Antony Santos – La Chupadera

Antony Santos, El Mayimbe, both sings and plays the lead guitar, so on his early-1990s records the conversation happens within one musician. His requinto style, quick, clipped and syncopated, became the model for much of 1990s bachata. This album is the place to hear him setting that template: short guitar answers to every phrase, then longer runs between verses that pull the dancers along.