Mambo Sinuendo Explained

Mambo Sinuendo
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Manuel Galban and Ry Cooder
Cover:	Mambo_Sinuendo.jpg
Released:	January 28, 2003
Label:	Nonesuch
Producer:	Ry Cooder
Prev Title:	The End of Violence
Prev Year:	1997
Next Title:	Chávez Ravine
Next Year:	2005

Mambo Sinuendo is a studio album released by Cuban performer Manuel Galbán and producer Ry Cooder. The album was the first number-one album in the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart for Galbán and the second for Cooder (after Buena Vista Social Club in 1998), and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 46th Grammy Awards.^[1]

Album history

About the recording of this album, Cooder notes that "Galbán and I felt that there was a sound that had not been explored in a Cuban electric-guitar band that could re-interpret the atmosphere of the 1950s with beauty, agility, and simplicity. We decided on two electrics, two drum sets, congas and bass: a sexteto that could swing like a big band and penetrate the mysteries of the classic tunes. This music is powerful, lyrical, and funny; what more could you ask? Mambo Sinuendo is Cuban soul and high-performance."

Track listing

This information from Billboard.com.^[2]

1. "Drume Negrita" (Ernesto Grenet) — 5:00
2. "Monte Adentro" (Arsenio Rodríguez) — 2:53
3. "Los Twangueros" (Manuel Galbán, Ry Cooder) — 4:42
4. "Patricia" (Pérez Prado) — 3:29
5. "Caballo Viejo" (Simón Díaz) — 3:51
6. "Mambo Sinuendo" (Manuel Galbán, Ry Cooder, Joachim Cooder) — 2:31
7. "Bodas de Oro" (Electo Rosell "Chepin") — 4:40
8. "Échale Salsita" (Ignacio Piñeiro) — 4:27
9. "La Luna en Tu Mirada" (Luis Chanivecky) — 4:13
10. "Secret Love" (Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain) — 5:49
11. "Bolero Sonámbulo" (Manuel Galbán, Ry Cooder) — 4:31
12. "María la O" (Ernesto Lecuona) — 4:19

Personnel

This information from Allmusic.^[3]

• Manuel Galbán — Guitar
• Ry Cooder — Organ, guitar, electric bass, steel guitar, piano, producer, vibraphone, tres
• Orlando "Cachaito" López — Bass
• Jim Keltner — Drums
• Joachim Cooder — drums
• Miguel "Angá" Díaz — Conga
• Yaure Muniz — Trumpet
• Herb Alpert — Trumpet
• Carla Commagere — vocals
• Juliette Commagere — Vocals
• Demetrio Muniz — Musical Director
• Jerry Boys — Engineer, mastering, mixing
• Nick Gold — Executive in Charge of Music
• Jimmy Hoyson — Assistant engineer
• Simon Burwell — Assistant engineer
• Isel Martinez Rodriguez — Assistant engineer
• Tom Leader — Mastering
• Sara Daoud — Production coordination
• Zita M. "Toti" Morriña — Production coordination
• Rail Jon Rogut — Digital editing
• Doyle Partners — Design

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r622788/charts-awards/grammy|pure_url=yes}} Mambo Sinuendo]. Allmusic.com. September 16, 2008. March 25, 2004. National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
2. Web site: Mambo Sinuendo. Billboard.com. September 16, 2008. January 28, 2003. Billboard.com. November 21, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211121100153/https://www.billboard.com/artist/ry-cooder/chart-history/. dead.
3. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r622788/credits|pure_url=yes}} Mambo Sinuendo ]. Allmusic.com . February 28, 2003. September 16, 2009. Mambo Sinuendo - Liner notes.
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5. Web site: Jaaroverzichten 2003. Ultratop. October 18, 2020.