Orlando "Puntilla" Rios
A Tribute To Gonzalo Asencio: Tio Tom 1919-1991
CD
(Folkways 40543),
Released 2008;
Editor's Pick:
Asencio, known as Tio Tom, was one of the more important musicians of the Cuban 20th century, born in 1919 and dying in 1991. He composed reams of rumbas full of humor and intelligence and verbal ingenuity, all brimming with street knowledge. He was taken to the cleaners by people more able to negotiate the copyright system, but a few decades ago musicians started putting his name back on compositions that had been claimed by others. And here’s a tribute to his music, produced by René López, the famed musicologist/historian/producer and recorded in Havana, played by a pile of great rumberos, including Orlando Puntilla Rios. He’s joined by Ernesto Gatel, Geovani del Pino, Juan Campos Cardenas, Miguel Chapotin, and more on vocals. Maximino Duquesne, Marcos Dias Scull, Mario Jauregui Francis and others are all on percussion. This is cool, cool, rumba, the percussion well-arranged, the coros precise and heartbreakingly beautiful. I like the fact that a Cuban music recording has been released on the Smithsonian Institution’s own label.
Highly Recommended. (Peter Watrous, 2008-03-30)
Song titles include:
Mi Tierra 7:25
No Me Culpes A Mi 6:21
Caballeros, Qué Mujer 7:05
Solo, Errante Y Bohemio 5:50
Mal De Yerba 7:20
¿Dónde Están Los Cubanos? 5:19
Sieto Que Me Regaña El Corazón 6:02
Yo Soy Tu Ley 8:02
Tio Columbia 6:29
Musicians include:
Orlando Rios "Puntilla" Vocals, quinto
Ernesto Gatel Vocals, coro
Geovani Del Pino Vocals, coro
Juan Campos Cárdenas Vocals, coro
Miguel Chapotin Vocals
Gregorio Hernández Vocals
Miguel Angel Mesa Vocals, coro
Aida Salina Sanchez Coro
Maximo Duquesne Tres golpes
Marcos Dias Scull Tumbador
Mario Jáuregui "Aspirina" Quinto
Lázaro Rizo Cuevas Catá
Category: Folkloric
=> Rumba And/Or Santeria/Lucumi
=> Cuba
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