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Winner of the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album, this sublime collaboration with Cuban guitar great Manuel Galbán was issued on vinyl for a blink of the eye and was quickly out of print. Now it's again available on vinyl.

Recorded and mixed by Jerry Boys (Buena Vista Social Club (etc.) at Egrem Studio, Havana and featuring Jim Keltner and Joachim Cooder on drums and percussion plus of course an all-star Cuban cast, the music harkens back to the mid-1950's era of the mambo and cha-cha-cha crazes that swept America. Galbán was the guitarist/arranger for the Havana-based doo-wop quartet Los Zafiros (World Circuit issued in 1999 a fantastic compilation on CD that should also be made available on vinyl!).

While the original release of this album was anonymously mastered for vinyl, this new issue was cut at Abbey Road and pressed at Record Industry in The Netherlands on two 140 gram LPs. A "must have" two LP set!