Hello and good morning on this Easterday. I think it’s for the first
time we are having us a white Easter. Even with Chrsitmas we
had better weather, it’s cold and snowing on this 31st of march.
Spring just doesn’t realise we’re already entering april tomorrow.

Winter or spring, we play tropical music all year round so that
makes no difference. Today I’ll spoil you with some ‘Tropical de
Colombia’. From 1975 on Discos Fuentes de Medellin Colombia
we’ve got this wonderful album by Los Corraleros de Majagual.
This supergroup had relations with the most fantastic artists.
On this album alone we find Lisandro Meza, Eliseo Herrera,
Julio Erazo and Calixto Ochoa to name just a few. But they
also hosted Alfredo Gutierrez, Lucho Argain and Nacho
Paredes among many others. Great vocalists, hot
rhythmsection and horns, better don’t miss..

tracks;

1   El vivo y el bobo
2   El pobre pollo
3   El bailador
4   Mosaico
–    Mata de caña
–    Trigueñita
–    La tombola
5   Mosaico
–    Spanish flea
–    La chichera
6   La burrita
7   Palma de coco
8   Mosaico
–    Cartagenera
–    La cola del diablo
–    El machorrito
–    Yo conozco a claudia
9   Pompo del 66
10  Charanga internacional

Once I got acquainted with this type of music, there
was no way of stopping that train. A whole new territory
to explore, the Discos Fuentes 1970’s brought loads of
sweet cumbia. It took some time to find but recently we got
real lucky. Take this here lp, Alfredo Gutierrez joined with
us in 2008 with one album, october 23rd. Always on the
lookout for Fuentes, last fair made me a happy man. At
last, a small pile of Colombian treasure found it’s way
and ended on this fools shelf. Nacho Paredes is the
singer on this one, marvelous voices,
rolling beats & golden accordeons..

tracks;

1   Cumbia sampuesana
2   La amapola
3   Prende la vela
4   Cumbia colombia
5   Guepa-je
6   Cumbia loca
7   La folklorica
8   Cumbia china
9   Panameña
10  Adorada socorro

Good evening, the groove of today is going to be a Colombian
one. On Discos Curro we have us an album with songs by three
groups. Orquesta Melodia, La Sonora Curro and Super Combo
de Curramba. It is not exactly clear what band plays which song.
The cover does not give that information nor does the label of the
record. How ever they organised it, I don’t really care. The music is
so hot, it makes one forget such futilities. So get it and spread it,
it is one of the hottest Colombian sounds I ever heard, enjoy..

tracks;

1   Palenquerita
2   Arroz con coco
3   Jalaito moreno
4   Avivata
5   El tigre pampanilla
6   Pon tu mano en mi corazón
7   Que toque rufo
8   Ah… como no sabia
9   Taki taki
10  La carestía
11  Moncho emiliani
12  No fumo

Thought you would like some good weather music.
This is the happiest latin ever, listen
to another Colompilation..

tracks;

1   Andrés Landero y su Conjunto – La cigarrona
2   Los Corraleros de Majagual – El vampiro
3   Climaco Sarmiento y su Orquesta – La cigarra
4   Comb Sampuesano – La pisinga
5   Lisandro Meza y su Conjunto – Las cosas de la vida
6   Los Hermanos Marquez – Yo conozco a Claudia
7   Andrés Landero y su Conjunto – Cumbia enlaIndia
8  LaSonora Cordobesa – San Carlos
9   Alfredo Gutierrez y su Conjunto – Panameña
10  Los Corraleros de Majagual – La palma de coco
11  Andrés Landero – Mi machete
12  Los Teen Agers – La pata pela
13  Los Corraleros de Majagual – Tres tigres
14  Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La compatible
15  Los Corraleros de Majagual – La sampa
16  Pedro Laza y sus pelayeros – El sabanero
17  Los Corraleros de Majagual – Del tingo al tango

For this saturday a re-up and re-post. Anibal Velasquez is still one of
Colombia’s biggest artists. I read somewhere he made over 300 records
a huge amount. Still performing, he turns places upside-down. If you
ever get the chance to see him perform do not hesitate and buy that
ticket instantly. I hope to get that chance myself one fine day.
For now, enjoy this oldie but very goodie oncemore, check # 8.

tracks;

1   Que ojos
2   La caracucha
3   Que se muera
4   Mi barquita
5   La muerte de Anibal
6   Te la vi
7   Palito seco
8   Pobre y viejo
9   Mi suegra
10   La muerte de Bartola
11   La que se fue
12   Mi comadre

Okay, let’s see, Blogger made some big mistake
while updating their website and my two latest posts
got lost somehow. I’m not gonna sit and wait so here
they are once more. In a while they restore them and
we have them two times all of a sudden. We’ll see
what happens. Anyway, enjoy Colompilation 5 again.

tracks;

1 Tonu Zuñiga – El palito de aji
2 Eliseo Herrero – La adivinanza
3 Guillermo Buitrago – Dame tu mujer José
4 Andrés Landero – Cumbia cumbe
5 Calixto Ochoa – Mata’e caña
6 Nora Tatis – Caimán gallizano
7 Juancho Polo Valencia – El sombrerito
8 Jairo Likasale – El sapo muerde
9 Crescencio Camacho – Compadrito
10 Lisandro Meza – Las Africanas
11 Jimmy Pedrozo – Negrito Cayaya
12 El Pibe Velasco – Palenquerita
13 Orchestra Edmundo Arias – Ligia
14 Ramón Vargas – Alegria Costeña
15 Plutarco Urrutia – Esperando a Patricia
16 Julio Erazo – Espumita del rio
17 Nora Tatis – La tabaquera

If you are familiar with Discos Fuentes de Colombia you
know that pretty women go together with their music. So
when I thought about a cover for this collector of Colombian
sounds, the choice was easily made. It’s all about the music
of course and you know I’m serious,
..ahem, let’s dance till dawn.

tracks;

1 Calixto Ochoa – Amor sincero
2 Ramón Vargas – Alegría Costeña
3 Lisandro Meza y Conjunto – El guayacan
4 La Sonora Cordobesa – Pero dame eso
5 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La boquillera
6 Guillermo Buitrago – El amor de Claudia
7 Alfredo Gutierrez – Paloma guarumera
8 La Sonora Dinamita – Feliciana
9 Rufo Garrido – La vaca vieja
10 Andrés Landero – Dejame gozar la vida
11 Los Golden Boys – La negra Celina
12 Clímaco Sarmiento – La borrachona
13 Andrés Landero – Perdi las abarcas
14 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La cosecha de mujeres
15 Alfonso Piña Cogollo – El doctor
16 Miguel Duran – India matea

Did you enjoy that Colombian compilation I called ‘Cumbia Sabrosa’?
You can find it back on may 31, 2008, in our archives. It contained
that hot track, ‘Colombia tierra querida’. Lucho Bermudez was one of
the orchestral leaders that wrote history. Check out this album with
the traditional pretty lady cover. Gaita, porro, merengue, paseo,
cumbia and bolero by one of Colombia’s master composers.

tracks

1 La gaita de las flores
2 Miguelito
3 Lina
4 Lo mas lindo que yo tengo
5 Tierra mia
6 Muchachas Colombianas
7 Maqueteando
8 Hasta luego Medellin
9 Me gustas
10 Mosaico Colombiano

I just got back from a two day recordsearch and came home
with a pile of music from Congo, Nigeria, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica,
Mali, Guinée, Cabo Verde, Tchad, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Cuba,
Brazil and Colombia. Wow, now I look at it myself, not a bad score.
The journey back took me almost seven hours today while in fact
it’s a 5 hour trip. Some big accident along the way. Tomorrow I’ll
tell you more, for now start listening to this happy music.
Discos Fuentes brings this collector with all kind of cumbia-like
tropical dance music, fantastic stuff you don’t want to miss.
An oldie but goodie so to say, do you know where I went ?
Demain Franck, demain plus.

tracks;

1 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – Agua de panela ( mapalé )
2 Carlos Martelo y su Orquesta – Vacilando ( paseaíto )
3 La Sonora Cordobesa – El tapaboca ( paseaíto )
4 Monteria Swing – Juanché ( porro )
5 La Sonora Cienaguera – La jicara ( paseaíto )
6 Juan Piña y su Orquesta – La puyanga ( Puyanga )
7 La Sonora Cordobesa – La sobadera ( Gaita )
8 Carlos Martelo y su Orquesta – El totumo ( porro )
9 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – Soy Pelayero ( porro )
10 Monteria Swing – El patoco ( Pupalé )
11 Juan Piña y su Orquesta – Suelta el gallo ( fandango )
12 La Sonora Cienaguera – Martinez Banda ( porro )

Sonolux from Medellin Colombia released this collector in 1982.
It contains some Colombian highlites from the 70’s and early 80’s.
The cover makes you expect a quite commercial album and it does have
one or two of those tracks. On the other hand we find a few great
songs. Anibal Velasques always makes a difference and Alfredo Linares’
Tiahuanaco swings fantastic, but my favourite is absolutely track #3,
by Los Montuneros.

tracks;

1 Los Tremendos de Colombia – Ese amor
2 Darigil y su Combo – Cumbia Calentana
3 Los Montuneros – Francisco del otro lado
4 Los Alegres de San Basilio – La espina
5 Don Medardo y sus Players – La ladrona
6 Grupo Chambacu – Alhucema con Romero
7 Grupo Escala – Porque eme sigues
8 Anibal Velasques – Un poquito de cariño
9 Alfredo Linares – Tiahuanaco
10 Tamara – La limosna