Description
2xLP + 16-page Booklet
'The Coastal Invasion’ highlights the golden age of big band cumbia and the maestro who is often seen as Colombia’s most influential composer, Lucho Bermudez. This compilation contains a selection of the music of Lucho Bermúdez y su Orquesta recorded during the years that they lived and worked in Medellín, probably the best work the orchestra ever recorded.
'The Coastal Invasion’ highlights the golden age of big band cumbia and the maestro who is often seen as Colombia’s most influential composer, Lucho Bermudez.
Bermudez was a key figure who modernised the tropical music of Colombia's Caribbean coast. At the beginning of the 20th century, this music was largely looked down on. Bermudez changed all that by injecting a modern, jazzy big band sound to the Afro-Colombian sounds from his native region.
The infectious Afro-Amerindian dance rhythms of Lucho Bermudez y su Orquesta took over the elite nightclubs of Bogota and Medellin and from there, his music spread all over Latin America. For many Colombians, the songs of Lucho Bermudez and his wife and starlet singer Matilde Diaz represent the sound of their nation.
This compilation contains a selection of the music of Lucho Bermúdez y su Orquesta recorded during the years that they lived and worked in Medellín, probably the best work the orchestra ever recorded.
TRACKLIST
A1. Mi Cumbia
A2. Mi Pueblo
A3. Colombia Tierra Querida
A4. Nelly
A5. A Orillas Del Chicagua
A6. Gaita De Las Flores
B1. Fiesta De Negritos
B2. Que Caña Dulce
B3. Roberto Mendez
B4. Tambores De Chambacu
B5. Prende La Vela
B6. Santa Marta
C1. Danza Negra
C2. Gaiteando
C3. Arroz Con Coco
C4. Plinio Guzman
C5. Navidad Negra
D1. Tolu
D2. Taganga
D3. La Buchaca
D4. Irma
D5. Mi Cumbia (alternative version)
