Hi there, I know you guys will point me to the appropiate direction with Christian Fennesz and David Grubbs. I've heard some stuff from both and they sounded pretty good, but I couldn't really identify those recordings. Any good starters? Is Fennesz as interesting as they depict him or is it just some kind of annoying O'Rourke-like-hype?! I thank you in advance. Totally unrelated, last Friday I attended a show by Ribot's Prosthetic Cubans plus Joe Bataan, about who I inquired several days ago here on the list. I was wondering if somebody else has seen the Cubanos recently and what your thoughts are. I couldn't believe what I was seeing (in the most negative terms). The lineup has changed considerably, with Brad Jones on bass, EJ Rodriguez on drums, some Latin percussionist, Curtis Fowlkes and some (unknown to me) lady on trombone and Ribot. The whole thing seems to have turned into an extremely "for the fun of it"-thing. Of course, there's nothing wrong about it, unless you caught them live four or five years ago with the original lineup of Anthony Coleman, Roberto J. Rodriguez, etc, minus brasses. That was for me the real deal. After four or five songs, quite unremarkable, Joe Bataan, his wife and his daughter came up onstage and the thing turned into Joe Batan & Family plus backing band. The guy's OK, he's got a good voice, he's a lot of fun and he knows how to heat up the crowds, but again, that wasn't the Prosthetic Cubans I/we expected -I saw the faces of the people and it was very easy to make distinctions between newcomers and puzzled non-newcomers. As if that weren't enough, they played in the famous... I mean, infamous Forum de las Culturas in Barcelona, an awful place dominated by concrete, water, bad & expensive food, speculation, senseless shows, fake pan-culturalism, far too long walks to anywhere you want to go, etc... All in all, a forgettable night. I know some other listers were there on Friday and Saturday. I'd be very curious to know their impressions. Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: Rowe/Müller/Sugimoto "The World Turned Upside Down" (Erswhile) ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es