Unrest Rei Harakami

This CD is the seventh and final issue of the series 'Esto es Cuba' extra 1, dedicated to the popular Cuban music. The CD collects 12 tracks of classic and modern 'habaneras', performed with a very remarkable and exquisite sensitivity. Topics contained in the register as the legendary 'La paloma', with a splendid string instrumental accompaniment; the classics 'La bella Lola' and 'Torrevieja'; adapted arrangements as habanera style as' La golondrina', the very actual 'Habaneras Cadiz' and so on. Here is a dignified music production on 'habaneras' to enjoy.

By this point Henry Cow consisted of guitarist Fred Frith, drummer Chris Cutler, bassist John Greaves, keyboardist Tim Hodgkinson, and, of particular importance to the band's sound at this point, bassoonist Lindsay Cooper. As is so often the case with avant-garde rock & roll, it's the composed pieces that work best, and the fact that Frith is responsible for the majority of them is significant. "Bittern Storm Over Ulm" is an absolutely brilliant demolition of the Yardbirds' "Got to Hurry," while the brief but lovely "Solemn Music" unfolds in a stately manner with atonal but pretty counterpoint between Frith and Cooper. The improvised material succeeds in a more spotty way. "Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon" demonstrates how fine the line can be between bracing free atonality and mindless cacophony…

Megumi Hayashibara (林原 めぐみ, born March 30, 1967) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, radio personality, and lyricist from Tokyo. Over the course of a twenty year career, she has become one of Japan's most popular seiyuu having over 236 roles credited to her name, and she has won Animage's most popular seiyuu award twelve times.