Se formó la salsa, by Roberto De La Barrera

Se formó la salsa

by Roberto De La Barrera

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1.	Macondo 03:16
2.	Mi Sonora 05:57
3.	Vamos al Bohío 04:38	buy track
4.	Oye mi ritmo 03:53
5.	Historia fugaz 02:31
6.	Juanita Morel 02:42
7.	Se formó la salsa 05:21
8.	Mi son montuno 02:24

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Roberto de la Barrera fue posiblemente el primer músico de Cartagena, Colombia, en grabar lo que más tarde se denominaría música “tropical” o “salsa” con su grupo a comienzos-mediados de los 60s.

“Se formó la salsa”, su tercer LP para Discos Fuentes, incluye una irresistible mezcla de sabores cubanos y colombianos, con ese toque crudo, desatado y espontáneo tan maravilloso que se asocia con las descargas de Cachao y otros de una década antes.

Roberto de la Barrera fue pionero en introducir sonidos latinos modernos de La Habana, Nueva York y San Juan.

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Pianist Roberto de la Barrera was arguably the first musician from Cartagena, Colombia to record music that would later be labeled “tropical” and “salsa” with his own group in the early to mid-1960s. He took the piano seat in the Discos Fuentes house orchestra and was also an arranger on several releases.

In 1970 he recorded his third album for the label, “Se formó la salsa”, featuring an irresistible mix of Colombian and Cuban flavors, sometimes within the same tune, and often with that wonderful raw, loose, improvisational quality associated with the “descarga” jam sessions of Cachao and others a decade before.

Roberto de la Barrera was a pioneer in introducing modern Latin sounds from Havana, New York and San Juan. Sadly, his contributions in bringing salsa to the Caribbean region of Colombia and hence the rest of the country have gone largely unheralded, but hopefully this reissue will help set things straight.

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released November 15, 2019

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