Magia Negra

Omara Portuondo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Velvet
• ASIN: B000008T2R
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,216,697 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Magia Negra

2. Adios

3. Ogueré

4. Ya No Me Quieres

5. Llanto de Luna

6. Noche Cubana

7. Andalucía

8. Qué Emoción!

9. El Hombre Que Se Fué

10. No Hagas Caso

11. No Puedo Ser Feliz

12. Caravan (La Caravana)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, July 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Magia Negra (Audio CD)

This early recording stands out as easily the worst recorded CD in my collection - apparently made with a 60's home cassette recorder. A pity because the tracks might otherwise have been enjoyable. Try Desafios or the Buena Vista Social Club Presents instead.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Response, August 21, 2000

By 

Brian Bartley (Brisbane, Qld Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magia Negra (Audio CD)

Luis, I am prepared to accept everything you say about the provenance of this recording - your knowledge on the subject is greater than mine. But at the end of the day, most of us just buy recordings for listening pleasure rather than historical interest. It doesnt really matter how bad the master tapes were and how hard they tried to do their best. When the end result is as bad as this, it should come with a warning that the sound quality is inferior to what we are entitled to expect on a (full price) CD. Since the recording company has overlooked it, I thought I would let folks know. I also have to disagree about the relative value of the recordings. "Interesting" is about the best I can do - but for enjoyment, give me the recent recordings any time. These tracks are no doubt rare, but rarity is generally not much of a guide to quality -except that sometimes recordings become rare because they are not thought worth preserving. Sorry Luis, it's still 1 star for me.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars beautiful music, March 16, 2004

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extreme budda "extreme_budda" (earth, galaxy universe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magia Negra (Audio CD)

I first heard this song from the movie "My Life without Me".
It's beautiful music. (beautiful enough to make me slow-mo the end credits to find out who the singers are since there is no movie soundtrack produced)

I just started listening to Latin Music about 3 years ago, so i don't know the history that well but i know good music when i hear them.

So if you never heard of her and still hesitating, i think this album is a good one to start.

ps. i don't speak more than 4 words of spanish, if someone could translate the lyrics and post them somewhere, it would be greatly appreciated.

ps2. the lyrics doesn't really matter, for all i know, she could be singing about eating slimy chicken meat while being chased by wild pigs, the music still sound amazing...