The Original Sound of Cumbia
The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948 - 79
Soundway set sail for Colombia once again, delving deeper into the South American country’s rich musical past. Boasting 55 tracks spread over two CDs and two triple LPs, ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’ is Soundway’s definitive guide to the origins of Colombian cumbia and porro and the result of five years pain staking re-search by Will ‘Quantic’ Holland.
Disc 1 tells the story of some the earliest Colombian cumbia recorded, a genre that captured a nation, spreading from its birthplace on the Caribbean coast in land to central Colombia and the capital Bogota. Disc 2 sees the evolution of cumbia. Greats of Colombian music like Alberto Pacheco, Toño Fernandez & Anibal Velasquez brought the music forward, bringing new influences and instruments to the genre. What had once been considered the music of the underclasses had risen up as the new sound of a nation.
After five years of becoming slowly submerged in Colombian musical culture, learning the accordion, setting up a band and a studio, and scouring the country in search it’s recorded legacy, Will ‘Quantic’ Holland (Quantic Soul Orchestra & Quantic y su Combo Barbaro) has compiled the fruits of his labour into this unique compilation that tells the story of cumbia in the years of the phonograph record’s supremacy. Along with good friend and head of Soundway Records, Miles Cletet, Will Holland has condensed hundreds of 78s, 45s and LPs into just over two and a half hours of the finest Colombian cumbia.
Both vinyl editions come with a bonus track and are limited to 1500 copies.
“The whole album is simply stunning with a superb track listing” Laurent Garnier
“These CDs put history not in the museum but firmly in the middle of the dancefloor.” The Telegraph – Pop CD of the Week
“It’s a magnificent cumbiapedia.” The Observer
“Joyful tropical madness.” MOJO
‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’ Medley by Soundway
Tracklist
Disc 1 / SNDWLP032A
1. Gastón (El Isleño) con El Conjunto de Jaime Simanca – La Cumbia Está Llamando
2. Conjunto Los Rumberos – Cumbia del Puerto
3. Lucho Peréz – Judith
4. Alberto Pacheco y su Conjunto – Sembrando Café
5. Rafeal Yepes Crespo con sus Negros de la Región – Nubia en la Playa
6. Santander Flores – Capital Cebuista
7. Ruffo Garrido y su Conjunto – El Pájaro Prieto
8. Conjunto Ritmos del Caribe – La Fullera
9. Anibal Velásquez y Su Conjunto – San Jacinto
10. Orquesta Ritmos de Sabanas – Montería
11. Baldomero Urieles con Efrian Burgos y su Conjunto – Amor del Magdalena
12. Los Alegres del Valle – Samaria
13. Conjunto Martínez – Cumbia Fonsequera
14. Silvio Guzman y Conjunto Jose M. Peñaranda – Canto a Betty
15. Pedro Salcedo y su Orquesta – La Vaca y El Caporal
16. Los Alegres Bucaneros – Cumbia Bucanera
17. Gildardo Montoya y Conjunto Los Rumberos – Fabiola
18. Guillermo Munoz y Conjunto Típico del Magdalena – Cumbia de Todos
19. Cresencio Salcedo – Me Quedo con el Viejo
20. Lalito y Conjunto Colombia – Flores de Colombia
21. Nacho Paredes con Los Vaqueros Sabaneros – Dulce Lamento
22. Los Ases del Ritmo – La Margarita
23. Emiro Caicedo y su Combo – Los Cumbiamberos
24. Hugo Racedo y su Conjunto – Cumbia del Magdalena
25. Trio Serenata – Cumbia Sobre El Mar
26. Los Indígenas – Sangre Goajira
27. Toño Fernandez – La Muerte
28. Los Hermanitos Ferreyra – Cumbia del Mar
Vinyl bonus track
Angel Martinez con Los Sabaneros – Cumbia Alegre
Disc 2 / SNDWLP032B
1. Betopey – Cumbia del Carnaval
2. Conjunto Miramar – Reina de Cumbias
3. Los Cumbiamberos de Chorrera – La Millera
4. Andrés Landero – Rosa y Mayo
5. Los Tigres con Morgan Blanco – La Culebra
6. La Cumbia Soledeña – Tambo, Tambo
7. Jaime Simanca y sus Fandangueros – Cumbia Negra
8. Aniceto Molina y su Conjunto – Cumbia Candela
9.Banda Bajera de San Pelayo – Descarga en Cumbia
10. Alberto Pacheco – Guayabita Colorá
11. Banda 11 de Enero de Murillo – La Cachona
12. Lucho Campillo y su Conjunto – Rastrillando
13. Carlos Román – El 4 y 5
14. Banda 2da de Laguneta Córdoba – Tracionera
15. Satanás y su Grupo – Cumbia de La Montaña
16. Toño Fernández – La Guacharaca
17. Lucho Yepez – La Gaita del Pato
18. El Pholy Combo – El Porro es Hermano De La Cumbia
19. Grupo Costa Brava – A Baranoa
20. Elías Morón y su Conjunto Vallenato – Playas Embrujadas
21. Chico Cervantes – Cumbia Colombia
22. Anibal Velásquez y su Conjunto – Cumbia Bogotana
23. Alfonso Puerta y su Conjunto – Pescadores del Mar
24. Miguel Durán – Elionora
25. Celia Estremor y su Grupo de Baile Cantao – El Secuestro
26. Hermanos Tuiran – Lluvia
27. Unknown – El Niño Llora
Vinyl Bonus Track
Heber Macias – Cumbia Linda
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