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Grupo del Cuareim

Candombe

By Grupo del Cuareim

Label: Big World Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: Lonjas de Cuareim; Biricunyamba; Baile de los Morenos; Yo Tambi

Grupo del Cuareim: Candombe

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

Candombe, we’re told in the liner notes to this delightful album, is an Afro–Uruguayan rhythm that extends beyond music to embody a way of life, one that was lovingly portrayed in the paintings of Pedro Figari (1861–1938), to whose memory it is dedicated. The picture here is one of pulsating Latin rhythms underpinning lambent group vocals ...