Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound Of Colombia 1962 - 72

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1.	Rosendo y su Banda – Me Voy Pa’La Costa 03:57	buy track
2.	Puerto Rico y Su Combo - La Cumbia del Pescador 04:21	buy track
3.	Orquesta Sonora Curro - Patuleco 02:48	buy track
4.	Rosendo Martinez y su Orquesta - El Alegron 02:59	buy track
5.	Cantina y su Combo - Santa Marta Cumbia 03:30	buy track
6.	Lucho Bermudez y su Orquesta Sabanera - Arroz Con Coco 02:29	buy track
7.	Orlando Fortich y su Orquesta - Yolanda 03:08	buy track
8.	Homero y su Combo, Pacho Galan, La Sonora Curro - Oye Negraf 02:11	buy track
9.	Clodomiro Montes, el Super Combo Curro - Puerto Rico Zumbando 03:56	buy track
10.	Los Seven Del Swing - Silencio 03:43	buy track
11.	El Gran Romancito, El Super Combo Curro - Honolulu 04:50	buy track
12.	Crecencio Camacho, El Super Combo Curro - Santana en Salsa 06:16	buy track
13.	Clodomiro Montes, el Super Combo Curro - Traigo Salsa 03:27	buy track
14.	Lalo Orozco y su Combo Sabroso - Salsa Sabrosa 05:26	buy track
15.	Lucho Berm̼dez y Su Orquesta - Fiesta de Negritos 02:34	buy track
16.	Alex Acosta y su Orquesta - La Gozadera 02:55	buy track
17.	Los Seven Del Swing - Celoso 04:14	buy track
18.	Rufo Garrido y Su Banda - Viejos Tiempos 02:42	buy track
19.	Alex Acosta y su Orquesta - Cumbia del Monte 02:42	buy track

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Soundway set sail for the Colombian coastal town of Cartagena for their first selection of 2011. Sourced from a period when musicians effortlessly combined the swing of cumbia with the driving bass of salsa, Cartagena! un-wraps a period of musical history seldom heard beyond the tropical coast of South America.

Compiled by Roberto Gyemant with the help of Colombian resident Will ‘Quantic’ Holland, Sean Uppal & Miles Cleret, Cartagena! focuses on the extraordinary life and career of Curro Fuentes, the youngest brother of the family responsible for the Discos Fuentes label.

Cartagena! features 19 tracks and is presented on CD and double gatefold LP, designed by Lewis Heriz. Both CD and LP include detailed liner notes and offer insights from Will Holland’s interview with the late Curro Fuentes.

“Wailing clarinets and delirious, sleazy saxes evoke a sense of Benny Goodman-style swing gone wild in the tropics.”
-The Telegraph

“Cumbia compilations of this consistently high quality are pretty thin on the ground.”
-The Independent on Sunday

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released February 2, 2011

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Founded in 2002 by English DJ and Producer Miles Cleret, Soundway Records has released a number of critically acclaimed compilation albums and re-issues of African, Caribbean, Latin and Asian music from the 1950s-80s.

Since 2012, the label has also begun to issue original contemporary releases from around the world. ... more

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