Before Ry Cooder brought the Buena Vista Social Club into Starbuckses and Barnes & Nobles across the land, there was Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos. Formed on a bit of a lark by fellow NYC session musicians, the band applied its subtle contemporary American touch to a classic Cuban/Puerto Rican sound. Ribot is at his loosest and most comfortable here, while the Prosthetic Cubans cook behind him in a way that transports the listener to a modern Havana that exists only in myth for us outsiders.

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