My Secret Radio

Product Review

Three-time Grammy-nominated Cuban music group Tiempo Libre returns to its roots with My Secret Radio, the new album featuring their signature timba music an intense, sophisticated mix of Latin jazz and danceable Afro-Cuban rhythms. My Secret Radio conjures the seven musicians' teenage years in Havana when they secretly listened to forbidden American music and dreamed of a life where they could be free to play their music and live their lives the way they wanted. Of special note is the reunion of Tiempo Libre's founder and musical director, Jorge Gómez, with the legendary Cuban songstress Albita for the unforgettable ballad, "Como Hace Anos."

Title Tracks for My Secret Radio

1. Lo Mio Primero (My Turn)
2. San Antonio
3. Como Hace AÃƒÂ±os (Just Like Years Ago)
4. Prende La Radio (Turn on the Radio)
5. Mi Gente (My People)
6. Aceite (Oil)
7. MecÃƒÂ¡nica (More is Less)
8. Mujer de Fuego (She's on Fire)
9. Ahora Te Quieres Ir (And Now You Want to Go)
10. After the Love is Gone
11. Mi Antena (My Antenna)

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

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Tiempo Libre: Making New Airwaves With 'My Secret Radio', May 3, 2011

Porter Anderson (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Secret Radio (Audio CD)

Turn on "My Secret Radio," and don't sit down. Spiky and sassy, roiling with the hand-over-fist keyboards of bandleader Jorge Gómez, and pushed by Joaquin Diaz's pan suave-sweet vocals, Tiempo Libre proves, once again, the evolving power of what Gómez calls "timba grown on American soil."

There may be no better way to understand the Cuban diaspora than through the rambunctious rhythms and "throw yourself into your life!" harmonies of Gómez and his buddy Cuban expats, who reassembled in Miami to form the three-time Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre after making their separate escapes from Castro's Cuba. And once more, the guys are hitting their audiences with as much meaning as music.

These men, as welcoming and personable as their music is moving, can recall boyhood nights spent on hot Havana rooftops using coat-hanger wire to pull in outlawed US radio broadcasts. Hence the album-closing conga kicker "Mi Antenna," with which drummer Armando...Read more

You'll want to dance, November 4, 2011

C. Gibbons (Lincoln, NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Secret Radio (Audio CD)

I had a chance to see Tiempo Libre perform live, and this album captures their energy and suavity perfectly. It's a lot of fun--you'll want to dance!

Muy bien!, May 16, 2011

wfpkgrl - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Secret Radio (Audio CD)

Me gusta esta música mucho!

Just goes to show that the best Cuban music today is being created outside of Cuba!