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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0790248020129 Label: Putumayo World Music Manufacturer: Putumayo World Music Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Putumayo World Music Release Date: June 11, 2002 Studio: Putumayo World Music Sales Rank: 4111 MPN: 201
Album Description: Latin Playground is a fiesta of upbeat Latin American music for children and families. The CD contains the delightful pieces of music from around the world including: Omara Portuondo recording of Guantanamera. Los 50 De Joselito recording of La Arana Picua. Pink Martini's Anna. Cubanismo recording of Mardi Gras Mambo. Lila Downs recording of Hanal Weech. Jose Gonzalez & Banda Criolla recording of Bomba Le Le. Ska Cubano's recording of Chispa Tren. Rudy Regalado & Chevere recording of America Baila. Educational entertainment for all ages.
Amazon.com: Before you stomp around a Putumayo playground, park your preconceived notions at the picnic bench. The label may not set the world-music crowd on fire with its regular releases, but this series, aimed at kids but translating up, sizzles. Latin Playground's party gets started with a wind-you-up traditional Cuban number (Omara Portuondo's "Guantanamera") and from there traverses North, South, and Central America, making stops in Mexico City, Colombia, the American Tejano region, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico. There are sample wacko lyrics ("The day will come when I will leave you / Because you smell like the armadillo," from Lila Downs's "Hanal Weech"), unexpected instrumentation (accordions punch up the polka flavoring of Flaco Jiminez's conjunto, "De Bolon Pin Pon"), and not a whiff of what's expected from the latest slice off a music education program--even the informative, engaging liner notes are gentle gatekeepers to a land of rhythms everybody wants to get into and get down with. Forget the kids--see if you can make it through Cubanismo's "Mardi Gras Mambo," Nazare Pereira's "Rodopiou," and Carmen Gonzalez's "Chocolate" without waving a set of air maracas or busting into a booty-shaking session to make Ricky Martin blush. --Tammy La Gorce
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Fun CD!
Great CD! Nice to listen to even for parents! Makes us want to dance around the living room.
Rating: - Fun
These songs are plain and simply, fun. We just let the CD play and everybody likes it. I will buy more in the Playground series.
Rating: - Music Lover
This is a good CD but I was expecting something a bit more up beat by the what the other reviews had posted. The playlist is composed of what would be considered "country" latin music.
Rating: - Lovely dancing music
If you're looking for a CD to make a party of a 30-something crowd in your apartment dance, or if you want your kid, whether he's from Guatemala or Kazakhstan to learn the basics of salsa and mambo, this ... Read More
Rating: - Makes you want to dance
This is a very fun collection that doesn't get old. My daughter's Bolivian nanny usually reaches for this CD first, although we love all the Putumayo kids CDs.
- Fun CD!
- Fun