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VAMPI SOUL がおくるコロンビアの老舗レーベル「FUENTES」復刻シリーズの最新作は、カリブの風来坊 LITO BARRIENTOS が1965年にコロンビアでドロップした『VERY VERY WELL』が登場。SKA CUBANOのカバーでも人気、まさに60年代コロンビアのクンビアを代表する一曲と言っても過言ではない "Cumbia En Do Menor" はコチラに収録。マストバイです。ラテン鈴木Very Very Well by Lito Barrientos y su orquestaHIGHLIGHTS“Very Very Well” was the first album for Discos Fuentes by Salvadorian Rafael “Lito” Barrientos and his tropical orchestra, recorded in 1965.While in Colombia in the mid-1960s, he found great success with his assimilation of styles like cumbia and porro but also included Cuban charanga, Puerto Rican bomba and Mexican corrido in his repertoire, making for a very diverse selection of moods and flavors.Presented in facsimile artwork and pressed on 180g vinyl.Part of Vampisoul’s reissue series of classic Fuentes LPs.DESCRIPTIONColombia spawned several big band tropical orchestras in the 1930s and 40s, perhaps the most famous being those of Lucho Bermúdez, Pacho Galán, Edmundo Arias, Pedro Laza and Crescencio Camacho. Their wall of sound combining a battery of brass, woodwinds and reeds, multiple vocalists and prominent percussion was overwhelming and eventually became all the rage with middle and upper class audiences from the dance hall to the hotel ballroom, from the Victrola to the radio. This formula was a match made in heaven, combining elements of the big urban swing jazz bands of the USA with the typical rhythms of Colombia’s tropical coastal regions and other Caribbean locales like Cuba and Puerto Rico. Into this scene came Rafael “Lito” Barrientos (1915-2008), an orchestra leader and trombonist originally from Armenia,El Salvador who began by playing the marimba salvadoreña in a “costumbrista” folkloric band in his home country, but who soon took up the trombone and the conductor’s baton and eventually found international success by adopting, and adapting, the previously mentioned big band tropical format. Having founded his orchestra in 1945 (inspired by the big bands of Glenn Miller and Pérez Prado as much as by Lucho Bermúdez and the like), Barrientos traveled throughout North, Central and South America, picking up influences and musicians along the way, staying for a fruitful period in Colombia, where he recorded the extremely popular LP “Very Very Well” for Medellín’s Discos Fuentes in 1965, following that up with “Ritmos Costeños” (released by Fuentes as well), but debuted in Colombia some time earlier with “Pimienta” on the Barranquilla-based Tropical label. Significantly, Barrientos was the composer of that perennially popular classic of tropical music, ‘Cumbia en do menor’ (“Very Very Well” contains the definitive version) and if he had achieved nothing else, this accomplishment might perhaps have been enough to enshrine him in the annals of cumbia history forever. But the award-winning Barrientos also composed hits such as ‘Son guanaco’ and ‘Pájaro picón’ and frequently experimented with new sounds, never dedicating himself solely to the cumbia. He was also an active member and co-founder of severalSalvadorian musicians’ rights societies (UGASAL and SACIM) as well as the head of his own record label, Discolito (founded in 1961).While in Colombia in the mid-1960s, he found great success with his assimilation of styles like cumbia and porro, but also included Cuban charanga, Puerto Rican bomba and Mexican corrido in his repertoire, making for a very diverse selection of moods and flavors, a recipe that was sure to satisfy the eclectic tastes of his international audiences. In addition to ‘Cumbia en do menor’ and several other hot Colombian numbers such as ‘Rubiela’ by Los Golden Boy’s guitarist Pedro Jairo Garcés, as well as ‘Cumbia Costeña’ and the humorous ‘Ya voy Toño’, there is a fine rendition of theArsenio Rodríguez composition ‘Kijis Konar’, a double-entendre tongue-twister made famous by Puerto Rican trombonist and singer Mon Rivera. The record also includes the title song ‘Very Very Well’, penned by Discos Fuentes founderAntonio “Toño” Fuentes and originally recorded by Carlos Román y La Sonora Vallenata. Barrientos’ version comes across as a Bill Haley & His Comets-style 50s rock & roll tune and is folded into an engagingly eclectic medley of popular songs that close out the album (which range from Los Corraleros del Majagual and Alfredo Gutiérrez’s famous interpretation of Panamanian Dorindo Cárdenas’ ‘Festival en Guararé’ to ‘Despeinada’, 1963 twist tune by Argentine rock & roller Palito Ortega).Pablo Yglesias aka DJ Bongohead

※本作は発売中止となりました。イタリアのONDAS TROPICAISレーベルからコロンビアが誇る伝説のレーベル Disco Fuentes 諸作品再発シリーズがスタート!!第二弾はカリブの風来坊 LITO BARRIENTOS が1965年にコロンビアでドロップした『VERY VERY WELL』が登場。SKA CUBANOのカバーでも人気、まさに60年代コロンビアのクンビアを代表する一曲と言っても過言ではない "Cumbia En Do Menor" はコチラに収録。マストバイです。ラテン鈴木Rafael "Lito" Barrientos was one of the most famous 60’s musicians out El Salvador. After taking part in various South American orchestras (he lived in Costa Rica, Panama, and Venezuela) Don Lito arrived in Colombia in 1965 and gave birth to one of the biggest selling releases of the iconic Discos Fuentes label, Very Very Well. Led by the “Cumbia en do menor”,  probably the most famous Cumbia hit ever, the album had enormous success in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, and even in the USA, thanks to the beautiful combination of the sounds of cumbia, porro and charanga with classic rock and roll.Limited edition of 500 copies.【イタリア ONDAS TROPICAIS レーベル Disco Fuentes 再発シリーズ】・PEDRO LAZA Y SUS PELAYEROS『NAVIDAD NEGRA』・LITO BARRIENTOS Y SU ORQUESTA『VERY VERY WELL』・MARIO ALLISON Y SU COMBO『DE FIESTA!』  B3メドレー楽曲リスト1.A Tu Vera2.La India Motilona3.Very Very Well4.Despeinada5.Festival En Guarare6.La Mafafa7.La Sampa'8.Negrito Tapetuza