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Cha Cha Cha- Orquesta America with Felix Reyna & R.Egues

luis de quesada | jamaica, new york United States | 05/11/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Although this is a good album, recorded recently, it seems as though the same 5 or 6 songs are always included in recording dates of musicians in Cuba, gathering for the ocassion and calling themselves "Orquesta America". Among some of these "same old songs" are "La Engan~adora", "Rico Vacilon", "El Tunel", "La Basura", "Los Marcianos" and now, due to former Orquesta Aragon flautist Richard Egues' involvement in the "new" Orquesta America,another "recycled" version of "El Bodeguero" has been added to a "same old-recycled" repertoire. There is so much in the original Orquesta America's repertoire that could be brought back. Whatever happened to "Alegre Navidad", "Rival", "Que Buenas Son", "Anna/El Negro Zumbon", "Me Lo Dijo Adela", "Nada Para Ti", "Liceo de Madruga", "El Zapatero", "Angoa", El Cha Cha Cha De Los Carin~osos", "Mi Jeva", "La Verde Palma Real", "Cha Cha Cha Chabela", "Se Buena Conmigo", etc. etc. There is a lot more where those came from, but it seems they choose not to remember. Egues and of all people, Felix Reyna, a prominent member of the original Orquesta America de Ninon Mondejar, could've done much, much better!"