Various Artists / Afrosound Of Colombia, The
Album: Afrosound Of Colombia, The   Collection:World
Artist:Various Artists   Added:Nov 2014
Label:Vampi Soul  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2014-12-05 Pull Date: 2015-02-06 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Feb 8 Feb 1 Jan 25 Jan 18 Jan 11 Jan 4 Dec 28 Dec 14
Airplays: 3 2 3 3 2 3 2 4

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 12, 2022: Music Casserole
Banana De Queso
4. Sep 02, 2017: Music Casserole
Banana De Queso
2. Jan 22, 2022: Music Casserole
Banana De Queso
5. Apr 18, 2017: Magnetized Toner (R1)/A-Philiac (Reprise)
Juventud Flaca Y Loca
3. Oct 30, 2021: Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Dec 26, 2015)
Banana De Queso
6. Dec 26, 2015: Music Casserole
Banana De Queso

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2014-12-05
Afrosound, a mix of Afro Antillean & indigenous Columbian tropical coastal music of the 1960s & 1970s
1: 3:37 fast, male vocals, pachanga, percussion, great dance tune
2: 2:44 mid to faster, mellow,male voc., brass, cumbia
3: 2:59 fast, male voc., percussion, salsa
4: 3:19 mid, male voc., nice bass, guitar & brass, son/montuno/cumbia
5: 3:56 mid, male voc., percussion, brass, guajira
*6: 2:26 mid to faster, male voc., brass, bass, percussion, pompo rhythm
*7: 2:43 fast, male voc., pounding rhythm
8: 3:52 mid, brass, percussion, killer piano, male voc., a porro- salsa
****9: 3:10 mid, clarinet, chugging percussive brass trance, INSTRUMENTAL
10: 4:31 fast, pounding Caribbean beat, brass, male voc.
***11: 3:41 mid to faster, male voc., piano, fiery brass, percussion, cowbell, nice salsa
*****12: 3:17 fast, 1974 FUNK AFRO/CARIBBEAN TRANCE mostly INSTRUMENTAL, psych-blues & guaguanco rhythms. There is so much out of a squishy wah wah guitar, bongos and a cowbell here.
****13: 3:14 fast, male voc. fem chorus, infectious percussion, great dance number
****14: 2:44 fast, afro rhythms, mostly INSTRUMENTAL, percussion, sax & cowbell
***15: 3:12 mid to faster, reggae, funky instrumentation, male vocal
16: 3:50 mid to faster, male voc. brass & percussion
17: 3:44 mid, male voc., piano, cumbia infused with mild funk/disco/salsa
***18: 3:17 fast, male voc, clarinet, percussion & brass
19: 2:34 fast, female voc, piano, uptempo salsifed classic 1950's cumbia
20: 2:48 mid, male voc., brass, cowbell
***21: 3:57 mid, INSTRUMENTAL, hypnotic marching band music, brass, TUBA
****22: 3:20 fast, surf guitar, organ, spy movie sound, INSTRUMENTAL,
23: 3:40 fast, male voc., pounding percussion, cowbell, brass & piano
24: 4:09 fast, "Staying Alive" traditional cumbia with Bee Gees' infused disco

Track Listing
 ArtistTrack Name
1. El Sextero Miramar Pachanga Miramar
2. El Combo Loco Cumbia De Lun
3. Lisandro Mez Y Su Combo Gigante Juventud Flaca Y Loca
4. Peregoya Y Su Comb Vacana Sabor De Vacana
5. Orquesta Ritmo De Sabanas Que Se Hicieron
6. Los Corraleros Y Su Combo Bravo Pompo Del Pilon
7. Los Teen Agers Goza Mi Tamborera
8. Michi Sariemento U Su Combo Bravo Calenita
9. Banda 20 De Julio De Repelon Rosalba
10. Adolfo Echeverria Y Su Orquesta Locura De Mi Cumbele
11. Frunko Y Sus Tesos Achilipu
12. Afrosound Banana De Queso
13. Wganda Kenya Fayab Fayab
14. Tita Duval/El Nuevo Ritmo De Bobby Rey Batukacuto
15. Wganda Kenya El Nativo
16. Chico Cervantes Y Su Nueve Banda El Soncito
17. Latin Brothers, The Dale Al Bombo
18. Los Corraleros De Majagual Juana Rosa Manzano
19. La Integracion Caiman Y Gallinazo
20. Los Bestiales Yolanda
21. La Banda De La Boquilla La Rochela
22. Afrosound Una Abeja En El Semaforo
23. Frunko Y Sus Tesos Luz En La Inmensidad
24. Machuca Cumbia Staying Alive