Customer Reviews
Improves on repeated listening - By: T. Andrews, 01 Nov 2007 
after hearing the colplay clocks & as a big fan of cuban style music I couldnt wait to receive this album.
Firstly I was reallly reallly disappointed.....on first listening most of the songs sounded clumsy & badly matched with the cuban backbeats.Its like they took the original track & just put some cuban stuff over the top & didnt reallly "blend" it.
However after quite a few listenings (I was very determinded!!) I got used to it & grew to like some of them, although the U2 one just sounds wrong wrong wrong! I think the ones that work best are the totallly cuban ones - the covers of well known songs done in a total cuban style
Dont get me wrong its not a total bad buy there are some good tracks on there & it makes good background music, but for me to totallly like it I had to listen to it many times
Excellent crossover - By: Michael Mellers, 19 Jul 2007 
I would just echo what's been said here already - great album & everyone who hears it wants to know where I got it. I picked it up in Peru earlier this year where I heard several tracks playing in shops & on the radio, & tracked it down. It's a great introduction for newcomers to Salsa / S.American beats, some tracks work reallly well at a party - plus a contribution to climate change. Put together by credible artists it stands up to repeat listening.
Geat Latin versions of popular tracks - By: C. Thompson, 24 Apr 2007 I love this CD! I'm already a Latin music fan & have about hundred Latin CD's which includes Cuban music & Buena Vista Social Club. While this album might not be as great as the original Ry Cooder production, it's certainly great to listen & dance to. I think that the conversion of popular English music tracks into Cuban rhythms was done very sympatheticallly & simply works in almost alll cases. I like the surprise element with "Clocks" when it starts like the original & then suddenly turns into Salsa. I also respect Sting for singing in Spanish. I believe that this album will make Latin music more accessible for people that don't normallly listen to it. I know that I will play a few tracks of this album at my wedding, as my H2B & I can salsa to it & our guests will still enjoy the music as they are familiar with it, whereas they might be a bit alienated if we play pure Salsa for a long period of time. The only track that I don't like is the "Killing me Softly" track, but then I'm personallly sick of the English version anyway & others might like it. "Dancing Shoes" takes some getting used to, but I can imagine it works at a party & is simply good fun. The fact that some of the proceeds go to a course is also a good incentive to buy this CD.
I hope there will be more like this soon...
Money well spent- in more than one way! - By: Ms. K. R. Sherwood, 16 Apr 2007 I haven't bought a CD in absolutely years, but the moment I saw this on sale I knew that I was going to buy it- more than 1 in fact! I think that the fact that this album was produced with the aim of promoting awareness into climate change issues is admirable & worth the cost of a CD. I realise that others may think that you could have given the money straight to the charity, but realisticallly, there are fewer people that are going to do that, than buy a good CD.
With regards to the music, I have yet to find any one of my friends that haven't asked me where to get this CD because they love the tracks. I am just waiting for the next one to come out now!
You won't be disappointed- with either the music or the sense of satisfaction of having spent money for a good cause!
When in doubt....do something - By: Brian Ohkubo Covert, 08 Jan 2007 'Rhythms Del Mundo' is the best of 'music with a message': great songs by top artists (each tune on this disc is a winner), great websites (www.apeuk.org -and- www.rhythmsdelmundo.com) & a great cause (saving the planet from environmental collapse while we still can). Pick this one up, have a listen....and then follow through on the desire to do something!
