Eens in de zoveel tijd duikt er zo'n juweeltje op, zo een als deze. Een compilatie van Colombiaanse bodem met een rijtje pure en pretentieloze muzikanten. Niet de meest bekende namen maar stuk voor stuk jongens naar mijn hart. De vallenato's op deze plaat zijn precies wat ik zoek in deze stroming, luister naar de[...]

Goodmorning groovers, what have we got cooking for you today ? Michi Sarmiento and his Combo Bravo are here to make you dance around the room. On this album they combine various styles. Guaguancó, Paseo, Son Mozambique, Cumbia, Bomba, Cumbelé, Descarga and Paseaíto are brought easily by this great band. I am crazy about the[...]

You liked volume one a lot so I guess volume two will gain some happy listeners as well. This lp contains a couple of huge hits to my humble opinion. Track # one for instance with the great Lucho Pérez is a straight killer. But off course Pedro Laza's 'Navidad Negra' and Calixto Ochoa's 'Recordando[...]

I am quite sure I posted some 5 or 6 Fruko lp's in the past but somehow they got lost, really do not understand how. One way or the other, I'll bring them back straight away. This is 'Fruko - El Violento' from 1973 on Discos Fuentes off course and with his buddies Wilson Saoko[...]

From Puerto Rico we have us another album by the great Chuíto. He performs a style called 'jíbaro' of which we had several other lp's. The most famous artists in this genre must be 'Ramito', 'Chuíto', 'Odilio Gonzalez' and 'German Rosario'. I love the pure and honest instrumentation in this type of sound, the years in[...]

If I am not mistaking, this is the 8th Ramito here at the GG so far. Volume 6 brings us some songs we've seen on one of the other LP's but also some new ones. That is new to us of course, the exact year of release is unknown to me, we'd have to guess.[...]

Flor Morales Ramos was his name, they called him 'Ramito'. Ramito was a patriot like no one and wrote lots of songs about his beloved Puerto Rico. He was the most productive musician, I just found a dicography with over 150 titles, incredible. This is an album I found in a recordstore in Paris, I[...]

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[...]