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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars GUACO 99
You can hear older hits from GUACO, recorded with new sound. Cepillao, Billetero, Aguas de Cristal sounds excelent. Four new song with quality. La Turbulencia and Medio Loco are the best.
Published on October 19, 1999

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but too busy...
I know the band has great musician, and that they want to do something fresh and new, but they are making just a little bit complicated wich is not good. Anyway i wish them good luck.
Published on December 28, 2000 by Brown Bunker


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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars GUACO 99, October 19, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
You can hear older hits from GUACO, recorded with new sound. Cepillao, Billetero, Aguas de Cristal sounds excelent. Four new song with quality. La Turbulencia and Medio Loco are the best.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars EXTRAORDINARIO, January 11, 2000
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Jose Orellan (Cagua, Aragua Venezuela) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
Quien bautizó a GUACO como la Super Banda de Venezuela, lo hizo en la justa medida. Guaco fusiona los ritmos mas originales con una versatil magistralidad. En una oportunidad leí de el excelente director de Orquesta, Jazzista y Crónista Urbano, Alberto Naranjo; que si había que señalar el aporte Venezolano a los Ritmos Caribeños, pues entonces había que hablar del RITMO GUACO. Dispongase a dar un viaje fabuloso, atravesando esta Selva de ritmos a bordo de la Nave GUACO. Recomendación de Hermano Latino!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Guaco - PHENOMENAL!, December 4, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
This is the best Guaco CD by far to date, and it is hard to imagine that they could surpass this! It has a rich variety of traditional rhythyms, salsa, gaitas, cha-cha-cha (track 12 is my favorite!), with interesting and innovative elements of jazz and even rock. The vocalizations are rich and complex. Even if you know next to nothing about latin music, this is a jewel! It doesn't even matter if you don't speak Spanish...you don't need to! This is the absolute all-time best album I've heard this year!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars GUACO, los Velociraptor de Maracaibo Venezuela, June 26, 2000
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"arthur_owen_proyectosalsa" (Cali, Colombia, South America) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
Guaco is one of the most progressive and innovative bands in latin music history, comparable only with bands of the caliber of Irakere, Van Van and Batacumbele. It has crafted a very intricate and complex sound by fusing funk, rock, jazz and salsa's montuno, all tied to the rythmatic pattern of 'Gaita', their hometown folkloric music. Guaco is fast, Guaco is precise, Guaco is colorful, and most of all, Guaco is extremely compelling. It has also done what very few bands have been able to achieve, which is to elaborate a very sofisticated and technically impressive sound that meets the highest standards of 'quality' music, while managing to be commercial and easy to listen at the same time. 'Como era y como es' is a summary of old hits and new tunes, performed by a group of renegade and open-minded musicians obsessed with achiving perfection and with a constant thirst for exploration. It is about time for this 'incredibly unknown' superband to bypass the limitations self-imposed by an always captive venezuelan market, and have the exposure it deserves to the rest of the world... so everybody can meet Guaco, las BESTIAS de Maracaibo, Venezuela. Arthur Owen, Director PROYECTO SALSA, 107.5 FM, Cali, Colombia
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Que molleja! Guaco, December 6, 1999
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Eugenio Rios (Miami, FLORIDA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
"Que molleja! Guaco" its a frase that means like "Guaco, awesome" in the "maracuchos" language. Since its release, like two or three months ago, this new piece of art is a wonderful representation of the huge lifetime achievement of Guaco, the number one band of venezuelan music. Having saling more than 35,000 copys in Venezuela in such a short period of time, give us a clue of what this CD is going to do in the next days to come. "La Turbulencia" is the first single to top the charts in Venezuela, but I think the whole CD is an ode to the latin rythms. If you love "musica latina" you definetly gonna love Guaco "Como Era Y Como Es".
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly Guaco, January 14, 2003
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This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
I think this album is incredible because it combines the best of Guaco in incredible new versions.Every time I have a party with friends I put this record on and we dance a lot of songs from it and sometimes we dance the whole album and the original 80s versions of the songs such as ''Para Ella''and ''Pastelero''at 1:00 or 2:00 am so it's great.The whole band is the best of all.
Macáco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Evolución, February 15, 2002
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Jose Manuel Sequera (Valencia, Carabobo Venezuela) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
Si, la evolución ha sido una de las principales caracteristicias de Guaco, logrando un producto final de alta factura, todo esto gracias a la osadía en incorporar elementos afrocaribeños (y de otras culturas) a nuestros ritmos como la gaita y la tamborera. "Como era y como es" nos permite apreciar, en una real dimension, el aporte a los generos afrocaribeños, la figura de una banda vista como un todo, el colorido y el sabor de nuestros ritmos latinos.
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5.0 out of 5 stars GENIAL!!, January 6, 2001
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JULIO CESAR PEREA (JALAPA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
Quienes, como yo, hayan seguido el desarrollo de la música afrocaribeña actual, habrán compartido la idea de que lo único interesante y de calidad superior era lo salido de Cuba, gratísima sorpresa se llevarán los que escuchen a Guaco, porque esta es una agrupación de calidad mundial, con un sonido original, piezas frescas, arreglos en serio, voces perfectas, grandes cualidades soneras en sus cantantes, un pulso y un tumbao que no le piden nada a los mejores, excelente producción, muy afortunadas fusiones, en fin, la respuesta de elresto de américa a los pioneros Cubanos, ¡congratulaciones! ¡ no se lo pueden perder!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Guaco swings in Vancouver, March 26, 2000
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andre carrasquero (Vancouver, B.C. - Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
This CD is as good as it can be; good sound, great graphic design and the 'Music' speaks by itself. Guaco is simply the latin band I enjoy the most - I would dare to say the Best Latin Band ever!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gaita es otra cosa... Guaco es otra cosa, April 24, 2001
This review is from: Tocando Tierra A Tribute to Latin American Music (Audio CD)
Para los venezolanos, y quienes siguen nuestra musica tipica, Guaco quizas aun sea recordado como un conjunto de gaita (la musica tradicional que se escucha en Venezuela durante la navidad). Sin embargo, hace muchos años (casi me atrevo a decir que desde comienzos de la década de los ochenta) Guaco rompió con los esquemas tradicionales de la gaita, empezando a incorporar al ritmo de la tamborera (un ritmo gaitero que se adapta con facilidad al estilo de la salsa) instrumentos que los empezaron a hacer parecer más a una banda de salsa brava, con su sección de metales, sus violines y timbales, que a los típicos conjuntos gaiteros basados en el cuatro, la tambora, el furruco y la charrasca.

Desde hace más de veinte años ya, Guaco ha venido rompiendo esquemas una y otra vez, y con esta producción, a quienes los seguimos desde entonces, vienen a ofrecer una recopilación de sus mejores temas de aquella época, con un sonido fresco, junto a temas nuevos.

Particularmente sabrosa resulta la interpretación que hacen del clásico "El Billetero".

Si quieres tener musica en tu coleccion que ayude a la gente a mover los pies en una reunion en tu casa, o quizas tan solo ir cantando en el carro con rumbo al trabajo, este album es para ti.

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