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Seis Pajueliao

by Anselmo López

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After announcing Color de Trópico Vol. 2 with a vintage fuzzed-out cumbia from Mario y Sus Diamantes, a second single will show the creativity that Venezuelans had with their own iconic national styles. Anselmo Lopez’s legacy is tied to the Venezuelan llanos (plains). It was there that he
mastered the bandola (a four-string guitar), to the extent of being dubbed “King of the Bandola”. He lives up to this name on “Seis Pajueliao”; using a technique borrowed from
classical guitar-playing Anselmo lets rip, notes ping-ponging as he evokes the vistas of Venezuela’s rural lowlands, creating the kind of quick-fire melody that would get feet
moving and glasses emptied in a bar or dancehall come the end of the working week. This is the music of Venezuela’s proletariat, but with all the rhythmic sway, technical prowess
and bonhomie of any music coming out of Latin America at the time.

Color de Trópico Vol. 2 is an exploration of Venezuela’s golden age of music, from the 60sthrough the 70s, and shows how there was innovation coming from all sources, withinternal migrations and an increasing cosmopolitanism in the cities that made it impossible to know where musicians were going to head next, at least on a musical note. From
Anselmo’s rural bandola throwdown to Los Cuatros Monedas’ cheeky reggae facelift, through Nelson y Sus Estrellas’ gritty salsa and Los Kings’ homage to Fela Kuti, Color de Trópico Vol. 2 keeps you guessing from one song to the next.

The aim of the Color de Trópico series, compiled by DJ El Palmas and El Dragón Criollo, is to document a vital part of Venezuela’s musical history, and ensure that it gets the
respect it deserves. This second volume continues this work of healing and reconstruction, offering even more evidence for the case.

Color de Trópico Vol. 2 is released by El Palmas Music.

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released April 23, 2021
Mastering : The Carvery
Artwork: Georgina Maldera

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El Palmas Music Barcelona, Spain

El Palmas is a label, a DJ set and an expansive project to revere and inspire through passion for the living music, music that moves. We’re intertropical but we embrace every fusion and mixture as well because is in our nature. In this way, we try to bring in sounds with spirit, artists old and new, forgotten gems, fleurishing talents of Tropical, Rock, disco, latin, afro, original and reissues. ... more

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