- Category: Music » Latin Music » Cuban
- Format: CD Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
- Release Date: June 14, 2005
- Label: Tumi
- UPC: 5022627013121
- WAPI (Tower ID): 105959130
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #185768 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
- #5185 in Latin Music (See Top 100 Latin Music Bestsellers)
- #178 in Cuban (See Top 100 Cuban Bestsellers)
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Product Description
Product notePersonnel include: Yusa (vocals, guitar, bass guitar); Lenine, Kelvis, Haydee Milanes (vocals); Descemer Bueno (rap vocals, bass guitar); Elmer Ferrer (electric guitar); Lucia Huergo (flute, loops); Jesus Cruz (harmonica); Julio Padron (trumpet); Roberto Carcasses (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Omar Gonzalez (double bass); Elie Katz, Ruy Lopez-Nussa (drums); Adel Gonzalez (congas, pandeiro); Sexto Sentido (background vocals). Title NoteComposer: Yusa. Album DescriptionThink of Cuba, and the first thing that comes to mind is salsa. Great artists like Celia Cruz, Beny Mor‚, Orquesta Arag¢n, Machito, la Sonora Matancera, Mongo Santamaria and los Van Van. Great rhythms like son, cha-cha, guaracha, mambo, danz¢n and guaguanc¢ -- all the Afro-Cuban rhythms that the New Yorkers at Fania Records started calling salsa in the '70s. But on her second album, Breathe, Yusa reminds us that a female vocalist from Cuba doesn't necessarily have to be a salsera in the traditional Celia Cruz/Jacqueline Castellanos/Albita/Caridad Cuervo sense. What transpires on this risk-taking CD is best described as a combination of Spanish lyrics (with occasional detours into English or French), Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban sensibilities, R&B and a singer/songwriter aesthetic; Yusa gets some inspiration from Brazilian vocalists like Gal Costa, Rosa Passos and Maria Bethania (although she doesn't sing in Portuguese on this album), as well as from English-speaking singer/songwriters such as Joni Mitchell and Joan Armatrading. Yusa is definitely jazz-influenced, but not in a hard-swinging, aggressive way; she favors a jazzy subtlety on pensive, relaxed offerings like "El Fantasma del Marino," "La Espera," "Del Miedo" and "Una Vaca y Una Foca." The use of subtlety and restraint is something she has in common with Mitchell as well as Costa, Passos and Bethania -- and while "Descarga Track: Canda'o Cerra'o" has a strong Afro-Cuban flavor, Breathe owes just as much (if not more) to the Brazilian samba rhythm. Yusa, for the most part, is not a shouter or a belter, but she is funky in an understated way -- and she has no problem getting her emotional points across on this memorable sophomore effort. ~ Alex Henderson If You Enjoy "Breathe (Import) (CD)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Breathe (Import) (CD)" by Yusa (Artist)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Explore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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