Alfredo Gutierrez, Lisandro Meza, Gabriel Romero - Nuestras Mejores Cumbias FLAC download

Tracklist

1	–Lisandro Meza	Mi carrito	3:00
2	–Gabriel Romero	La arepa	2:33
3	–Alfredo Gutierrez	El palito	3:15
4	–Grupo Tamborito	Aguïta de coco	4:00
5	–Lisandro Meza	Los Lamentos	3:20
6	–Alfredo Gutierrez	La falda cortita	3:10
7	–Gabriel Romero	Entre dicho y dicho	3:15
8	–Lisandro Meza	Estas pillao	3:55
9	–Gabriel Romero	El chinchorro	3:54
10	–Alfredo Gutierrez	Recordando	3:20
11	–Lisandro Meza	Hijos na'ma	4:00
12	–Gabriel Romero	La napa	3:20
13	–Gabriel Romero	El pinchaito	3:35

Notes

Consumer Guide Album - Robert Christgau
Nuestras Mejores Cumbias [Globo, 1989]
Where the competing Fiesta Vallenata has the imprimatur of the world-music good guys at GlobeStyle and Shanachie, this Colombian compilation comes from an RCA subsidiary--two stocking-clad gams stretch ceilingward through a field of balloons on the cover. But I swear it wasn't antiliberal tendencies that induced me to put Fiesta Vallenata's raggedy-ass polkas in the hall while carrying this jaunty, chintzy subsalsa to friends' birthday parties. It was spontaneous attraction. I've since learned that accordion-based vallenata is cowboy music turned cocaine-lord music, while clarinet-hooked cumbia is a mulatto urban style with a longer pop history, and I'm glad I chose the right side. But if the cocaine lords seize cumbia (and for all I know they already have), I bet what makes it jaunty, though maybe not what makes it chintzy, will still liven up a party. A-

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