Track Listing

1. Cumbia Cienaguera - Alberto Pacheco
2. Luna y el Pescador - Romulo Caicedo
3. Cumbia de Colombia - Henry Castro
4. Colombia Tierra Querida - Lucho Bermúdez y sus Orquesta
5. Maria Candela - Tamara
6. Yo Me Llamo Cumbia - Leonor González Mina
7. Banda Borracha - Alfredo Gutiérrez y sus Estrellas
8. Fiesta en Corraleja - Chico Cervantes
9. Pollera Colorá - Corraeleja 71
10. Guepa Je - Romulo Caicedo
11. Cumbia Sobre el Mar - Edmundo Arias
12. Salsipuedes - Lisandro Meza
13. Cumbia en Azul - Jaime Llano González
14. Negra Celina - Cristobal Perez y sus Conjunto
15. Cumbiambera - Pepe Molina
16. Navidad Negra - Leonor González Mina
17. Atlantico - Los Hispanos
18. Piragua - Black Stars
19. Tolu - Guillermo González y sus Orquesta
20. Cumbia de Sal - Falcons
21. Cumbia Sampuesana - Jaime Llano González
22. Danza Negra - Lucho Bermúdez y sus Orquesta

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58716 in Music
• Released on: 2000-08-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Album Description
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

Amazon.com
Cumbia is one of the world's great dance grooves. It is made up of merry guitars and accordions, torrid brass, and insistent, deep-toned drums and percussion, pounding out a lopsided, strutting 4/4 rhythm with a kick like nitroglycerine. Cumbia is the result of three colliding cultures that settled in Colombia at different times. Indigenous peoples were followed by the Spanish conquistadors, who added on Moorish influences from the sack of Granada. Finally, African slaves were brought in, and they supplied both the rhythm and the means to bring it forth. From its beginnings as a courtship dance among the slave population, cumbia gradually became the soul of the entire nation. The tunes on this compilation make it easy to understand why. They were licensed from the Sonolux label and date from the '60s through the '90s. Uniformly infectious and compulsively danceable, this is an essential party album, a good time on a disc. --Christina Roden

Customer Reviews

Cumbia Perfect!
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"
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!

Amazing!
This is my second purchase of a "Rough Guide" world music cd, and both have been stellar (the other is the Hawaiian music compilation). This cd is a delightful addition to my music collection. The music is expressive, colorful, and rhythmic, without any cheesy over-production or invasive pop-culture influences. Those of you who enjoyed Buena Vista Social Club will love this! I would highly recommend this compilation to any music fan.