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Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban — La Luna en Tu Mirada
Album: Mambo Sinuendo
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Released: 2003
Length: 4:07
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Weird, but I keep getting snips of Bowie, "Wild Is The Wind", from Station to Station...
Posted 1 week ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
He's simply great 
Posted 1 month ago by grandemarch    [ Reply ]
 LaurieinTucson wrote:

need to move this up in the rotation




YES!!
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
EXCELLENT!!   Thanx RP!   
Posted 2 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Does this sound like it may have featured in a 1960s film noir? Like, an optimistic moment of first witnessing unfettered beauty, only to be later revealed its monstrous underbelly...?!
Posted 2 years ago by xc.farmer.antoine486    [ Reply ]
From which Quinten Tarantino flick?
Posted 3 years ago by TheKing2    [ Reply ]
Exc ªlente !!
Posted 3 years ago by tolomiro52    [ Reply ]
Yet another album I purchased thanks to Radio Paradise play.  You're right, its great
 virwill7 wrote:
Check out the entire record. Top shelf, all the way through.
 

Posted 3 years ago by obankenobi    [ Reply ]
could be from breaking bad
Posted 4 years ago by carter_usm    [ Reply ]
He plays the guitar so effortlessly. And you can swear you hear the guitar saying things... 
Posted 4 years ago by jahgirl8    [ Reply ]
Check out the entire record. Top shelf, all the way through.
Posted 5 years ago by virwill7    [ Reply ]
This entire album is simply wonderful. 
Posted 5 years ago by ChrisTheWebGuy    [ Reply ]
 LaurieinTucson wrote:
need to move this up in the rotation

 
delightful ... yes, totally agree!
Posted 6 years ago by bobcanna1    [ Reply ]
need to move this up in the rotation
Posted 7 years ago by LaurieinTucson    [ Reply ]
Sublime.
Posted 8 years ago by yofitofu    [ Reply ]
 misterbearbaby wrote:
 hd220 wrote:
After the Buena Vista days, Ry Cooder got back together with Manuel Galban from those sessions.  Manuel was a member of Los Zafiros, a pre-revolution doh wop band who recorded the original version of this song.  This is a great under rated CD with more many more gems on it including a Dean Martin and Doris Day classic "Secret Love". A very different take on Cuban music yet retaining a strong Cuban feel.  This was recorded as well as Buena Vista at the Egram studios on Obispo street in Havana.  Listen to Ry and Manuel's guitars conversing back and forth throughout this CD.  I have an extensive and eclectic (much like RP) vinyl and CD collection and this is in my top 10-20 albums/CDs.  A 10 for me, only because I can't vote higher.


Cooder has an amazing ability to flow beautifully in duet scenarios, check out  A Meeting By The River .

 
A meeting by the river is sublime - One of my favourite albums. 
Posted 8 years ago by sidsiva737    [ Reply ]
Wonderful tune, especially now when heavy rain keeps pounding onto the roof. 
Posted 8 years ago by malamucha    [ Reply ]
Awesome 
Posted 8 years ago by Full3service    [ Reply ]
just beautiful
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 cShaggy wrote:
..sounds like Plant solo..what was that tune?.."driving me on / driving me down the road"..
 
big log, though I don't really hear the resemblance
Posted 9 years ago by SuperWeh    [ Reply ]
 calypsus_1 wrote:

Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - "Chain Gang" Live (1987)  

Band: Ry Cooder: guitar, vox - Jim Keltner: drums - Van Dyke Parks: keys - Jorge Calderon: bass - Flaco Jimenez: accordion - Miguel Cruiz: percussion - Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone
Singers: Bobby King: tenor - Terry Evans: baritone - Arnold McCuller: tenor - Willie Green Jr: bass

 
Wow. What a rendition.
Posted 9 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Very romantic!!{#Daisy}
Posted 10 years ago by mojcamojca77    [ Reply ]
..sounds like Plant solo..what was that tune?.."driving me on / driving me down the road"..
Posted 11 years ago by cShaggy    [ Reply ]
 hd220 wrote:
After the Buena Vista days, Ry Cooder got back together with Manuel Galban from those sessions.  Manuel was a member of Los Zafiros, a pre-revolution doh wop band who recorded the original version of this song.  This is a great under rated CD with more many more gems on it including a Dean Martin and Doris Day classic "Secret Love". A very different take on Cuban music yet retaining a strong Cuban feel.  This was recorded as well as Buena Vista at the Egram studios on Obispo street in Havana.  Listen to Ry and Manuel's guitars conversing back and forth throughout this CD.  I have an extensive and eclectic (much like RP) vinyl and CD collection and this is in my top 10-20 albums/CDs.  A 10 for me, only because I can't vote higher.


Cooder has an amazing ability to flow beautifully in duet scenarios, check out  A Meeting By The River .
Posted 11 years ago by misterbearbaby    [ Reply ]
After the Buena Vista days, Ry Cooder got back together with Manuel Galban from those sessions.  Manuel was a member of Los Zafiros, a pre-revolution doh wop band who recorded the original version of this song.  This is a great under rated CD with more many more gems on it including a Dean Martin and Doris Day classic "Secret Love". A very different take on Cuban music yet retaining a strong Cuban feel.  This was recorded as well as Buena Vista at the Egram studios on Obispo street in Havana.  Listen to Ry and Manuel's guitars conversing back and forth throughout this CD.  I have an extensive and eclectic (much like RP) vinyl and CD collection and this is in my top 10-20 albums/CDs.  A 10 for me, only because I can't vote higher.
Posted 11 years ago by hd220    [ Reply ]
Definitely evocative of a time of slab-steel automobiles, sinuous grooves, and a brace of stiff cocktails thrown past the teeth by Five-Thirty...
Posted 12 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
I always dug the Caddy fins. Yes, they signaled all sorts of cultural dysfunction...but they were so cool.
Posted 12 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
A sultry 9. I dig.
Posted 13 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
Ry Cooder keeps trying and changing it up.   Nice to se old guy not falling in faded glory rut... It's also very nice... good music
Posted 13 years ago by AndyJ    [ Reply ]
Bought the album some time ago - it does not leave any of the gadgetology devices I have   ;-)
Posted 13 years ago by wenatchee    [ Reply ]
Can't decide if its a 6 or a 10...so settled on an 8.
Posted 14 years ago by scott_bruce    [ Reply ]
SHould see surfers in a sunset for this one...
Posted 14 years ago by sailorgirl    [ Reply ]

Ry Cooder, Brussels 2009  By ShakeFrog
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Posted 14 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
Roy Buchannan writhes in easy listening hell every time this tune plays.
Posted 14 years ago by MinMan    [ Reply ]
Extra points for the '59 Caddy on the cover...
Posted 14 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]

Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - "Chain Gang" Live (1987)  

Band: Ry Cooder: guitar, vox - Jim Keltner: drums - Van Dyke Parks: keys - Jorge Calderon: bass - Flaco Jimenez: accordion - Miguel Cruiz: percussion - Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone
Singers: Bobby King: tenor - Terry Evans: baritone - Arnold McCuller: tenor - Willie Green Jr: bass
Posted 14 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
{#Curtain}

¡Que romántico!
Posted 15 years ago by ndg    [ Reply ]
always liked ry. AND chit he's an LA boy. but years and years ago.

Swell cubie guy this Manuel. Have a taco on me! Bend it dude!

8 is right. Maybe 8.1 
Posted 15 years ago by paulpaar    [ Reply ]
1959 was the last year that American cars were allowed to be imported into Cuba. If you visit Havana today, I am told you will see many 1950s autos, some them in immaculate condition, on the streets.

Posted 15 years ago by mickeycanuk    [ Reply ]
 d00kie wrote:
Anyone know exactly what make/model of car the tail lights belong to on the cover art?
 

Yes, you're looking at an artist rendering of the classic fin and dual tail lights of a 1959 Cadillac.


Posted 15 years ago by logjump    [ Reply ]
Anyone know exactly what make/model of car the tail lights belong to on the cover art?
Posted 15 years ago by d00kie    [ Reply ]
Umm. Slow dance at the prom. (That's not necessarily a criticism. I'm enjoying it.)
Posted 15 years ago by FlatCat    [ Reply ]
A slow sad lament in an old New Mexico frontier town.. this is beautiful.
Posted 15 years ago by Ntropy    [ Reply ]
only 3 comments?  i kinda like the sound of the guitar here..
Posted 15 years ago by rockbuoy    [ Reply ]
smooth.....................{#Cool}
Posted 15 years ago by jkhandy    [ Reply ]
Bravo!!!!!!! great song, Ry has been amazing me for years
Posted 15 years ago by stkman    [ Reply ]

 

Magnificent performance of the guitarists in this album, impresses me the singular style of Manuel Galvan plaing the guitar Fender Telecaster with heavy gauge strings, the melodic runs and chordal patterns with influences of traditional Cuban music;  La Luna en Tu Mirada, written by composer cuban Luis Chanivecky;  in the accomplishment of this album they had still collaborated a long list of musicians, between which if they find some elements of the band Buena Vista Social Club, as Orlando “Cachaíto” López, on bass, and the percussionists include Jim Keltner, Cooder's son, Joachim Cooder and the conga master Miguel Angá Díaz, beyond the proper Ry Cooder on organ, guitar, electric bass, steel guitar, piano, producer, vibraphone, tres.

** 9  **




Posted 16 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]