Bandas Sinaloenses Musica Tambora – Various Artists / ARH CD-7048

Description

CD 7048

Historic recordings of the exhilarating brass band music from the remote state of Sinaloa on the Pacific coast of Mexico. This music is no staid oom-pah music but fast churning party music full of intricate rhythms complex harmonies and bright brassy timbres.

1. El Sinaloense – Banda Los Guamuchilenos De Culiacan
2. Viva Mi Desgracia – Banda Los Guamuchilenos De Culiacan
3. El Guango – Banda Los Gumauchilenos De Culiacan
4. Ingrato Dolor – Band Los Guamuchilenos De Culiacan
5. Culiacan – Banda Los Guamuchilenos De Culiacan
6. La India Bonita – Banda Tipica De Mazatlan
7. Arriba San Marcos – Banda Tipica De Mazatlan
8. Dos Con El Alma – Banda Tipica De Mazatlan
9. El Callejero – Conjunto Mazatlan De Cruz Lizarraga
10. Caballo Bayo – Banda Tipica De Mazatlan
11. Los Papaquis – Banda El Limon
12. Mazatlan – Banda El Limon
13. El Costeno – Banda Regional Sinaloa
14. Mi Gusto Es – Banda Regional Sinaloa
15. Que Milagro Chaparrita – Banda La Costena
16. Sobre Las Olas – Banda Los Mochis De Porfirio Amarillas
17. La Nina Perdida – Banda Los Mochis De Porfirio Amarillas
18. Sonora Querida – Banda Los Tamazulas De Culiacan
19. El Quelite – Banda Los Tamazulas De Culiacan
20. Marcha Zacatecas – Banda De Mocorito De Nilo Gallardo
21. Carmen – Banda De Mocorito De Nilo Gallardo
22. El Novillo Despuntado – Banda Los Escamillas
23. Juan Colorado – Banda Los Escamillas
24. Mexicano Hasta Las Cachas – Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizarraga

REVIEW

“Something went wonderfully awry when brass-band oom-pah arrived in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa.  Playing instruments first imported by German merchants more than a century ago the Sinaloans exaggerated everything: the clarinets played higher the trombones wiggled their notes more the drumrolls started later and entered with a disruptive flourish…[This CD] collects the first recordings of bandas which weren’t made until the 1950s.  By then all the familiar ingredients were in place and little has changed in the ways bandas laugh and lurch through their songs.”

-John Pareles The New York Times

CD 7048
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