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Show Pt THE DAILY KIRALD, E4 (ww.HaftThcHerllcomX Provo, Utah, SuoAiy, Jnuary 26, 2003 Guitarist's love affair with Cuban music yields melodic new album started playing the guitar; it was to me the big discovery of (them) all," Cooder recalls. Tt was nothing like I expectRy Cooder, the guitarist ed. They dont play much and producer who was the electric guitar down there, catalyst for the liuena Vista and here was a real classic Social Club" phenomenon, ia electric player, in the cool, trying to explain what keeps old, stompy way." pulling him back to Cuba. In the "50s, Galban told Ifs not the music happen- him, a group of musicians ing there now. The people were intent on moving away he there love hip-ho- p ' from Cuban dance traditions. groans, and as an invasion-ar-y Their style was sometimes force goes, that's the called mambo-jaz- z and, proworst thing ever." mambo craze in the by pelled Ifs not even the thrill of the United States, it traveled discovering a lost singer, or quickly: Bandleader Perez collaborating with a legend Prado had a string of hits; such as Manuel Galban, the Arsenio Rodriguez guitarist guitarist who was huge before he emigratshares the spotlight with ed to the States in the early Cooder on the spellbinding '508. It influenced Stan Keninstrumental collection ton ("Cuban Fire") as well as "Mambo Sinuendo" Henry Mancini ("Peter Gunn Verde, 4 stars), to Theme") and others. be released Tuesday. It was the last time the Ifs more cosmic than that guitar played an integral role The music of Cuba suggests in Cuban music. "Obviously a way of living, a gentility Cuban musicians heard stuff elsefinds Cooder, 55, lacking on the radio," Cooder says. where. "But a whole bunch of the "I want life to be like this, history we take for granted with singers-caressinin blues and rock guitar, they melodies and taking their never heard. Like Scotty time. I have to admit, I feel Moore from Elvis' band: Galanorexic sometimes at home, ban knows Duane Eddy, but like an empty shell, where not Moore. ... And they totaldown there I have a sense ly missed the modern guitar that life is copacetic." era." And so, years after "Buena That, Cooder insists, is Vista," Cooder returns to what makes musicians such Cuba regularly, scouting for unusual projects, playing and as Galban special. Their sensibilities were shaped back jamming. When he was when melody mattered. working on the first Ibrahim Before the guitar mashed up Ferrer solo CD, he got to the middle of the music with know Galban, who for many droning chords and distortionyears was the arranger for -pedal effects. Before the the hugely popular Cuban doo-wo- p group Los Zafiros. amps were cranked up to 11. "I mean the minute he "The electric guitar now, ifs not even a cliche," Cooder By TOM MOON said. "Ifs like a car totally impersonal, everyone doing the same thing. ... Especially (with) a lot of young musicians, theyVe worried that people are going to think they're corny or schmaltzy, so they refuse to play ballads and they dont really play anything melodic That"s why we did "Secret Love,' just to show what can happen when you give the music some Knight Ridtfcr Newspaper . (None-suchPer- (Mivh HJrail 1 Ql- - copacetic" relax with flat-o- ut "Secret Love" begins ten- - contatively as a versation, and blossoms as Galban restates the theme with lazy long tones and .quintessential Cuban inflections. Ifs at once retro and modem, airy enough to be cool jazz, but straight enough to lure lovers onto a bygone Ry Cooder, guitarist, on Cuban music ar two-guit- ballroom dance floor. Cooder believes that "Secret Love" works because of the way Galban plays with a reverence for the tune and an ear for nuance. "He knows how to stick that melody right in your face." "Mambo Sinuendo was recorded over a year or so, with. Cooder and Galban forming part of a modified Cuban "sexteto," the guitars augmented by drummers Jim Keltner and son, Joachim; bassist Orlando . "Cachaito" Lopez,, and conga master Anga Diaz. Sometimes Galban played piano or organ thaf s him ripping through "Caballo Viejo." Cooder says it took the group a long time to arrive at its sense of swing. 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As the paint began to dry on his body, he found himself forced to emerge , from an artificial sort of skin. , mush nui 12:002:154:30 7:00 9:15 'U : sfi ever-changi- test 2 WEEKS NOTICE aull hydraulic Too Big Dog Monkey" robot this month at El Museo del Barrio's biennial in Manhattan. a i 12:304:157:2010:00 796-r- ' 0 12:152:305:00 7:30 9:40 if.'. , NEW YORK "We found a great junkyard," cheers Chico MacMurtrie. This is, like, a score." The Brooklyn artist is on alua hunt for tube-stoc- k minum at J.P. Salvage Inc. in Staten Island, an important first step in creating his beguiling "interactive robotic performance art" Before you begin picturing scenes from Star Wars" or automated Christmas elves, it should be known that MacMurtrie, a serial winner of National Endowment for the Arts grants, does not consider his creations toys or stamping-plan- t automatons. They're : sculpture. "I build robots that have no function," says the under- stated MacMurtrie, who often struggles to describe his projects to the uninitiated and curious. TJltimately, when I show them a picture, they're quite fascinated." Crowds have gathered for shows in Europe, Asia and South America, and New Yorkers can get a glimpse of v very primitive state of coming to life for the first time," he says. "It was a complete and utter epiphany... . That was the main inspiration for bringing this metal to life." Founded by MacMurtrie in 1992, Amorphic Robot Works (www.amorphicrobot-works.org- ) is the name of his cast of artistic collaborators. The operation is based, for now, in a former Norwegian seamen's church in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where the group is quietly creating a society of "primitive machines" on an otherwise human and residential block. There are more than 250 computer-controlle- d machines, ranging from 12 inches to 90 feet long. 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