Puerto Rico Al Mundo

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Salsa ecstasy is an intensely visceral Cuban creation that's been virtually co-opted by Puerto Ricans, whether home-island bound or Manhattan Island eclectic, like the members of this band, who proudly call themselves Nuyorican. Taking their root inspiration from the souls of old Latino masters, Viento de Agua (an idiomatic term describing the damp air that precedes a tropical storm) layers in other sounds of their place and time, namely jazz, rock, hip-hop, and funk, coming up with vigorous grooves that would pump it up in any sweat hole. Hence this debut set's title, which translates as "From Puerto Rico to the World." Founded by a trio of young Puerto Ricans--singer-percussionist Hector "Tito" Matos, a veteran of numerous bomba and plena groups, and arrangers-reedmen Ricardo Pons and Alberto Toro (also students of classical music and jazz, respectively)--Viento includes seasoned vets, among them percussionists Sammy Tanco and Juan Gutierrez, as well as Camilo E. Molina Gaetan, an 8-year-old hotshot on the cowbells, timbalis, and such. Though these nine tracks hit hard, then depart like a hurricane in a hurry, Viento's finest moments are when they depart from well-worn tracks to forge their unique style, as in the unorthodox use of a drum set (Bobby Sanabria's) and horn-section arpeggios built from startling instrumental combinations. --Elena Oumano

Puerto Rico Al Mundo,Viento De Agua,Qbadisc Records,Latin,Latin Pop/Rock,Tropical

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Tracks:

Fiesta De Plena
Lo Que Le Gusta A La Gente
La Reina Mia
Cucu
De Puerto Rico A Nueva York
Cuando Yo La Vi
Te Estas Haciendo
Rockeros Muertos
El Rumor
Bonus Track

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Salsa ecstasy is an intensely visceral Cuban creation that's been virtually co-opted by Puerto Ricans, whether home-island bound or Manhattan Island eclectic, like the members of this band, who proudly call themselves Nuyorican. Taking their root inspiration from the souls of old Latino masters, Viento de Agua (an idiomatic term describing the damp air that precedes a tropical storm) layers in other sounds of their place and time, namely jazz, rock, hip-hop, and funk, coming up with vigorous grooves that would pump it up in any sweat hole. Hence this debut set's title, which translates as "From Puerto Rico to the World." Founded by a trio of young Puerto Ricans--singer-percussionist Hector "Tito" Matos, a veteran of numerous bomba and plena groups, and arrangers-reedmen Ricardo Pons and Alberto Toro (also students of classical music and jazz, respectively)--Viento includes seasoned vets, among them percussionists Sammy Tanco and Juan Gutierrez, as well as Camilo E. Molina Gaetan, an 8-year-old hotshot on the cowbells, timbalis, and such. Though these nine tracks hit hard, then depart like a hurricane in a hurry, Viento's finest moments are when they depart from well-worn tracks to forge their unique style, as in the unorthodox use of a drum set (Bobby Sanabria's) and horn-section arpeggios built from startling instrumental combinations. --Elena Oumano

Customer Reviews:

Great music!!.......2006-11-21

Excelente trabajo musical. Magistral combinacion de la plena puertorriqueña con otros elementos musicales como la bomba, la salsa y jazz. La influencia jazzistica se hace mas evidente en los arreglos de la seccion de vientos. Una joya entre las nuevas agrupaciones de plena.

great.......2006-01-21

all of you interested in getting this CD get it! Anything that Tito Matos and friends are involved with is as Puerto Rican as my guiro! If you want to listen to a great Puerto Rican band that smokes the competition get this CD. I also recommend Grupo Afroboricua to hear Bomba and Plena at it's purest (no piano, no guitar, no nothing just drums, Bells and Cua's. Buy this CD. You'll love it.

THEY GET DOWN.......2005-10-09

ELENA OUMANO DOES NEED TO GET HER FACTS STRAIGHT. AS FAR AS THE CUBA VS PUERTO RICO THING, CUBA Y PUERTO RICO ARE THE WINGS OF THE SAME BIRD!!! SINCE Y'ALL TOOK TIME TO GIVE SO MANY OF YOUR FACTS LET ME ASK EACH ONE OF YOU A QUESTION, IF YOU CAN ANSWER IT AND SHUT ME UP I'LL NEVER WRITE ANOTHER REWIEW ON AMAZON OK? LET'S GO!!!
sexymoreno03/ you said that Celia Cruz made salsa popular but that it's roots were not Cuban, so why was she known for singing SON MONTUNO,GUAGUANCO,CHA CHA CHA, ETC rhythms that originate in CUBA? come back to me.
James Serrat president and executive director/ if the creative artists that pioneered SALSA were Puerto Rican! why was Orestes Vilato playing timbales for Ray Barretto? why was Carlos 'PATATO' Valdez playing congas for Ismael Rivera? come back to me.
Joe Aponte/ if Beny More never had a trombone solo than tell me what were they doing in a song called Que bueno baila usted? Listen to it!!! come back to me.
Pedro/ did Hector Lavoe or Andy Montañez ever use barriles or did they use congas for their music? come back to me.

WE GAVE IT A BLEND OF FLAVORS THAT NOBODY COULD IMAGINE AND WE CALLED IT SALSA, BUT DON'T FORGET WHERE THE ORIGINAL RECIPE CAME FROM.

Well, concerning all musica Latina..........2003-11-11

It's very ironic that people are having this discussion. Yes, Bomba and Plena comes from PUERTO RICO (Bomba, I think was born in Loiza...And Plena is from Ponce, del barrio San Anton, it's debated...) But it had nothing to do with Cuban Son.

But while Puerto Ricans are here arguing against Cubans about the origin of this music... I'll tell u... from most of the people in the U.S., and I'm sure of other places, who are not Latino and dont know anything about Latino culture, and music and stuff... They are very, very, very, very quick to label Salsa, Merengue, or whatever as MEXICAN music; Just because it is sang in Spanish!!!!

I think someone needs to do the educating to these poor folks... No offense against Mexicans, cuz I love all of my international family from all across the world...BUT, if I showed them real Mexican music, they'd probably want to run away... lol...

But you see, (for example) Alot of people think that Cumbia came from Mexico, when in fact, it was invented by Colombians in the first place!!! Just because alot of Mexican singers have popularized Cumbia, doesn't make its roots Mexican. Same thing with Salsa... just because Celia Cruz, La querida Reina de La Salsa, was Cuban, and she popularized Salsa alot across the world, does not make it's roots Cuban...

Salsa is Cuban?? NO WAY!!!!.......2003-06-21

...Salsa was created by Puerto Rican artists in NYC and developed further in Puerto Rico. PERIOD. Though it borrows from Cuban styles, it also synthesized from other styles of other places. This synthesis does not alter the fact that the creative artists that pioneered what we call "salsa" were Puerto Rican!

Go to Cuba and they'll call their music something else: Timba, Rumba, Guaguancó, Son, etc, but NOT salsa.

-- Jaime Serrat, President & Executive Editor,
Music of Puerto Rico Foundation...

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