Pancho Quinto
Touring the United States in 1998, Quinto was drawn to the vibrant Bay Area pan-Latin music scene, where he made common cause with rumberos Lazaro Rizo and Guillermo "El Negro" Triana. On Rumba Sin Fronteras, Quinto melds their superb voices with a battery of percussionists, including Miguel Miranda, Alexander N�poles, Octavio Rodr�guez and John Santos, together with producer-guitarist Greg Landau and Cuban pianist-composer Omar Sosa. Beyond his singular piano and keyboard work, the latter draws upon conservatory training as a percussionist on "Sosa en el pa�s de las maravillas" (Sosa in the land of marvels), wherein his years in the African-descent communities of coastal Ecuador's Esmeraldas region take the form of a transcendent marimba lead. But in the spirit of traditional Cuban rumba and carnaval street music, the compelling essence of this recording resides in the magnificent vocal harmonies, the sonorous choral interplay, and the deceptively understated polyrhythmic tapestry behind the singers. The result is one sublime session, confirmation of the vital ongoing relationship between sacred bat� and secular rumba percussive traditions that infuse popular derivations of Afro-Cuban music at home and abroad. - Michael Stone
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