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融合了Salsa, Folklore, Jazz的跨界音乐，但保留了很浓厚的拉丁美洲风味，获得广泛好评。该唱片获得2004年格莱美奖最佳提名。\n=====================================\nImagine The Beatles and The Stones amalgamating for a recording project as 'Beatles and Stones'. Curious, no? Well, two leading Puerto Rican bands have been doing just that for three album's worth of great music, and the formula works beautifully.\n=====================================\nZaperoko have been well-known to quality latin dance music aficionados for two decades, ever since their groundbreaking debut release Cosa De Locos (1983, Montuno Records). Conceivedby trombonist Edwin Feliciano, inspired in part by a musical tour of Cuba, the album was the first (apart, perhaps, from 1979's Cortijo masterpiece La Maquina Del Tiempo) to fuse Cuban' Songo with Puerto Rican' salsa and folkloric elements, Brazilian samba, and several other flavours from jazz and funk.\n=====================================\nHector Valentin's traditional Boricuan plena and bomba group Truco, on the other hand, have a twenty-five year reputation as unflinching modernisers of Puerto Rico's two main indigenous song-forms.\n=====================================\nThe beauty and originality of the loose amalgamation of these two very different latin bands come across effectively and concisely on this, perhaps their strongest collective album to date. Feliciano's policy of encouraging jazz improvisation among his soloists bears fine fruit in the more modal jazz-salsa pieces, such as