Artist: Los Gauchos de Roldán

Title: Button Accordion and Bandoneon Music From Northern Uruguay

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

UPC: 093074056127

Genre: Latin Pop/Rock

Album Tracks

1. Como M Suegra [Like My Mother-In-Law]
2. La Embrujada [The Bewitched Polca]
3. Chotis de Don Lorenzo [Don Lorenzo S Schottische]
4. En El Galp N [In the Barn]
5. La Flor Del Ba Ado [The Marsh Flower]
6. El Gaucho en la Pulper a [The Gaucho in the Bar]
7. El Viejo [The Old Schottische]
8. Como Polca Suena/La Polanqura [It Sounds Like Polca/The Girl from San G
9. Colonia Lavalleja [Lavalleja Township]
10. La Polquita de la Tuna [The Little Polca of the Tuna Cactus]
11. Chotis Cuadrillero [The Quadrille Chotis]
12. Maxixa Del Pa Uelito [The Handkerchief Maxixa]
13. La Infeliz [The Miserable Girl]
14. El Remolino [The Whirlwind]
15. Polca Del 1904 [The 1904 Polca]
16. La Roncandora [The Growling Polca]
17. La Chiquita de Buricayup [The Little Girl from Buricayup ]
18. Cerro Abajo [Downhill]
19. Una Noche Cuaiquiera [Any Night]

Accordions & guitars have enlivened the social life of cattle-herding gaucho families of northern Uruguay since the mid 1800s. On Los Gauchos de Roldan, regional icon Walter Roldan pumps out time-honored polcas & chotis, Brazilian-tinged maxixas & more on his button accordion as Chichi Vidiella adds lush color of the bandoneon. Bernardo Sanguinetti's guitar & Richardo Cunha's percussive, deep-pitched guitarron immerse the melodies in a nest of rhythms & harmonies, while formerly-exiled singer/songwriter Numa Moraes treats US to 5 gems of his repertoire. 14 trks 55mins, 40-pg bilingual bklt.