Havana Midnight [IMPORT]

, Bob Neuwirth

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2002)
• Original Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Diesel Motor
• ASIN: B000033K0I
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #714,805 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Bob Neuwirth's long and fitful career is built around ragged but soulful folk-based recordings that are marked by an ingrained extemporaneous spirit. Neuwirth, after all, is a dyed-in-the-wool troubadour who's more interested in capturing the moment than artfully shaping his songs. Which makes Havana Midnight so unexpected and rewarding. Here the roughhewn folkie finds himself keeping company with Cuban composer-arranger Jose Maria Vitier, who lends Neuwirth's wistful, weary tunes a subtly ornate stateliness and rhythmic underpinning. The beauty of Havana Midnight is that Neuwirth's music is given a grace and elegance that on the surface ought to be constricting, but instead is entirely liberating. --Steven Stolder

Product Description
UK edition of 2000 album. A sly, understated journey that finds the veteran rock/folk/blues tunesmith pairing his weathered voice & incisive lyrics with the arrangements & melodies of Cuban composer/arranger Jose Maria Vitier. The album is a more accessible stepping stone into straight Cuban music than even Buena Vista Social Club.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?, October 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Havana Midnight (Audio CD)

What a welcome piece of music is Havana Midnight. Bob Neuwirth's lyrics are clear and without excess. His vocals are intimate and evocative, some a little wistful. We can feel his arm around our shoulder as he tells his story. That Neuwrith's songs recline on Jose Maria Vitier's music is an unexected delight blending exoctic Latin melodies with some of this classic American artist's best work.
Never has there been a more welcome contrast to the uninvited, assualt that has become today's music. I want more.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars playing to savor, lyrics to ponder, August 15, 2001

By	turtlegirl "chrissy" (los angeles.CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Havana Midnight (Audio CD)

previous reviewer maureen o'connell mentions that once one acquires a taste for bob neuwirth's voice, one is hooked, but she doesn't add that it's not so hard a taste to acquire--his voice has a comfortable, lived-in quality that's not only appealing but conveys a breadth of experience which adds to your own experience of the CD. the superb backing instrumentals do carry you off to the tropics, but that voice and the sometimes poignant, sometimes funny lyrics bring you back to reality with a bracing, though perhaps slightly melancholy feeling. tops!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soft & Warm, July 27, 2001

By	Leighanne Varney (San Francisco, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Havana Midnight (Audio CD)

This CD takes you to a warm, sultry night in the tropics. You can practically hear the soft waves lap the beach. You are able to feel warm, wet tradewinds against your damp skin. You breathe deeper, an enveloping calm seeps into your blood, and you think of all the love (both past and present) in your life.