Mundo

by Rub茅n Blades & 脡ditus

Mundo cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 September 2002
  • Label: Sony Discos
  • Country: Panama
  • Length: 1:08:31
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Blades recorded the album in San Jos茅, Costa Rica, with the Costa Rican group 脡ditus and producers Walter Flores and Edin Sol铆s, folding Celtic, African and Latin traditions into one program. It won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album and a Latin Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, and its 'Danny Boy' is dedicated to the firefighters of 9/11, alongside a version of Pat Metheny's 'First Circle'.

Genres

Descriptors: genre-blending, acoustic, percussive, male-vocals, diverse

Tracklist

  1. Estampa (7:22)
  2. First Circle (4:50)
  3. Primogenio (3:51)
  4. Bochinches (4:41)
  5. Ella (5:46)
  6. Parao (5:58)
  7. Como Nosotros (5:40)
  8. El Capitan Y La Sirena (3:29)
  9. Sebastian (5:05)
  10. Consideraci贸n (3:51)
  11. Jiri Son Bali (4:20)
  12. Danny Boy (6:54)
  13. La Ruta (4:06)
  14. A San Patricio (2:33)

Credits

  • Mauricio Maestro - arranged by
  • Eric Rigler - bagpipes, flute [irish]
  • Alejandra Sol铆s - bass [upright]
  • Gilberto Gil - lyrics by, music by
  • Nelson Gonz谩lez - tres
  • Lalo Rojas - programmed by [midi]
  • Ed铆n Sol铆s - producer
  • Traditional - written-by

More from Rub茅n Blades & 脡ditus: full discography