Silvio Rodriguez Best of Silvio Rodriguez: Cuba Classics 1 (Digital Download Card)Producer: Silvio Rodriguez. Compilation producer: David Byrne. Includes liner notes by David Byrne, Silvio Rodriguez, Bernardo Palombo & Frank Fernandez. A release of Cuban music following closely on the heels of the break in the blockade for cultural exchange, this album features one of the founders of the nueva trova movement of Cuban music, somewhere between poetry and song in general. The music itself might flow from pop to nothingness, to light

San Francisco

Even after the millions of heavy metal albums that have followed in its wake

a form well-suited to her intense

while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from her mother's death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos

which received 4 STARS from Rolling Stone - and a print profile - a multi-page critic’s essay from The New Yorker and features with The Cut

and James McNew did it all themselves

On Lightning Bolt

2001 terrorist attacks

making it one of the album's shining moments

and it's not quite as strong and consistent as their masterpiece Rocket to Russia

Make the Road by Walking - Menahan Street Band 5

It's pure raging rock & roll intensity