Cuban Canzone
Estrellas de Cuba
1995

1-Un Buco Nella Sabbia – A. Testa- P. Soffici
2-In Un Fiore – Donida Mogol
3-Sinno’ Me Moro – Gianneti-Germi Rustichelli
4-Go-Kart Twist – -Salce- Morricone
5-Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu – – Modugno-Migliacci-
6-Al di la – -L.C.Donida-G.Rapetti-
7-Piove… – – Modugno-Verde-
8-Una Lacrima Sul Viso – -Lunero- Mogol-
9-Romantica – -R. Rascel-D.Verde-
10-Come Prima – S. Taccani-V.Die Paola-M.Panzeri-
11-Casa Bianca – Mariano-Donbacky
12-Non Ho L’età – -Panzeri Nisa-

From the 1950s into the early 1960s, canzone ruled the world. It’s interesting that this overlaps exactly with the peak of Italian cinema.

There were several wonderfully beautiful songs. At just that time, I was in the upper grades of elementary school and in junior high, and the songs of Gigliola Cinquetti, Bobby Solo, and Wilma Goich that came from the radio — I listened to them with pleasure. Between Presley and the Beatles and the Stones, those songs entertained me, like rare and beautiful trees that bloom for only a very short while. This is an album in which I had José Luis Cortés arrange that kind of song in a Cuban style, and had various singers sing them.

I think it’s best on a refreshing holiday, listening together with good pasta and salad and espresso.

Ryu Murakami

singers
Virginia Quesada
Rail Ricardo Santoys del Busto
Luis Telles
Lee Angel Rodriguez Lechuga
Armando Fernandez Gonzales
Mariano Pérez Mena

musicians
José Luis Cortés (Director General, Director Musical, Arregements & Flute)
Migeul Angel de Armas (Keyboard)
Rodolfo Argudin (Piano)
Feliciano Arango (Bass)
Calixto Oviedo (Drums)
Elpidio Chapotín (Trompeta)
José Miguel Crego “El Greco” (Trompeta/Filscorno y Trombón de pistones)
Rolando Feliciano Pérez (Saxfón Alto)
Rafael Miguel Jenkes “Jimmy”(Saxfón Tenor)
Pablo Cortés (Bongó)
Humberto Sosa (Conga)
Guillermo Amores (Guiro)

Produced By: Ryu Murakami
Sound produced By: José Luis Cortés
Recorded & Mixed By: Ramón Alom, Rolando Santos,  Sinji Nishikubo (Music Inn)
Mastering Engineer: Tomie Kato (Sony Records)
Art Direction & Design: Tomoaki Sakai (Blancchic)
Illastration: Tadasu Arita
Photograph:
Translated By: Yukiko Yoshino except M7
Toshikazu Mori (BABEL INTERNATIONAL)
Production Service: Kazue Okuma Promortion Staff: Shoji Koyama, Mutumi Mastumoto
Supervisor: Ikuo Nabeta, Tamio Suzuki (Sony Records)
Special Thanks To: Caridad Diez, Narciso Hernández, Genichi Yamamoto (Shueisha), Haruhiko Kono