The Rough Guide to Cumbia
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Music Label: World Music Network
Soundtracks:
- Cumbia Gienaguera - Alberto Pacheco
- La Luna Y El Pescador - Romulo Caicedo
- Cumbia De Colombia - Henry Castro
- Colombia Tierra Querida - Lucho Bermudez Y Su Orquesta
- Maria Candela - Tamara
- Yo Me Llamo Cumbia - Leonor Gonzalez Mina
- La Banda Borracha - Alfredo Gutierrez Y Sus Estrellas
- Fiesta En Corraleja - Chico Cervantes
- La Pollera Colora - Corraleja 71
- Guepa Je - Romulo Caicedo
- Cumbia Sobre El Mar - Edmundo Arias
- Salsipuedes - Lisandro Meza
- Cumbia En Azul - Jaime Llano Gonzalez
- La Negra Celina - Cristobal Perez Y Su Conjunto
- Cumbiambera - Pepe Molina
- Navidad Negra - Leonor Gonzalez Mina
- Atlantico - Los Hispanos
- La Piragua - Los Black Stars
- Tolu - Guillermo Gonzalez Y Su Orquesta
- Cumbia De Sal - Los Falcons
- Cumbia Sampuesana - Jaime Llano Gonzalez
- Danza Negra - Lucho Bermudez Y Su Orquesta
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Free Music Review: La Cumbia no esta herida!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is truly an excellent cumbia collection. Every song is beautifully arranged and evokes a kind of nostalgia for this "music of the coast." If you are someone who values variety in a CD compilation, however, you might want to give the samples on this amazon website a good listen before you purchase the CD. While the cumbia songs are wonderfully pure and truly representative of this fantastic music, they do sound very similar (which isn't a surprise, of course, because this is a CD of cumbia!). If you like what you hear, then you should certainly get this disc. The music is rhythmically infectious, romantic and will definitely survive many rotations in your CD player. If you enjoy this kind of music, I also have to recommend the "Colombia" CD by Putumayo and any album by Toto La Momoposina, a fantastic Colombian singer, especially "Carmelina" and "Pacanto."
The Rough Guide to Cumbia Poster
Cumbia is one of the world's great dance grooves. It is made up of merry guitars and accordions, torrid brass, and insistent, deep-toned drums and percussion, pounding out a lopsided, strutting 4/4 rhythm with a kick like nitroglycerine. Cumbia is the result of three colliding cultures that settled in Colombia at different times. Indigenous peoples were followed by the Spanish conquistadors, who added on Moorish influences from the sack of Granada. Finally, African slaves were brought in, and they supplied both the rhythm and the means to bring it forth. From its beginnings as a courtship dance among the slave population, cumbia gradually became the soul of the entire nation. The tunes on this compilation make it easy to understand why. They were licensed from the Sonolux label and date from the '60s through the '90s. Uniformly infectious and compulsively danceable, this is an essential party album, a good time on a disc. --Christina RodenCumbia is one of the great Latin rhythms and Colombia's most popular dance music. The Rough Guide To Cumbia highlights the golden age of this infectious dance rhythm, exploring its folkloric roots in the rural communities of Colombia's Caribbean coast, and featuring tracks from the biggest cumbia stars.
Artists include: Alberto Pacheco, Corraleja 71, Lucho Berm?dez, Lisandro Meza, Leonor Gonz?lez Mina, Edmundo Arias, Los Hispanos and Los Black Stars
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