A revolutionary album full of experimentation and cross-fertilization with a sound unlike that of any other tropical record before or after, which could only have come from the Caribbean region of Colombia and the fertile mind of the band’s leader, Alfredo Guti\u00e9rrez El Rebelde del Acorde\u00f3n. What makes this record unique and a highly sought-after collector’s piece among DJs and aficionados of Colombian music are the innovative arrangements (by Guti\u00e9rrez and his saxophone-playing friends Nacor Bar\u00f3n Garc\u00e9s and Demetrio Pipe Guar\u00edn) that mix a sax section with electric organ, piano and accordion, and the fact that it contains a killer version of Javier V\u00e1zquez’s hard salsa tune ‘Esa mulata’ as well as salsa versions of Guti\u00e9rrez’s earlier vallenato hits ‘Los carasucias’ and ‘Bajo el palo ‘e mango’. In addition, there is an interesting hybrid between the boogaloo and the joropo (‘La mezcla’ by pianist Edel Manrique) and a fun cover of Dominican accordionist Angel Viloria’s 1950 gem ‘Yo bail\u00e9 con Josefina’ plus another hardcore salsa burner (‘Salsa de monte adentro’) and a flamenco\/salsa hybrid (‘Caribe’), both written by Poli Mart\u00ednez, who used to sing with Climaco Sarmiento. The record kicks off with some local coste\u00f1o flavor with the paseo ‘Perd\u00f3name Leandro’ and on side two the porro ‘Toro barcino’. The album cover, though tongue in cheek, must have also caused a stir, as it calls to mind Cuban revolutionaries and combines images of violence and music in a provocatively satirical way. Pablo Yglesias aka DJ Bongohead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A revolutionary album with a sound unlike that of any other tropical record before or after which could only have come from the Caribbean region of Colombia and the fertile mind of the band’s leader, Alfredo Guti\u00e9rrez. What makes this record unique and a highly sought-after collector’s piece are the innovative arrangements that mix a sax section with electric organ, piano and accordion, and its killer version of Javier V\u00e1zquez’s hard salsa tune ‘Esa mulata’. The rest of the album has more hot salsa, boogaloo and descarga, plus local flavors like paseo and porro and even a Dominican merengue. Presented in facsimile artwork and pressed on 180g vinyl. Part of a new Vampisoul reissue series of classic LPs from Colombia’s Codiscos and its sublabels such as Zeida and Coste\u00f1o.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24355,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[195,193,206],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44980","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-colombia-en","7":"product_cat-latin-en","8":"product_cat-salsa-en","9":"product_shipping_class-default","10":"pa_formato-lp-en","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/44980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=44980"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=44980"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=44980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}