Lo Mejor De La Vida Digital MP3 Album

Lo Mejor De La Vida Digital MP3 AlbumRecorded in celebration of Compay Segundos 90th birthday, Lo Mejor de la Vida (The Best in Life) brings together some of Cubas most notable musicians and many personal friends to pay homage to one of the living legends of Cuban music: Segundo is joined by Silvio Rodrguez, Omara Portuondo, Po Leyva, Raimundo Amador, Martirio, and others. Together they breathe new life into a number of Segundos compositions, along with new interpretations of classic

relatively new to her repertoire

two duets sung with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis of Resistance Revival Chorus

and ambient tracks for "Help Me Somebody" and "A Secret Life" not available on CD or MP3

close-harmony songs that tap into an ageless essence of traditional ballads and lullabies as they contemplate companionship

where he and longtime cohort Noah Georgeson produced the album together

on two CDs

The Guardian says it's a "triumph

the Beethoven beautifully shaped and flexible

” He commissioned Ukrainian composer Leonid Desyatnikov’s title piece and pairs it with Alexander Raskatov’s arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s 12-part The Seasons

" Rob Moose of yMusic adds: "It was as much a thrill to hear songs emerge organically over sections of intricate chamber music as it was satisfying to strip songs of the instrument that created them in order to craft new connective tissue

society and history

playing the melody on an old German analogue synthesizer