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Nuestras Mejores Cumbias
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Nuestras Mejores Cumbias --- 1989
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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Videos
Lizandro Meza mi carrito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-XWE79cb5c
La Arepa - Gabriel "Rumba" Romero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BePRK6KUiI
alfredo gutierrez - el palito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg_rNlrlTD8
LISANDRO MEZA - Los lamentos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Hka_sRqjI
Alfredo Gutierrez - LA FALDA CORTITA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSWY1lqlVc
LISANDRO MEZA - Estas pillao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0O9b-ZcYI
gabriel romero - el chinchorro
Tracklist
Mi Carrito
La Arepa
El Palito
Agüïta De Coco
Los Lamentos
La Falda Cortita
Entre Dicho Y Dicho
Estas Pillao
El Chinchorro
Recordando
Hijos Na'ma
La Napa
El Pinchaito