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Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima
Viento De Agua
Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima
Genres: International Music, Rock, Latin Music
 
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The bomba and plena heard on this recording are the materia prima (raw material) of today's two most African Puerto Rican musical traditions. When its dynamic leader Tito Matos created the group Viento de Agua ("Wind of Wa...  more »

     
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All Artists: Viento De Agua
Title: Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima
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Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 3/23/2004
Genres: International Music, Rock, Latin Music
Style: Latin Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093074051320

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The bomba and plena heard on this recording are the materia prima (raw material) of today's two most African Puerto Rican musical traditions. When its dynamic leader Tito Matos created the group Viento de Agua ("Wind of Water"), he vowed to keep alive the "streetcorner sound" of the plena, music rooted in the lives of ordinary people. Viento de Agua Unplugged plays the stripped-down, straight-ahead version of his music, foregrounding its essence ? the sound of unbridled percussion, underscoring lyrics that proclaim local topics. In these performances by veterans of bomba and plena, Tito proves his claim that "There is no way to create if you don't have the roots." La bomba y plena escuchadas en esta grabación son la materia prima de las principales tradiciones musicales afro-puertoriqueñas del presente. Cuando su dinámico líder Tito Matos creó el grupo Viento de Agua, él prometió mantener vivo el "sonido de la esquina de la calle" de la plena, música enraizada en la vida de la gente del pueblo. Viento de Agua Unplugged interpreta la versión básica y directa de su música, asentándose en su esencia ?el sonido desenfrenado de la percusión, apoyando letras que proclaman temas locales. En estas presentaciones por veteranos de la bomba y la plena, Tito corrobora su idea de que "no se puede crear sin conocer las raíces". 12 cortes.

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Marcos | California, USA | 04/13/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)

"This album is all about authentic street Bomba y Plena. I went to the Miami calle ocho festival and this is the sound you will hear from the pleneros in the middle of the street. All the instrumentation you will hear is from drums, guiros, palitos, maracas, etc. In this CD they do away with the strings and brass so common in most puertorican music.

This is the only music still being played from Puerto Rico that was developed in the island by the african slaves and their descendants. And it is also purely from Puerto Rico, without any of the Cuban and Dominican sounds that were incorporated in the latter half of the 20th century.

If you enjoy Cuban Guaguanco, or African tribal drumming you may enjoy this CD. I also recommend it to all puertoricans interested in the african roots of their culture."