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Imagen Latina - Alberto Naranjo
Titel : Imagen Latina
Artiest(en) : Alberto Naranjo
Genre : Salsa
Medium : CD
Jaar : 2003
Label : Merusa
€ 16,90
Imagen Latina is an album by Venezuelan musician Alberto Naranjo, originally released in 1992 and reedited thrice in 2002, 2008 and 2012. It is the seventh album (fifth studio album) of El Trabuco Venezolano musical project arranged and directed by Naranjo.
Trabuco is a Spanish term used in Venezuelan baseball slang to describe an All-Star selection of players. So, El Trabuco Venezolano means "The Venezuelan All-Star Band", in the best sense of the phrase. Naranjo (Caracas, 1941) is one of Venezuela`s icons of contemporary music, establishing his prestige as an arranger, conductor, composer and drummer. In 1992 Naranjo produced Imagen Latina. Soloists with an already established career in Venezuela participated in this project; renowned salseros as Canelita Medina, Carlos Espósito, Vladimir Lozano, Trina Medina, Carlos Daniel Palacios and Mauricio Silva; noted folklorists as Simón Díaz, Cecilia Todd and the group Serenata Guayanesa, and also counted with the collaboration of poet Jesús Rosas Marcano, musician Benjamín Brea, pop singer María Rivas, jazz pianist Otmaro Ruiz, and the polifacetic Aldemaro Romero. Most salsa bands are a tightly wound unit that developed their music through years of playing in clubs around their hometown. El Trabuco Venezolano never subscribed to that aesthetic. As the vehicle for the arrangements of Naranjo, his Trabuco defied all salsa conventions in the 1970s. The eclectic body of Naranjo`s work shows some debt to Billo Frómeta, Tito Puente and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, preferring traditional guaracha, jazz, bolero, mambo and Venezuelan genres, creating a sophisticated and distinctive sound with accessible melodic hooks, complex harmonies and time signatures, as well as a special devotion to the recording studio. This record was never released outside of Venezuela, and after ten years of relative obscurity, the company Merusa Records of Netherlands introduced it at the international level. One of the songs included in the album, Calipso de El Callao, is listed in the book 1001 Songs: You Must Hear Before You Die.
1. Al fin juntas (6:22)
2. Hace rato (4:07)
3. El chivo (4:50)
4. Calipso de el callao (4:11)
5. El Corazón de caribe (3:27)
6. Se baila así (4:36)
7. Sin tu mirada (3:46)
8. Te amo (5:05)
9. Que valé mas? (4:11)
10. Senor tiempo (5:41)
11. Amor de alquiler (6:08)
12. Boleros venezolanos (6:53)
13. Sin manana ni ayer (5:07)
14. Alna`s Mambo (7:08)
"The Best of the Venezuelan All-Stars"
Alberto Naranjo (Caracas, 1941) is one of Venezuela`s icons of contemporary music, establishing his fame as a composer, arranger, drummer and percussionist, radio DJ, music teacher, and writer. He played with many veteran musicians of the big orchestras of the golden era of Latin music in Caracas, when it was the hub of the Caribbean and Latin America, pulling migrants-and musicians-from everywhere to this El Dorado of the oil boom.
The term trabuco means an all-star selection of players, so El Trabuco Venezolano means "The Venezuelan All-Star Band." The best comparison between El Trabuco and another band of that era probably is with Irakere, the Cuban miracle-workers, also a Latin-jazz group-and also often labeled as a salsa band.` The diaspora of El Trabuco members over the capitals of music in Europe - Gerardo Rosales in Amsterdam, Rengifo and Pérez in Cologne, Carlos Espósito and Orlando Poleo in Paris, and Irvis Méndez in Spain - demonstrates the wealth of talents El Trabuco contained.
In 1992 Naranjo produced Imagen Latina. Soloists with an already established reputation participated in this project national idols like Simon Díaz and Cecilia Todd, who are associated with traditional music and national folklore Trina Medina, Canelita, and Vladimir Lozano, who are famous salseros Maria Rivas, a pop star and Aldemaro Romero, another icon of Venezuelan music. All those exquisite singers and soloists sound like just one more instrument in the El Trabuco ensemble.
This record was never released outside of Venezuela, and after ten years of relative oblivion, Merusa Records is pleased to release Imagen Latina and introduce the genius of Alberto Naranjo y su Trabuco to music lovers around the world. It is a great honor for Merusa to introduce a CD that might be dubbed The Best of the Venezuelan All-Stars a high point in the recorded history of Venezuelan and Latin music!
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