Afrocolombian spirit gliding over La Habana, could be a good summary of this unique night, beginning in the Teatro de America, and ending in the streets as an improvised carnaval...
Showing posts with label cumbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cumbia. Show all posts
MIX /// Tropical Roundtrip Selection (from Colombia to Africa)
A real tropical roundrip, beginning in colombia with classy
60s cumbia, guiro y guaracha, merecumbe, maracumba, currulao, afrocolombian...
Pedro Lazo y sus Pelayeros - Fandango (and Porro, 60s)
(Fuentes LP 0011).
This early LP recorded by Pedro Laza for Fuentes label consists of 2 kind of styles widely played in Colombia: Fandango and Porro.
Fandango is originally an old spanish ternary rhythm, but being brought early to Colombia, it integrated local influences, african drums, brass bands (bandas papayeras), to become a successful style for record industry in the 50s.
Luis Morais em La Bonanza - La Murga Panamero
(Morabeza Records 6810 254).
Cabo Verde being on the road between Africa and the Caribbean, latin covers regularly appear. This Luis Morais LP includes a murga (credited to W. Calon and H. Lavon!), a cumbia (Lisandro Meza) and some other tropical rhythms.
La Bonanza was the name of the club in Rotterdam where Luis Morais' previous band (Voz de Cabo Verde) used to play during the late 60s.
Climaco Sarmiento - Bombo y Maracas
This heavy record is the second Cimaco Sarmiento released for Fuentes. It includes cumbia, gaita, porro, plena and also palenque, as is tagged the "Bombo y Maracas" hit. Hanging around in Baranquilla bars can reveal great record collections, and even in some small places, attention is paid to play the music with original vinyls...
Los Doggers de Colombia - Saca tu Pareja
(Benny LP001).
As I received several questions about a track selected for the Muzzicaltrips en Colombia mix, i post here another catchy track from Los Doggers.
Pico Culture #03 - Mysterious records
In order to maintain exclusivity of tracks played on each pico (and thus gain loyalty of the public who has to go to the party to listen to specific exclusive hits), it was common to tear away or paint the label sothat no one could read the original track. The result is some really unique beautiful pieces, but also some unidentified hits (everyone knows the song but no one knows who was the artist, so the track is only known by his spanish surname). That's the case with the following 7" played by the pico El Dragon, but originally from the famous pico El Coreano.
MIX /// Muzzicaltrips In Colombia (afrocolombiano, bombo, cumbia, currulao, gaita, guanguanco, porro)
Colombia is surely one of the most impressive country in Latin American, notably due to importance, diversity and quality of his music. Regionalism and opening to numerous influences being two particularities, listing and studying every styles (and sub-styles) becomes quickly a full time job.
For sure this 60s 70s LP selection cannot be representative of the richness of colombian music, but just travels all around the country, introducing some great gaita, jazzy cumbias, bombo, porro, currulao, guaguanco, afrocolombian crazy tracks from Silver, Fuentes, Felito, Tropical, Machuca, Curro...
Que disfruten el viaje!
Conjunto Miramar - Carruseles (Grabaciones Ondina)
(dia 1505 - grabaciones Ondina)
Let's follow the trip in Colombia with a cumbia from Medellin. This record is the LP from Conjunto Miramar (from the early 60s, then the band was renamed Sexteto Mirarmar), where the accordion takes his place not only on cumbia songs but also on a variety of great afrocaribbean rhythms played by the conjunto (guaracha, guajira, porro, pregon, son montuno).
Conjunto Miramar - Reina de Cumbias:
And here's one of the great sleeves from Ondina label:
MIX /// Muzzicaltrips back from Barcelona (45rpm selection)
Muzzicaltrips Mix /// 45rpms found in Barcelona (24min):
Polito Bances y su Conjunto
Ind. Peruana 0876
Polito bances y su Conjunto - Chiclayanita:
Polito Bances is a sax player from Peru, and played also in Ecuador. "Chiclayanita" is how is fondly called a women coming from the north shore city of Chiclayo.
The tunes is a great cumbia, composed by Rufino Millones.
Los Machucambos - La Cumbia (1971)
Cumbia made in France... Even not being from Colombia, Los Machucambos deliver in this 7" very good versions of the 2 cumbia classics composed by Jose Barros: "La Piragua" (the canoe) and "El Pescador" (the fisherman). This trio was formed in the late 50s, and was based in Paris. They had international succes with various southamerican influenced songs. The name "Machucambos" comes from an indian name for the small animal (armadillo/tatou) whose carapace is used to make the charango, traditionnal 2x5 strings guitar from Bolivia.
Los Machucambos - La Piragua:
Me contaron los abuelos que hace tiempo
navegaba en el Cesar una piragua
que partía del Banco viejo puerto
A las playas de amor en Chimichagua
Era la piragua de Guillermo Cubillos
Era la piragua, era la piragua (Bis)
Words come from an old story from Magdalena, native region of the composer. Guillermo Cubillos was a man who made a 12m length canoe called "La Piragua" to cross the river. The boat was so huge at this time (?) that it was a real center of attraction.
Los Machucambos - Allegre Pescador:
Va subiendo la corriente
Con chinchorros y atarrayas
La canoa de barenca
para llegar a la playa
La luna espera sonriente
Con su mágico esplendor
La llegada del valiente
Del alegre pescador
El pescador habla con la luna
El pescador habla con la playa
El pescador no tiene fortuna
Sólo su atarraya
Another boat story with this fisherman speaking with moon and beach, really unlucky, alone with his nets (it sounds better in spanish!)
Julia Cortes (Costa Rica)
Rafaêl Gayoso (Spain)
Romano Zanotti (Italy) (replaced Milton Zapata from Mexico)
Lisandro Meza - Shakalao / Shakara (1975)
Muzzicaltrips will present many exemples of mutual influences between Africa and Latin America.
Here's "Shacalao", played by Colombian Lisandro Mesa, cumbia master, known as "Accordion World Champion", joined by his conjunto.
It consists of a roots afro-colombian version of nigerian king of afrobeat Fela Kuti song "Skakara".
Amazing mixed influences version, atlantic ocean seems to have evaporated...
Lisandro Meza - Shakalao:
Accordeon is so spread in Colombia that I remember talking a guy who could not imagine nor concieve that this instrument was brought from abroad... As I could not convince him, let's have Lisandro Meza's clarification on story of 1st Accordeon in Colombia (A. Wolfe - 2003):
"The first accordion arrived in Colombia via Coveñas, brought by a man named Pisarro, Joaquín Pisarro. He came from Germany and arrived at the ports carrying grappa, wire, hammers, hachets, and machetes, and he traded thesae things for tabacco as he traveled. Once he brought an accordion and he sold it to the Villa Milian Oveja family for two bales of tobacco. The three brothers in the family all learned to play on that accordion.
Later they sold the accordion to Francisco El Hombre, whose real name was Francisco Moscote. They gave him the name "Francisco El Hombre" because he lived in Machovallo, and most of the men from that region were away working in the banana plantations when a plague came and killed many of the children. But there were no men to bury the children. Francisco said, "I am the man who will bury the children", so they called him "Francisco El Hombre" (Francisco the Man). The legend is that he was the first great accordionist from Colombia."
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