Music From Orinoco [Import]

Cheo Hurtado | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 21, 1997)
• Original Release Date: December 9, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ocora France
• ASIN: B000003IG6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #630,039 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Registro Del Pajarillo I.

2. Travel Into The Field

3. Old Horse

4. The North Is A Chimaera

5. Zumba Que Zumba

6. El Marabino

7. Registro Del pajarillo II.

8. Polo Margariteno

9. Chatterings

10. The Sparrowhawk

11. The Escaped Devil

12. The She-Mule

13. The Dehorned She-Goat

14. The Songs Of The Night

15. The She-Bear

16. Golpe Patricio

17. The Prisoner

18. Mocho Hernandez

19. Seis Guayanes

20. Catalina Yane

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cuatro and bandola performance at its best!, February 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Music From Orinoco (Audio CD)

If you have ever heard an instrument so plain, with only four strings, played by a venezuelan kid (it is said that venezuelans are born with a bottle in one hand and a 'cuatro' in the other), you will never imagine how this young man can make it sound as heard in this album.

Cheo Hurtado has become probably the best cuatro player in Venezuela, and he treats us with a wonderful string of songs from the plains (Llanos de Venezuela). The joropos and pasajes are full of intrincate accords which make your nuckles hurt if you only imagine how he performs them.

His interpretation of Caballo Viejo, probably the best known Venezuelan song that has toured the world nowadays, is one of the best instrumental versions I have heard.

To complement the album, Cheo changes the cuatro for the bandola, a leading instrument derived from the mandolin and the Spanish bandorreon, which sends all joropo dancers to the center of the action. The version he plays in the album is the 'bandola guayanesa', from the southeastern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.

So, if you would like to make a trip into the inner soul of venezuelan music and the national instrument of this country, I think this is the album to plunge in.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maestro Absoluto/Absolute Master, February 16, 2001

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N. Franco "nelyar" (Waterloo, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music From Orinoco (Audio CD)

Excelente trabajo. Cheo Hurtado es un virtuoso de ambos instrumentos (Cuatro & Bandola). Sus versiones de temas tipicos venezolanos son muy originales y de calidad. Musica maravillosa, maravillosa interpretacion. Comprelo, asi usted no sea venezolano. No se arrepentira. / Excelent work. Cheo Hurtado is a virtuoso in both instruments (Cuatro & Bandola, both typical instruments of Venezuela). His versions of Venezuela's folklore songs are very original and full of quality. Wonderful Music, wonderful interpretation. Buy it, even if you're not a venezuelan. You'll never regret it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Cheo!, July 30, 2004

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C. A Isturiz "Isturiz" (Round Rock, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music From Orinoco (Audio CD)

This a fantastic example of Venezuelan cuatro mastery as well as a few terrific tracks where Cheo plays one of the most beautiful instruments of the region: the "Bandola Guayanesa".