MAKERULE
Lalcoba Studio, Cartagena, 2007Evergreens of Colombian folk and popular music
Musicians: Leonor Dely (lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar); Istvan Dely (percussion); Jose E. Cabeza (acoustic guitars). Produced by Leonor & Istvan Dely. Recorded by Marci Takacs in Cartagena, Colombia, 2007. Artwork by Istvan Dely
Colombia is blessed with the greatest musical diversity of any country in the Western Hemisphere. Whites, Blacks, Native American Indians, Arabs, Jews, and all the shades in between, have mingled their blood, their rhythms and melodies in the making of Colombia, which is really five countries in one.
Leonor Dely, the Voice from Colombia, is by blood and heart a true heiress to all of this. “To sing of Colombia is to sing of my memories; it is a tribute to my ancestors from the vantage point of this Caribbean town, Cartagena, which adopted us more than 25 years ago. Time-honored classic tunes of Colombian popular music presented here in a manner that is both simple and magic, unique and particular.”
After her two albums produced and published in the United States by three-time Grammy Award winner producer KC Porter (Amame, and Talisman) which mustered an imposing array of instruments of her family group Millero Congo and a dozen musicians from Colombia, the US, Canada, Venezuela, Peru and Iran, Leonor and her husband Istvan, Hungarian percussionist living in Colombia, decided this time to pay a most intimate, personal and minimalist tribute, to their love for Colombia and its people. Music from heart to heart.
Songlist - Listen!
1. Mojana
2. Pescador, lucero y rio
3. Makerule
4. La araña pelúa / El caimán
5. Pueblito viejo
6. La múcura / Kalamarí
7. Popurrí del Pacífico
8. El alegre pescador
9. Guayabo negro
10. El testamento
11. Popurrí Caribe
12. El camino de la vida
13. Vasija de barroClick here to write your own review!
