses for that.
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