Son Demasiado (2002)

"David Alvarez from Manzanillo, Cuba, takes the slick contemporary salsa of South America and re-injects a healthy dose of tempered anarchy, Cuban style. The result is a pan-Carribean style successfully designed to induce havoc on dancefloors. It blazes; superb musicianship, tongue-in-cheek eroticism and a positively unearthly quantity of energy are the order of the day. Alvarez reclaims for Cuba a quantity of the cutting edge, not to mention the commerciality, normally considered the exclusive province of the Columbians and Venezuelans. He achieves this while maintaining an unmistakably Cuban flavour in the music. He has a life-long addiction to the greats of bolero and son such as Beny Moré, Blanca Rosa and Trio Matamaros, a grounding in more traditional Cuban forms such as tres, and he very clearly likes to party." (BBC)