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Susana Baca Craig Street, a producer known for his spare, acoustically sensitive style, intelligently surrounds Baca's voice with light flourishes of percussion, bass and his usual bag of rhythmic tricks (cow bells, rain sticks, slide guitars). On songs like "Xanajari" and "Panalivio/Zancudito," the sound is supple and playful, yet like Ry Cooder's cosmic slide guitar treatments for the Buena Vista Social Club, feature unusual, but non-invasive instrumentation to create intrigue and mystery. Eco de Sombras is an intelligent, cross-cultural masterwork that cracks open a world of international possibility. - Todd Dominey
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Afro-Peruvian
singer Susana Baca is part of a nueva generacion of non-Western
female vocalists, including Cape Verde's queen of
the morna Cesaria Evora and the operatic Virginia Rodrigues of
Brazil, that are extending traditional folk songs about love and
history into a highly sophisticated, trans-global aural art form.
By building upon personal experience, musical sensibility, and
an ear for modern aesthetics, Baca and her fellow divas convincingly
evoke the lyrical depth of the blues flanked by south-of-the-equator
grooves. On Eco de Sombras, Baca's voice is restrained, cool, and
straightforward without excessive vibrato. Her smooth voice wavers,
sighs, and slides around the Peruvian melodies and rhythms supplied
by her own quartet along with additional Western elements contributed
by John Medeski (organ), guitarist Marc Ribot and David Byrne. 
