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Un Fuego De Sangre Pura

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This is one of the best recordings of pure "roots" music from the colombian caribbean coast.The music and singing is full of the raw emotion of its african,indigenous and spanish heritage.Highly recommended for fans of autochthonous latin american music.

This is pure music.

The instrumentation is so raw... the flutes, drums, and maracas just flow with tribal rhythms that are hypnotic.

I'm very much into Columbian rhythms such as Vallenato and Cumbia but this is much more raw... this is music from the hinterlands and the coast... this is music that has held on to it's tradition and is unchanged from what it was generations back.

I'll be in the Andes in a few weeks time and this will be my soundtrack to it... no doubt about it.

This album won the 2007 Latin Grammy for Best Folk Album. It was nominated even before it came out to the market. The interpreters are traditional "gaiteros" from the northen part of Colombia, who have pass on their art through generations. It is faitfully a traditional album, full of traditional rhytms, and sounds that only indigenous instruments can reproduce. Beautifull work!