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Intense, immediate and raw, El Cimaron fuses four musicians to evoke the inner world of Esteban, after he has escaped slavery.The work is based on the recorded memories of Esteban Montejo, a 104 year old Negro living in a veteran's home in Havana. Esteban grew up in the time of slavery and had then lived in the wilderness as a Cameroon, a runaway slave.