Chan Chan

Buena Vista Social Club

Jun 20, 2022

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There’s a remarkable beauty in the enjoyment of songs sung in a foreign language. The often useless and overly-simplistic narrative journey of lyrics doesn’t get in the way. The melody, which in this case includes the rhythm of the singer’s indecipherable voice, is there to be felt, in my opinion, even more viscerally…

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