Puerto Rico Al Mundo

Viento De Agua | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 10, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Qbadisc Records
• ASIN: B00000FBS5
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,621 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Please Read, August 3, 2001

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jesus (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puerto Rico Al Mundo (Audio CD)

This is great music....Plena and Bomba are musical styles from Puerto Rico (Bomba from the Loiza Aldea region, Plena has deeper roots in central and souther Puerto Rico).For this music to be called Cuban in origin is a mistake, and should be corrected.I love my Cuban brothers and sisters, but I am tired of outsiders saying that everything that comes out of Puerto Rico is based on Cuban or something else. People, please do your research first before you say such things, because I take it offensive manner, and I know I am not the only one who feels this way. Plena and other forms of Puerto Rican music are at my heart and this is a great CD to own for anyone interested in true Puerto Rican music, and its a great investment.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars De Puerto Rico al mundo, May 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Puerto Rico Al Mundo (Audio CD)

I'd like to know whence Elena Oumano gets her information about the origin of salsa. My understanding is that it is not of Cuban origin. And if not of Puerto Rican origin, we have certainly not co-opted it, as she describes. I have heard the selections from this CD and it does not sound Cuban in origin, i.e. mambo or rumba. If she knows something that the rest of us Caribeños do not, please Elenita cite your source of information. Thank you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing group from the Puerto Rican flying bus., December 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Puerto Rico Al Mundo (Audio CD)

De Puerto Rico Al Mundo by Viento De Agua is probably one of the most interesting musical production in it's genre. The level of experimentation with salsa, jazz and songo while establishing the powerfull sounds of bomba y plena as the main core of their musical statement made Viento de Agua an amazing force in the Puerto Rican Musical Scene. Numbers like "Fiesta De Plena", "De Puerto Rico A Nueva York" or "El Rumor" are examples of how you are suppose to use "panderos". Viento de Agua is in a league of its own because their musical concept does not concede to the easy ready made, "Christmas music", "folkloric" or "payola" groups that proliferate in the Island. I hope that Viento de Agua continues to produce such a massive "aguacero" (rainfall) in the forthcoming productions.