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Pedro Luis Ferrer
By BEN RATLIFF Published: June 4, 2006
The Cuban singer-songwriter Pedro Luis Ferrer makes his music from a remarkably broad position: his poetry reorders language and emotions, and his composing, half of it in an invented hybrid style he calls Changüisa, combines traditional song forms from different parts of Cuba. "Natural" (Escondido) is the latest astonishment from his home studio in Havana, with Mr. Ferrer leading a tight little acoustic band on the guitar and tres, and Lena Ferrer, his daughter, singing with him in close harmony. (Anyone slightly curious needs to hear her voice: it is like oxygen.) Known in the past for a slight edge of protest — for which he has been partly censored by his country's government — Mr. Ferrer records songs that are consistently too smart for dogma. One deals with a party where young women turn into Martians, one deals comically with the idea of a cold wife, one with the cliché of history repeating itself, one with the agony of accepting one's fate. All are both more and less than they seem. 06/04/06 >> go there
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