Grandes Del Folklore V.1 [Import]

Jorge Cafrune | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony Import
• ASIN: B0000A59KL
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,581 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Zamba De Mi Esperanza

2. Telesita

3. Virgen India

4. Mi Luna Cautiva

5. Lopez Pereyra

6. Zamba Para Decir Adios

7. Paisaje De Catamarca

8. Balderrama

9. Cautiva

10. No Soy De Aqui, Ni Soy De Alla

11. Coplas Del Payador Perseguido

12. De Corrales A Tranquera

13. Recuerdos De Ypacarai

14. Difunta Correa

15. Sin Caballo Y En Montiel

16. Coplas Del Pescador

17. Santafesino De Veras

18. Guri Pescador

19. Milonga Del Solitario

20. No Te Puedo Olvidar

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

2CD set for a total of 30 songs.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Pampas' Troubadour still sings for us., January 28, 2005

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Maximiliano F Yofre "Maxi" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grandes Del Folklore V.1 (Audio CD)

Whenever you think about Argentinean music, you think about Tango. Tango actually is Buenos Aires City's music.

But there exist a rich universe of Argentinean folkloric music as representative as Tango and very different from it.

Here you have a collection of songs that express the soul of the "gaucho" (the cowboy of the "Pampas", the Flatlands from Argentina); the moods of the "Collas" (Incas' descent that populate the North West Argentinean Provinces and Bolivia and Peru) more nostalgic than the first.

Jorge Cafrune (1937-1978) was a great folk singer. He was a true "gaucho" even if his ancestors came to Argentina from Syria and Lebanon. This community blended seamlessly with the Spaniards and Collas descents in the NW as Jewish descent did in Entre Rios Province giving rise to the "gauchos judios".

Cafrune's voice was unique and high pitched coloring the songs he sang with a personal mark.

Cafrune died when he was performing a "musical raid" on horseback; he was crashed by a Land Rover in a very suspicious "accident".

The compositions contained in this CD emerge from different Argentinean Provinces, charged with their peculiar rhythms and sounds and delivered to the audience by Jorge's outstanding voice and his guitar.

"Balderrama" whose text is authored by Manuel J. Castilla and music composed by Cuchi Leguizamon, two well known folklorists, describes what happens in Salta's most famous "peña", a sort of pub where customers and artists mix freely, sing and drink from sunset till dawn.

"Sin Caballo y en Montiel" (Horseless in Montiel) authored by Don Athaualpa Yupanqui, great poet and folklorist recently deceased, tells about the sadness of a fleeing horseless gaucho looking to his lands across the river.

"La Cautiva" (The Captive Woman) is the love story of Indian Chief Alborevi and a beautiful Christian captive woman.

This is a CD to be treasured by anyone in love with folk music of distant lands and soloist admirers.

Reviewed by Max Yofre.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ¡Cinco Estrellas!, May 1, 2004

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Juan Torres (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grandes Del Folklore V.1 (Audio CD)

Cafrune es lo mejor de lo mejor. Este álbum trae sus mejores canciones.