Name: VERY VERY WELL
Brand: VAMPISOUL
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VERY VERY WELL

LITO BARRIENTOS / リト・バリエントス

ラテン・ブラジル・ワールドミュージック

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。

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レーベル: VAMPISOUL

国(Country): IMPORT

フォーマット: LP(レコード)

規格番号: VAMPI198

通販番号: 1007928685

発売日: 2019年08月14日

EAN: 8435008863449

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商品詳細情報

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

HIGHLIGHTS

“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.

DESCRIPTION

Colombia 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 several

Salvadorian 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 the

Arsenio 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 founder

Antonio “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

ソングリスト

Disc 1

A1. CARACOL
A2. YA VOY TONO
A3. CUMBIA QUE TE VAS DE RONDA
A4. RUBIELA
A5. CUMBIA EN DO MENOR
A6. CHARANGA PA GOZAR
B1. CUMBIA COSTENA
B2. KIJIS KONAR
B3. MOSAICO: A TU VERA / LA INDIA MOTILONA / VERY VERY WELL / DESPEINADA / FESTIVAL EN GUARARE / LA MAFAFA / LA SAMPA / NEGRITO TAPETUZA