Rough Guide to Cumbia - Colombia's Classic Dance Rhythm

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Rough Guide to Cumbia
Colombia's Hip-Swinging Dance Rhythm
Colombian Cumbia is the beloved tropical dance music characterized by rolling drums, maracas and the royally raspy guacharaca scraper. This Rough Guide highlights the best from Cumbia's coastal Afro-Caribbean roots through to its entirely modern incarnations. Explore the vintage works of Lucho Bermúdez, Los Corraleros de Majagual through to the urban stylings of El Hijo De La Cumbia and Los Chapillacs.

"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 Roden

1 Alberto Pacheco Cumbia Cienaguera
2 Romulo Caicedo La Luna Y El Pescador
3 Henry Castro - Cumbia De Colombia
4 Lucho Bermúdez Y Su Orquesta - Colombia Tierra Querida
5 Tamara - Maria Candela
6 Leonor González Mina - Yo Me Llama Cumbia
7 Alfredo Gutiérrez Y Sus Estrellas - La Banda Borracha
8 Chico Cervantes - Fiesta En Corraleja
9 Corraleja 71 - La Pollera Colora
10 Romulo Caicedo - Guepa Je (removed due to copyright issues)
11 Edmundo Arias - Cumbia Sobre El Mar
12 Lisandro Meza - Salsipuedes (removed due to copyright issues)
13 Jaime Llano González - Cumbia En Azul
14 Cristobal Perez Y Su Conjunto - La Negra Celina
15 Pepe Molina - Cumbiambera
16 Leonor González Mina - Navidad Negra
17 Los Hispanos Atlantico
18 Los Black Stars - La Piragua
19 Guillermo González Y Su Orquesta - Tolu
20 Los Falcons - Cumbia De Sal
21 Jaime Llano González - Cumbia Sampuesana
22 Lucho Bermúdez Y Su Orquesta - Danza Negra

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Compiled By, Sleeve Notes – Sandra Alayón-Stanton
Coordinator – Catherine Steinmann
Mastered By – Laurence Cedar

Produced by World Music Network in association with Rough Guides, NCOS and New Internationalist.
This Compilation ℗&© World Music Network 2000
Barcode: 605633104325
Label Code: LC 11067
Matrix / Runout: [Sonopress Logo] A-19200/ RGNET1043 A
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LB 47
Mould SID Code: IFPI 0709

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