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Toto La Momposina
Pacanto
Genres: International Music, Pop, Latin Music

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Pacant? - Tot? La Momposina, Bazanta, S.
2. Goza Plinio Sierra - Tot? La Momposina, Fl?rez, Pablo
3. Mil? (El Hombre Borracho) - Tot? La Momposina, Bazanta, S.
4. Acomp??ala - Tot? La Momposina, Bazanta, Sonia
5. La Ripi? - Tot? La Momposina, Traditional
6. La Cumbia Est? Herida - Tot? La Momposina, Fl?rez, Pablo
7. Chambac? - Tot? La Momposina, Penaloza
8. Rep?rala - Tot? La Momposina, Bazanta, S.
9. Pozo Brillante - Tot? La Momposina, Traditional
10. As? Lo Grita Tot? - Tot? La Momposina, Hernandez
11. La Paloma - Tot? La Momposina, Traditional
12. Oye Manita - Tot? La Momposina, Bazanta, S.
13. Bozaa y Media (La Acabaci?n) - Tot? La Momposina, Mendoza, Manuel "Ma
14. El Porro Maganguele?o - Tot? La Momposina, Traditional
15. Mami Wata - Tot? La Momposina, Bazanta, S.

CD Details

All Artists: Toto La Momposina
Title: Pacanto
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: World Village USA
Release Date: 4/9/2002
Album Type: Import
Genres: International Music, Pop, Latin Music
Styles: South & Central America, Colombia, Tropical, Cumbia
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 093047000522, 8427721157714

Synopsis

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The cumbia is Colombia's greatest musical export, and vocalist Totó la Momposina is its most accomplished ambassador. This CD abounds with indigenous gouache gourds and flutelike gaitas, Spanish guitars, and African tambor/bombo drums. With the addition of the Afro-derived marimbula thumb piano and Papa Noel's Congolese guitar fills, Momposina's music is a beautiful blend of old and new worlds. The tracks comprise cumbia classics and original compositions. The horn-driven "Reparala" swings with a Cuban flavor, while the midtempo "Acompanala" rings with heavenly harmonies from Momposina and her vocal chorus. "Chambacu" is an awesome ancestral voice/percussion tribute to a historic black quarter of Cartagena de Indias, and "Bozaa y Media (La Acabacion)" is an instrumental laced with Amerindian woodwinds. This passionately performed and beautifully recorded work will do for the cumbia what Astor Piazzolla's Tango: Zero Hour did for the tango. --Eugene Holley Jr.

CD Reviews

"Lindo que suena el tambor..." An outstanding disc

cardinho | Madrid | 11/09/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is not just the best Latin-American disc of the year but is the best of any genre. The fusion of Latin rhythms and African instruments and African rhythms and Latin instruments will blow you away! There is great depth here. I have lent this disc to several friends and all have come back to me amazed at the quality as all went in with low expectations. "La cumbia esta herida" is outstanding, "La Ripla" is a rattling instrumental dominated by the great mix of the tambores and gaitas. "Acompanala" is a soft and beautiful number and the switch 4 minutes into the beguiling "Chambacu" is SURE to blow you away. Buy this disc and I assure you, you will not be disappointed."

Colombian roots music

Enrique Torres | San Diegotitlan, Califas | 02/05/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Colombian veteran female artist Toto La Momposina is like a musical ambassador of her roots music. The integration of Cuban son and rhythms, coupled with the African influences and solidified by her native Colombian coastal music results in a stunning Latin tempo disc that is like carnival music. This is a fun album with music that is uplifting and danceable; you better have your cumbia-salsa shoes on for this one. The use of horns gives the disc moments of Latin jazz intonations but her voice throughout carries the disc into the playful pachanga(party) mode. The songs are consistently around the five minute mark so there is plenty of room for musical improvisation and frisky interludes. The use of guitar helps establish the marriage between old and new world music. "Mile " (El hombre borracho) is a frolicksome song that employs the techniques mentioned with good results. Excellent songs include the buoyant "La Cumbia Esta Herida" that is heavy percussive with thumping horns throughout,"Oye Manita" that is heavily influenced and driven by Caribbean rhythms,"Asi Lo Grita Toto" is spiced with indigenous flutes and call and response vocals that recall ancient cultures before the Europeans and "Acompanala" that is a sweet song with African sensibilities. This is a good disc for your world music collection. If you like the music of Celia Cruz(she sounds a little like her) or Colombian music than you will probably like this disc. Get this CD for a musical journey that meets where the old world and new world merge."