Colombia Tierra Querida - Lucho Bermudez Y Su Orquesta
Maria Candela - Tamara
Yo Me Llamo Cumbia - Leonor Gonzalez Mina
La Banda Borracha - Alfredo Gutierrez Y Sus Estrellas
Fiesta En Corraleja - Chico Cervantes
La Pollera Colora - Corraleja 71
Guepa Je - Romulo Caicedo
Cumbia Sobre El Mar - Edmundo Arias
Salsipuedes - Lisandro Meza
Cumbia En Azul - Jaime Llano Gonzalez
La Negra Celina - Cristobal Perez Y Su Conjunto
Cumbiambera - Pepe Molina
Navidad Negra - Leonor Gonzalez Mina
Atlantico - Los Hispanos
La Piragua - Los Black Stars
Tolu - Guillermo Gonzalez Y Su Orquesta
Cumbia De Sal - Los Falcons
Cumbia Sampuesana - Jaime Llano Gonzalez
Danza Negra - Lucho Bermudez Y Su Orquesta
Cumbia is one of the great Latin rhythms and Colombia's most popular dance music. The Rough Guide To Cumbia highlights the golden age of this infectious dance rhythm, exploring its folkloric roots in the rural communiti... more »es of Colombia's Caribbean coast, and featuring tracks from the biggest cumbia stars. Artists include: Alberto Pacheco, Corraleja 71, Lucho Bermúdez, Lisandro Meza, Leonor González Mina, Edmundo Arias, Los Hispanos and Los Black Stars« less
Cumbia is one of the great Latin rhythms and Colombia's most popular dance music. The Rough Guide To Cumbia highlights the golden age of this infectious dance rhythm, exploring its folkloric roots in the rural communities of Colombia's Caribbean coast, and featuring tracks from the biggest cumbia stars. Artists include: Alberto Pacheco, Corraleja 71, Lucho Bermúdez, Lisandro Meza, Leonor González Mina, Edmundo Arias, Los Hispanos and Los Black Stars
CD Reviews
Cumbia Perfect!
10/03/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The "Rough Guide to Cumbia" CD is more than I hoped for. It is absolutely perfect. It is so good that the painter (from Colombia) who is painting our hallways rang my doorbell to ask about it. He wants a copy too. He danced out the door. These are some the older and great performers with an authenticity that is obvious. My only small complaint is the selection by Lisandro Mesa. I think he has better recordings of this song. The range of artists and forms of cumbia is extensive and, as I said, perfect."
Excellent overview of music frim Cumbia's "Golden Era"
pozole | Los Angeles, CA USA | 08/02/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"When buying the CD one realizes that this is just not another hastily-compiled Cumbia compilation. The beautiful cover art and lengthy liner notes indicate that there is some direction to the piece. The writer of the liner notes obviously knows a very good deal about cumbia in general and great songs in particular. Just about every song in here is a keeper, I especially enjoyed "La Cumbia en Azul" By Jaime Llano Gonzalez. Anyone used to traditional cumbia arrangements will be blown away by hearing his Hammond B3 ordan work. A Wonderful, democratic collection!"
FANTASTIC!
peabody2 | USA | 07/26/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I'll make it short-this is truly the best collection of authentic Cumbia out there. Well done Rough Guides! If you're interested in Latin music, you some times come upon a couple of tracks with this infectious beat and wonder where you can get more. Well, here it is! This CD has all the great Cumbia bands of the past and present. Every single track is a gem in it's self, and is guarenteed to make you dance, sing (even if you don't understand a word, like me), and feel fantastic! Buy it, you won't regret it!"
La Cumbia no esta herida!
D. Wells | Seattle, WA USA | 02/18/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is truly an excellent cumbia collection. Every song is beautifully arranged and evokes a kind of nostalgia for this "music of the coast." If you are someone who values variety in a CD compilation, however, you might want to give the samples on this amazon website a good listen before you purchase the CD. While the cumbia songs are wonderfully pure and truly representative of this fantastic music, they do sound very similar (which isn't a surprise, of course, because this is a CD of cumbia!). If you like what you hear, then you should certainly get this disc. The music is rhythmically infectious, romantic and will definitely survive many rotations in your CD player. If you enjoy this kind of music, I also have to recommend the "Colombia" CD by Putumayo and any album by Toto La Momoposina, a fantastic Colombian singer, especially "Carmelina" and "Pacanto.""
Track Listings (22) - Disc #1