Corazon Caribeno - Zumbao

Titel : Corazon Caribeno

Artiest(en) : Zumbao

Genre : Salsa

Medium : CD

Jaar : 2004

Label : Merusa

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Zumbao - Corazon Caribeno

Another example of the cultural consequences of globalization is one of the spiciest and hottest bands now playing `Venezuelan salsa:` Zumbao. This band from Marseilles, France, founded by Simon Bolzinger in 1991, boasts an international all-star lineup. With the addition of singer Rafael Quintero in 1997, the group settled into its current profile and identity. Tours in France, Venezuela and Mexico followed, and in 1999 Venezuela Canta was recorded, of which Corazón Caribeno forms a slightly altered remix.

And if a skeptic asks: "What is this Venezuelan `salsa,` anyway?" we might anwer that - apart from the obvious lyrical references, and the typical Venezuelan humor - it is the incorporation of local styles, such as the parranda, sangueo and calipso, and local instruments, like the cumaco drums, and - more broadly - the openness to fusion and crossover, exploring the limits of jazz, salsa, and world music, cross-fertilizing in the process.

Here`s something that`s heading into battle as one of the better albums of the year. Direct from Marseilles (!), the group uses Cuban timba, and a bunch of music from around Venezuela as a basis for their sound. It opens with a timba version of an old Venezuelan calypso and moves through a traditional, then updated pilon, and onto a version of Monk`s "Epistrophy." All this sounds like dilettante`s work, but it`s not: the music, hard and rhythmic, makes the band sound like a group that has learned how to reach audiences by playing on the road. Rafael Quintero, the lead singer is either Cuban, or does a good imitation, and if this had been released from Cuba, it`d be yet another interesting timba based dance record, with scope and ambition. It makes you go "ummm..." Highly Recommended. (review by Descarga)

1. Coco cacao

2. Excusez-moi mesié(el malandro ilustrado)

3. Que buena te estas poniendo

4. Cuando

5. Pilón (tradicional)

6. Pilón (moderno)

7. Con el perro y el gato

8. Venezuela canta

9. Corazón caribeno

10. Buscandote como un loco

11. Epistrophy

12. Good bye pork pie hat

13. Buscandote como un loco (remix)

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