¡Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia's Música Vallenata

In the words of GRAMMY®-winning popular singer/actor Carlos Vives, "Colombia is one of those great musical quarries of the Americas, as have been the American South, the Antilles, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina." Since the late 20th century, the music of the vallenatos - people of a small valley region of the Caribbean coast - "has best portrayed the true way of being and feeling of the Colombian people." ¡Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia’s Música Vallenata, features two dozen seasoned vallenato performers spanning three generations, playing polished renditions of the music they know best - paseos, merengues, sones, and puyas.
70 minutes, 15 tracks, 20+ page booklet

En palabras del popular cantante, actor y ganador de un GRAMMY®, Carlos Vives, "Colombia es una de las grandes canteras musicales de las Américas, como lo han sido Sudamérica, las Antillas, México, Brasil y Argentina." Desde finales del siglo XX, la música de los vallenatos - gente de un pequeño valle de la costa del Caribe - "ha retratado de la mejor manera la verdadera forma de ser y de sentir del pueblo colombiano." ¡Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia’s Música Vallenata, cuenta con dos docenas de experimentados artistas del vallenato que abarcan tres generaciones, tocando pulidas versiones de la música que mejor conocen: paseos, merengues, sones, y puyas.
70 minutos, 15 canciones, 20+ paginas de folleto

AWARDS
2008 Fan Voted Independent Music Award for Best Latin Album

VIDEOS
Inspiration behind Colombia's música vallenata.
The expressive power of música vallenata

RELATED FILM
Watch the documentary film The Accordion Kings on Smithsonian Channel. Here many of the performers on this album assemble and compete during the Vallenato Kings Festival.

Track Listing

101	A blanco y negro (In Black and White) - paseo	Riquelme Carrillo	04:44
102	A lo tuyo tú (You with What’s Yours) - merengue	Isaac Carrillo, Rafael Salas	03:51
103	Pedazo de acordeón (A Bit of Accordion) - puya	Ivo Díaz, Orangel "El Pangue" Maestre	05:35
104	Cadenas (Chains) - paseo	Ivo Díaz, Orangel "El Pangue" Maestre	04:31
105	La botellita (The Little Bottle) - merengue	Reynaldo "El Papi" Díaz, Luis Carlos Farfán	03:38
106	Fidelina (son)	Reynaldo "El Papi" Díaz, Náfer Durán	04:59
107	La cañaguatera (The Woman from Cañaguate) - paseo	Isaac Carrillo, Jhonny Gámez	03:07
108	Mi poema (My Poem) - paseo	Silvio Brito, Orangel "El Pangue" Maestre	05:15
109	Merengue (Instrumental)	Omar Geles	03:27
110	Sin ti (Without You) - paseo	Ivo Díaz, Náfer Durán	04:32
111	La consentida (The Pampered Girl) - paseo	Fabián Corrales, Luis Carlos Farfán	05:22
112	Matilde Lina (paseo)	Ivo Díaz, Rafael Salas	03:46
113	Celos (Jealousies) - paseo	Riquelme Carrillo	06:04
114	Puya (Instrumental)	Omar Geles	07:36
115	Ausencia sentimental (Sentimental Absence) - paseo	Silvio Brito, Orangel "El Pangue" Maestre	05:09