Dame Cafe (LP)

Beschrijving

Los Gavilanas de la Casta – Dame Café, 2025 Vampisoul vinyl reïssue from this 1965 album, originally released by Discos Fuentes, Colombia, 1965

CARA 1:
1. Dame Café
2. Negra Querida
3. Pues No Da Pa Mas
4. Pitimban
5. Cumbia Milagrosa
6. Galerazamba
CARA 2:
1. Jose Dolores
2. Los Gavilanes
3. La Preguntadera
4. Edith
5. Charanguera
6. Se Te Ve

A highly sought after cult classic within Mexico’s “sonidero” street DJ culture, Dame Café is the debut album from Los Gavilanes De La Costa, a short-lived cumbia band from the northern coast of Colombia comprised of musician/composers José Castro, Eusebio Campillo, Policarpo Calle, Esmelín Zambrano, and others. Released on the influential Discos Fuentes label, the album features a mix of traditional “tropical music” rhythms like vallenato and cumbia, alongside more experimental beats such as paseaíto and pasaje. The music has an inviting rural quality to it with accordion melodies, percussion rhythms, and call-and-response vocals setting a lively street scene.