FEATURE: New Music CD

RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO: ARTIST PROJECT EARTH -APE-

APE: Aims to help create a better world by bringing the power of music and other arts to 21st century challenges. It will bring appropriate action, raise funds and facilitate awareness with regard to environmental disasters, climate changes and related challenges (global warming). The Asian Tsunami of 2004 was the catalyst for the Rhythms del Mundo Project & the Sundance Festival its birthplace. The idea was hatched in that creative environment to bring together members of the Buena Vista Club in a colloboration with Western Artist to record popular famliar songs, fusing them with exciting Latin rhythmns.. -APE-

This is an ambitious project, that in my opinion is on the frontier of what music can do by bringing people of diverse backgrounds & different fields together for a good cause. Not all tracks are danceable, most are mid -tempo to down tempo, but you'll be putting your money to a good cause. This time it is action with music, as the refrain says: "actions speak louder than words".

STING sings a marvelously midtempo Spanish version of "Fragility", DIDO & FAITHLESS lay sentimental voices to " One step to far", CHRIS MARTIN of COLDPLAY reworks "Clocks", El LELE de los VAN VAN w/RADIOHEAD lay a soothing bolero, COCO FREEMAN w/ U2 fuse "Still haven't found what I'm looking for" pulling off a danceable track. It features IBRAHIM FERRER & OMARA PORTUONDO of the Buena Vista Club.