ID this Latin musical type

This is really an FQ but I’m putting it here because it’s a trivial culture question.

The style Paul Simon is using in “The Vampire” is (to me) extremely ubiquitous and recognizable. If you told me to sit down at a piano and play “random Cuban song”, this is exactly what I (not an expert) would plink out. But I can’t put a name to the style. I don’t feel it fits to salsa, mambo, rumba, merengue, son.

Going down the YouTube rabbit hole has already been very edifying for me, and I could probably learn a lot from continuing it, but I really would just like to cut to the chase and know what exactly we call this subcategory:

Paul Simon, “The Vampire”.

Waiting for the day when AI can identify a song from me going “doot doot doot but then it’s like Tito Puente is going to come in with the timbales but he doesn’t, it’s not him, it’s a different guy, instead it’s like this slow jam but there could be a muted trumpet like bap bapa dap and sometimes they even throw in a violin”

It sounds like what is played in the campo in Cuba; the folk music, in other words. It’s quite similar to what you can hear played by The Buena Vista Social Club.

Maybe guajira-son.

An example:

BVSC is what I keep stumbling across over and over. Definitely they do a lot of what I’m trying to get at, but I had trouble turning up any kind of stylistic description than “Afro-Cuban”. If that’s it, that’s it, but I felt like maybe that’s an approximation for one or more specific things.

That video nailed it right on the head. I knew guajira is a thing, I knew son is a thing, but I didn’t realize there was guajira-son. So I think we can go with that.

Guajira-son is one song genre of Cuban music. “Guantanamera”, perhaps the most famous Cuban song outside Cuba, is guajira-son.

Here’s a video of a guitarist demonstrating guajira-son:

Now that you pointed it out, and I’m listening to it, it should have been pretty obvious to me. You can actually hear them singing the phrase guajira-son in many of those songs.

Cuban came to mind right away. I don’t know much about music but the tempo was was right.