Carlos Vives - Clasicos de la Provincia
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Artist: Carlos VivesEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: EMI Latin
Soundtracks:
- La Gota Fria
- Amor Sensible
- Alicia Adorada
- La Hamaca Grande
- El Cantor De Fonseca
- Matilde Lina
- Altos Del Rosario
- Honda Herida
- La Canaguatera
- Lirio Rojo
- La Tijera
- Compae Chipuco
- Pedazo De Acordeon
- La Celosa
- Contestacion A La Brasilera (Fragmento)
Free Music Notes for Clasicos de la Provincia
Free Music Review: Amazing dance tunes from a little-known Latin genre
Hit: 5 Stars
This Vives' superb 1994 musical debut brought the amazing vallenato musical tradition to world consciousness. CLASICOS is a collection of twentieth-century Colombian vallenatos, a muscial form originally played with triangle, guitar and accordion, but here updated to include an impressive array of drums and electric instruments. This is mountain dance music, what Colombians listen to when they party, and it is simply intoxicating.
The classic heavy-groove "La Gota Fria" kicks the disc off with its story of duelling musicians, and is followed by love songs, laments and even a track ("Alicia Adorada") which filters reggae through Latin sensibilities. From classic portraits of vallenato life-- the town drunk of "Compae Chipuco"-- to love songs like "Amor Sensible," Vives' collection explores the genre's best tunes.
Vives' band, La Provincia, includes members whose fathers wrote some of the tunes, and all are superb players. The music is fluid, supple, deeply groovy and compulsively danceable. The band-- and disc's-- highlight, however, is the awesome accordeon playing of Egidio Cuadrado. As a Guatemalan friend put it, "Jimi Hendrix was the Egidio Cuadrado of the electric guitar," and if so, "Purple Haze" must be Hendrix' guitar version of "Pedazo de Acordeon." Cuadrado, like Keith Richards or Bob Mould, drops blasts of rhythm, then drifts away into sly fragments of solos and back, all in a breath.
Vives is also a superb live player and a fairly entertaining guy-- if he comes to your area, make the effort to see him!
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