South American Rhythm
N popular music my preference is with the Guy Mitchell songs as much as with anything else, but Edmundo Ros and his band run a close second. True, I fee] that the original, real or imagined, beat of the rain forests has been con(continued on next page)
siderably urbanised by the maestro’s orchestra. The sensuous passion one might expect from Latin America is here only lightly echoed in the laughter of the gala. This is the same movement one gets from the life and death seriousness of the masks worn by ancient native priests to the grotesques of the carnival nodding their monstrous heads as they unwittingly poke fun at their own ancestors. The main characteristic of this sensuous music is the beat both at moments of intenser passion and in the simple good. fun of Edmundo Ros. And it is this strong rhythmic element which appeals, carrying one away to an easy and spontaneous life. All this, then, by way of saying thanks to Edmundo Ros for a session of his music recently
heard over 3YA,.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 10
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181South American Rhythm New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 10
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