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

One of our visitors suggested to make a second Colompilation.
I thought that would be a good idea, so I did. Here’s Colompilation
2, another 14 of my favourite Colombian tracks. Volume
up, empty the room and dance !

tracks;

1 Orquesta Ritmo de Sabanas – Porro Bonito
2 Nelson Diaz y el Combo de Duque Palomino – Que me coma el tigre
3 La Sonora Cordobesa – La mafafa
4 Los Golden Boys – El elevao
5 Emilio Oviedo – Yolanda
6 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La calle 13
7 Los Corraleros de Majagual – No te vayas cariño
8 Bovea y sus Vallenatos – La casa en el aire
9 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La negra caliente
10 Los Corraleros de Majagual – La burrita
11 Pacho Galan – Quiero amanecer
12 Calixto Ochoa y su Conjunto – Pirulino
13 José Caceres Land – Suena la timba
14 Antonio Fuentes – Mi nena

Part from some tracks on compilations, I do not use to post any
material from CD. This one by Guillermo Buitrago is an absolute
exeption. If I would not use it, it was impossible to post any
Buitrago. His LP’s, as far as they exist at all, are not to find.
I repost this album for several reasons. It contains songs for
december and new year, well our new year at the Global Groove
starts tomorrow. Part from that, this music is so delightful, I
truely don’t understand it didn’t get any response. I am crazy
about these songs. When I discovered this compilation, I wept
tears of happiness. Maybe it’s just me being foolish, but give
this one another chance and I’m sure you will not regret.

tracks;

1 La vispera de año novo
2 Ron de Vinola
3 Dame tu mujer José
4 Grito vagabundo
5 El huerfanito
6 Compae Heliodoro
7 El amor de Claudia
8 La carta
9 La araña picua
10 La piña madura
11 La hija de mi comadre
12 Que criterio
13 Las mujeres no me quieren
14 Cienaguera
15 El testamento
16 El brujo de Arjona

This afternoon I paid some Amsterdam shops a visit and
found this Colombian collector from the 70’s.
It contains 3 or 4 songs with Edmundo Arias’ orchestra. When I
first heard it some years ago, it captured me straight away.
As a bonus I added 6 extra songs by Orquesta de Edmundo Arias.

tracks;

1 Alfredo Gutierrez y sus Estrellas – La banda borracha
2 Amparito Jimenez – Pepe
3 Edmundo Arias y su Orquesta – Ligia
4 Sarita Lascarro – Quiero amanecer
5 Noel Petro – Cabeza de hacha
6 Antonio Gonzalez G. – Playa blanca
7 Lita Nelson – Algo se me va
8 Orquesta Sonolux – Diciembre azul
9 Cristóbal Pérez – La negra Celina
10 Gladys Viera – Suave
11 Corraleja 71 – La pollera colora
12 Super Combo ‘Los Tropicales’ – Cumbia sobre el mar

bonus tracks

13 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – Atlantico
14 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – Juanita bonita
15 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – El mecanico
16 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – La luna y el pescador
17 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – Alma quibdoseña
18 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – Cumbia sobre el mar

Ain’t much music in the world that makes me happy like cumbia.
This is a selection of Colombian cumbias, originally released
on Discos Fuentes. This one was made in cooperation with
Mexican label ECO, Mexico is a cumbia loving country.
Some time ago, our collegue Yoyo from ‘listentoyourears’
launched an album with practically the same cover, but
different title and partly different songs. So get this
LP, play it out loud, and forget about winter !

P.S. I found out I forgot to rename track 11, it must be
track 06 in fact, sorry for the mistake.

tracks;

1 Enrique Bofante – Soledad
2 C. Pompeyo – Gaita Colombiana
3 Joaquin Betín – Cumbia sampuesana
4 Luis Pérez – La morena encarnacion
5 Climaco Sarmiento – Cumbia sabrosa
6 Pasqual Rovira – Cumbia del monte
7 José Cáceres – Suena la timba
8 César Castro – Cumbia sambranera
9 E. Guillén – Noche de estrellas
10 Calixto Ochoa – Cumbia campesina

Today I thought I’d post us some Colombian music. ‘Navidad Negra’
which I addad as a bonustrack is a good example of music they
play in Colombia with Christmas. Pedro Laza is the man who wrote
lots of such songs. On ‘El güiro’ vocals by Daniel Santos, on ‘La
cosecha de mujeres’ vocals by José Maria Peñaranda.
On ‘Cumbia en el monte’ vocals by Pascual Rovira, on ‘Navidad Negra’
vocals by Tito Cortes. On ‘La calle 13’ and ‘La negra caliente’
vocals by Crescencio Gamacho.
As for me, I can play this type of music all year through, such
happy sound should be for always.

tracks;

1 El tachuelo
2 La rabadilla
3 El San Anterano
4 La champeta
5 Playa blanca
6 Aurora
7 Mosaico
8 Puya Bayunquera
9 Tu recuerdo
10 Las mañanitas

– Bonustracks;

11 Navidad negra
12 La negra caliente
13 Cumbia en el monte
14 El güiro
15 La boquillera
16 La cosecha de mujeres
17 La calle 13

Colombian acordeonist Anibal Velásquez is back at GG with a rare
album on a Venezolan label; Pop DCM. I found this one in Paris
on my last visit. It contains 12 great songs that will make
you dance across the room. One of my biggest Colombian idols.

tracks;

1 Ojos verdes
2 La maestranza
3 Linda Catirita
4 Coqueto de agua
5 Noche Sabanera
6 A Maracaibo
7 El resucitado
8 La tranca
9 Mejor que te vayas
10 Fiesta de la Chinita
11 El pachanguero
12 El ron con con

This is one of the greatest Merengue singers and he comes
out on one of the greatest labels. Discos Fuentes de Medellin
Colombia brought out many albums by greats like Joseito Mateo.
Very hard to find some good background information.
Merengue like it’s meant to be.

tracks;

1 La secretaria
2 La yerbita
3 Quisqueya
4 Merengue yeye
5 La justicia
6 Picolina
7 Pa’ lante y pa’ trás
8 La fiesta de los monos
9 Festival de merengues
10 Agarralo que eso es tuyo
11 Un domingo sin ti

This, probably late 60’s, LP by Alfredo Gutierrez was a lucky find
on my last recordhunt. I am a big fan of Alfredo who is one of the
Colombian heroes that made his fame in the legendary ‘Corraleros
de Majagual’. One of the country’s most important Cumbia/Vallenato
bands of the 60’s. Alfredo Gutierrez is one of the great instrumental
virtuosos of Vallenato. Enjoy this music with his pumping bass,
percussion that sounds like they use pots and pans, and ofcourse
the great Alfredo Gutierrez on acordeon and vocals.

tracks;

1 La cañaguatera
2 La choza
3 Lupita
4 La hija del millonario
5 Mis vacaciones
6 La misma pendejá
7 Pobre Valencia
8 Te juro
9 Ojos verdes
10 Papel quemado
11 Tu partida
12 Landys