Recorded in the 90's by musicians associated with the titular Social Club, this is a grand tour of music hot in Cuba in the 40's and 50's, when the club was in full swing.
The songs span a variety of tempos and styles, but the overall feel is one of bristling, hitched, clip-clopped Latin rhythms, sparkling with horns, rippling with acoustic guitars, and drenched in throaty, powerful vocals. It is a transportation to any number of times and places; it could be a night coruscating with city lights or a breezy day of splintering sun, but the music is fraught with place, relaxing and exciting and inviting and strange 4/5
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