Tribute to the Cuarteto Patria

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Tribute to the Cuarteto Patria
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  1. Audio CD: Release Date 2000-09-12
  2. Publisher: Higher Octave
  3. Artist: Eliades Ochoa
  4. Sales Rank in Music: #251490

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While poorly produced releases from fellow Buena Vista stars start to sound stale, guitarist Eliades Ochoa is soaring in quality with every new album. Though the folkish Cuban son that Ochoa plays isn't as vibrant, sassy, or romantic as that played by his counterparts, it's still gorgeous in form and reverent toward tradition. A Tribute to Cuarteto Patria finds the tres player crisply recorded and backed by an expert ensemble, playing tunes from Cuarteto Patria's repertoire, whose unique rural flavor grows more potent with each song. --Karen K. Hugg

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Unlike most of the other stars of Buena Vista Social Club, Eliades Ochoa wasn't whiling away his time in retirement when Ry Cooder sought him out. Throughout the 1990s, Ochoa was busy releasing albums of campesino music, the rural cowboy style of eastern Cuba whose potency owes little to the current nostalgic revival. The campesino son never really went out of date, though it's been eclipsed the past half-century by urban big band genres. Ochoa's combination of an incredibly affable voice and stinging tres solos makes for the most exciting guitar ensemble sound around, and the variety and bright arrangements of Tribute to the Cuarteto Patria leave his first post-Social Club release, Sublime Ilusion, in the dust. Highlights include "No Quiero Celos," which develops into a descarga jam session that fades out in the midst of wonderful trumpet work. "Yiri Yiri Bon" marries a memorable short chorus to a slow buildup of intensity in the manner of the Social Club's "El Cuatro de Tula," a song first heard on Ochoa's 1993 CD with Cuarteto Patria, A una Coqueta. "Casa de la Trova," a tribute to a legendary music club in Santiago de Cuba, begins on a pastoral note until Ochoa's fiery solos and an ecstatic chorus blow the lid right off the cloud cover. Take that, city dwellers! --Bob Tarte
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Average Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars haunted music, September 17, 2000
Truthseeker (New London, CT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tribute to the Cuarteto Patria (Audio CD)
How do you top albums like "The Lion Is Loose" and "Sublime Illusion?" For Eliades Ochoa, who has to be on the very shortest of short lists of the world's greatest guitarists (who's better?), you do it by digging even deeper into the rich soil of your roots: the sons of the Santiguerras. His "tribute" echoes with music generations old and yet as fresh as tomorrow. This album is different than any of his others: It has ghosts in it and a deep tug of ancient voices that brings it to another level. It is subtle, powerful, ineluctable. Buy this one. You won't be able to stop listening to it.


13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Son For You, October 12, 2000
Enrique Torres "Rico" (San Diegotitlan, Califas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tribute to the Cuarteto Patria (Audio CD)
Few artists leave me eagerly anticipating their next release. However Eliades Ochoa does just the opposite, I look for his music constantly. His newest release is available everywhere and with good reason, the man is incredible, a voice that is unique and dexterity on guitar that rivals the maestroes around the globe. He is without doubt one of the great, if not the greatest contemporary Cuban sonerero. Tribute to the CUARTETO PATRIA, the newest release by Ochoa is in a word, magnificent. The CD was recorded, as the title indicates to honor his roots and a band celebrating 60 years of music, Cuarteto Patria. The inspiration for the CD proves to the right thing as this CD is an instant classic. I've listened to it numerous times already and it is superb. Recorded in Spain and Cuba with many guest musicians, including his brother and several other Ochoa's, Faustino Oramas on vocals including some great percussion work by Joaquin Solorzano this CD is full of earthy roots music. The...Read more


7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars gotta have it, July 23, 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Tribute to the Cuarteto Patria (Audio CD)
Before I get into how flawlessly talented Ochoa is, let me say that the main editorial review for this album really bugged me 1. The artists from Buena Vista Social Club hardly sound "stale," it's more like: that CD is often the only cuban music cd many americans listen to... so, duh...newbies need to move on, discover more 2. Ry Cooder is, however, stale and pretty much on par with an "Indian (goods) Trader" in the Southwest -- profiting from the talent of another culture. Yeah right, until Ry Cooder came along, man, I had never heard of these famous, brilliant, talented artists who had long-st anding careers... uh huh. Give me a break. As for Ochoa -- he offers the some of the best cuban country boy music around, and this is a flawless album. One of my favorites. You won't be disappointed.

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