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Artist:
ROMERO & MONNA BELL, ALDEMARO
Title:
La Onda Nueva en Mexico
Label:
VAMPISOUL (SPAIN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
VAMPI 087CD
2007 release. Originally released in 1970,
La Onda Nueva en Mexico
has remained a cult object among those searching for "rare grooves" for its completely unique concept of combining traditional Mexican music arranged by Venezuelan
Aldemaro Romero
, sung by a Chilean pop singer
Monna Bell
and orchestrated by Mexican jazz musicians. A complete artistic achievement recovered by VampiSoul 37 years later. Few people have managed to combine aspects of classical, popular and experimental music from the second half of the 20th century in a brilliant and original way. In 1970, Bell asked Romero to record an album together in his "Onda Nueve" (New Wave) style: a mixture of modern jazz orchestrations, the hypnotism of the bossa nova guitar, Venezuelan folklore melodies and extremely original and complex vocal structures set to the fast-paced 3/4 rhythm typical of the Venezuelan joropo.
Victor Ruiz
played bass;
Alvaro López
,
Salvador
and
Félix Agüeros
(of
Rabbits and Carrots
) were on drums and percussion;
Julio Vera
was on congas, and vocals were performed by
Los 4 Soles y Gasparín
.
Enrique Sida
and
Jaime "la vaca" Shagún
were on the trombones,
Tomás "la negra" Rodríguez
,
Armando "el Kennedy" Noriega
and
Rodolfo "Popo" Sánchez
were on the saxophones;
Ramón Flores
and the legendary
Chilo Morán
were on the trumpets, and
Pablo Jaimes
,
Jorge Ortega
,
Enrique Neri
and Aldemaro himself were on electric and acoustic pianos, among other well known musicians.
Gualberto Castro
, a talented singer and arranger from the group los
Hermanos Castro
, also sang on "El Balajú," exchanging verses with Monna. All of the musicians felt free to bring in any ideas and to improvise during the 20 days of recording. The result was an explosion of tonalities that, in spite of being essentially popular traditions, revealed something exceedingly unique and modern.
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