Chirimía

  

La Contundencia
Con Calentura
Música Del Pacífico Colombiano
2008

Tracks:

01. Fiesta San Pacheca
02. Kilele
03. Zukunducu
04. A mi es que me ven
05. Mosaico pacífico
06. Mosaico callejero
07. Ya vengo mamá
08. El embrujo de Inés
09. La balsa
10. San Pacheando
11. No era perfume, era mancua
12. El palo
13. El hombre na ma
14. Mi abuelo

Personnel:

LEONIDAS VALENCIA: Director, Arreglista y Piano.
OSWALDO KLINGER BRAHAM: Vocal
RAFAEL CORDOBA: Vocal
ALBERTO SALAZAR: Vocal
CONSTANTINO HERRERA LEWIS: Bajo
LUIS GERMAN GARCIA PINO: Saxofón Alto
DIRCEU TORRES: Saxofón Tenor
ALEXIS RENTERIA: Bombardino
DARWIN GUTIERREZ: Bombardino
ABEL MURILLO: Tambora
YUDSON MONTEALEGRE: Redoblante
JOSE LUIS PEREA: Congas
LEONIDAS VALENCIA PEÑA: Platillos
TOMAS DOMINGO MORENO: Clarinete

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This musical group founded in 1985 as classical instrumental shawm, consisting of wind and percussion instruments: a clarinet, a saxophone, a tuba or flugelhorn, a drum, a snare drum and cymbals. These musicians were founders of  La Contundencia: Salamandra Oscar (RIP). (Clarinet), Neiva J. Moreno Becerra (saxophone); Leonidas Valencia Valencia (Euphonium), Abel Murillo Mosquera (drums), Wilson Cuesta Hoyos (Drummer) and Carlos Borromeo Cuesta (cymbals). In the beginning, the group performs the traditional rhythms of the Colombian Pacific and accompanies the dance groups of the department, patron saint festivities enlivened various peoples of the Chocó and participates in festivals, fairs and concerts. Since 1994, made the assembly of some folk songs sung with Américo Murillo and the course of the famous composers of picaresque lyrics Eyda Maria Caicedo Osorio (RIP). In 1995 it came time to record. "FIESTA San Pacho" had an immediate positive response in Quibdo and then throughout the Colombian Pacific, with songs like: Man Na 'Ma, Kilele and Etelvina, among others. La Contundencia has participated with major composers such as Zully produccuiones Murillo, William KLINGER, Octavio Panesso, Hipólito Pallares, Petronio Mosquera, Eyda Maria Caicedo Osorio, Augusto Lozano, John Bueno, Américo Murillo, etc. In 1997 La Contundencia received invitation to participate in the first Pacific Music Festival "Petronio Alvarez" in Cali, which would open the door to full recognition in the area above. In 1997 he won first place and in 1998 was declared out of competition. Also, the sample of Afro-Colombian identity by the Chirimía the strength, as the body of the ancient legacy authoritative expositor of African Culture in Colombia, has been staged in Bogota on other sites such as the Planetarium, the auditorium Lion Greiff National University, Gallery Café and Books, Bankruptcy singing, etc.. La Contundencia Orchestra has had the opportunity to switch on important stages with artists of national and international renown such as the Choco Horta (Puerto Rico), La Factoria (Panama), Luisito Carrión, Gilberto Santarosa, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Oscar Leon D, Pit Conde Rodriguez, David Pabon, Maelo Ruiz, Rey Ruiz, Victor Manuel, Grupo Gale, Grupo Bahia del Pacifico, Grupo Niche, Orquesta Guayacan, Jimmy Saa etc.

 

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Chirimía (Spanish) is a Spanish term for a type of oboe, and in English is used to refer to various primitive oboes found in Latin America, based on instruments introduced during Spanish colonization...

 

The best-known music of the Chocó is the lively brass band music called chirimía. The chirimía band features homemade bass and snare drums, cymbals, euphonium (a small tuba) and one or two clarinets, and in its older version, reed flutes as wind instruments.

 

>Historia de la chirimia<

  

 

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Sabor Y Tumbao

  

Pacífico Colombiano
Music adventures in Afro-Colombia
2008
 
Tracks:

01. Markitos y La Sabrosura de Buenaventura - Linda Porteña
02. Grupo Saboreo - Homenaje a Petronio
03. Grupo Socavon - Homenaje A Justino
04. Grupo Bahía - Cantaré
05. Choc Quib Town - Somos Pacíficos
06. Peregoyo y su combo Vacaná - La iguana
07. Pacho Peña y su Chirimia - Las brisas del Chocó
08. Liliana Montes - Kilele
09. La Revuelta - La oya
10. La Contundencia - La Quitamarido
11. Grupo Naidy - Adios Guapi
12. Alfonso 'El Brujo' Córboda - El Piloto
13. F.P. Barrio Nuevo - La Camaliona
14. Markitos y La Sabrosura de Buenaventura - El caso del Vencedor

  

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"Pacífico Colombiano" is a compilation that showcases authentic Afro-Colombian bands (with clarinets, euphonium, brass pans, snare drums, tambora or large bombo bass drums). The tracks on the record were all taken from local productions on the Pacific coast between 1998 and 2008 and aptly illustrate the growth of characteristic Pacific sounds of currulao, marimba and chirimia.

The Pacific coast of Colombia is filled with the sounds of the African marimbas, 6/8 rhythms, Afro-Colombian brasses, ancestral chants. This album offers a tantalizing glimpse at a cross-section of rural and urban music from older and younger generations with the marimba threading throughout the album like a musical snake.
  

  

Colombia is a land blessed with a rich variation of musical tradition. Well known to the international world for its cumbia, vallenata and salsa from the Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast has remained a well kept secret until now. In the past decade in Colombia itself Pacific music has made significant inroads into the national music culture as a new generation of musicians and producers carry on the traditions of pioneering musicians. These are all featured on Pacifico Colombiano.

Otrabanda (music from the other side of here and now and then) Records is proud to introduce this fantastic music to an international (world) music audience. This album offers a tantalizing glimpse at a cross-section of rural and urban music from older and younger generations from the cities of Buenaventura and Cali and the Chocó region with the marimba threading throughout the album like a musical snake. The tracks on the record were all taken from local productions on the Pacific coast between 1998 and 2008 and aptly illustrate the growth and development of its recording industry and characteristic Pacific sounds of currulao, marimba and chirimia (the Afro-Colombian fanfare).

The Pacific coast of Colombia breathes the spirit of Africa - filled with the sounds of the African marimba, 6/8 rhythms, Afro-Colombian Fanfare, ancestral chants. The first African to arrive on the Pacific coast was not short on ingenuity: he made his marimba from hardwood palm timber; achira seeds were used to fill the guazás (the Pacific maraca). The wood was then used to create the drum family: bombos or tambora drums (for striking and singing) and cununo drums ( 'male' cununo, largest version of this drum, for rhythmic variations, and the 'female' cununo, the smaller version for marking the beat, higher in tone), with cow or goat hide drumheads. The natural environment provided everything needed to create an orchestra and an African symphony, right in the middle of the Colombian rain forest. The authentic Afro-Colombian Fanfare Band - with clarinets, the euphonium, brass pans, snare drums, tambora or large bombo bass drums - this, too, came together in the Department of Chocó.

  The artists featured range from the traditional sounds of marimba, cununo drums and vocals by Grupo Socavon and Naidy, to the hip-hop crew Choc Quib Town, the self-proclaimed purveyors of the new folklore for the younger generation, the urbane hip renditions of Liliana Montes and La Revuelta with their jazzy inflections, the "voice" of the Pacific region Markitos who also sang in the legendary King of Currulao group Peregoyo, folk music kings Pacho Peña y su Chirimia, the legendary vocalist and composer Alfonso "El Brujo" Cordoba, the impudent, rollicking chirimia masters of humorous song La Contundencia and the swinging electric currulao pioneers Grupo Saboreo and Grupo Bahia. Amsterdam-based F.P. Barrio Nuevo blends the Colombian Pacific sound with elements of the Dutch Caribbean, offering a new hybrid for the future.

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Afro-Colombian Music

  

Some 16-24% of Colombia’s population (44 million) is of African descent, giving it the third largest Afro-descendent population in the western hemisphere after Brazil and the United States. This population, spread through different regions in Colombia, has created a rich variety of musical forms in Colombia. Although this dossier will focus primarily on the music of the southern Pacific coast, it is important to recognize this variety among the Colombian regions.

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more Perogoyo Y Su Combo Vacaná
  

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