Thursday, March 24, 2005  

Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos
"Postizos"
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans)
(Atlantic, 1998)

A few weeks ago, before work and allergies got the better of me, I was at the Chi-Cha Lounge in D.C. I had a Red Stripe in one hand, a Maker's in the other, and a plate of Peruvian grub staring me in the mug. What could be better? Then a song came on that I recognized but couldn't place; it sounded like Konono No. 1 in a descarga. I asked the waitress who it was, and she came back with "Mark Ribbit."

Hot damn everybody have a good time, Marc Reebo!

I hadn't listened to his first (and best) Cubanos Postizos CD in a long time, and it floored me how much the tune "Postizos" sounds like Konono stranded in Fidelville, with Ribot's pinched-up guitar disortion and all that clanky percussion. (And no, I hadn't even started in on my two-fisted beverage/s yet when I thought of the connection.)

This is a great, great CD, and worth every cent of the $4.99 you can buy it for used. The second Cubanos Postizos CD, 2000's Muy Divertido, is also a fine purchase, and you can buy a download of Ribot & Co's live performance from last year's Bonnaroo Festival.

Go to MarcRibot.com for info on tours & other recordings, but it doesn't look like the Cubano Postizos are doing either anytime soon---though Ribot is all over the place with other projects.

On a different, itchy, snot-headed note, Buddha bless Allegra-D.

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