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Si Soy Llanero: Joropo Music From The Orinoco Plains Of Colombia
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About Si Soy Llanero: Joropo Music From The Orinoco
The Joropo tradition of Eastern Colombia, which is also known as música llanera (plains music), is a local form of cowboy music. The flatlands near the Venezuelan border, watered by the Orinoco River, are prime cattle-and-horse raising territories. The ranch hands there create joyously rhythmic, string-and-percussion-based songs fashioned from African, Spanish and indigenous sources and performed on a cuatro (small, four-stringed guitar) and/or a bandola (a pear-shaped guitar), bass, maracas and a harp. During hard times, many of these people migrated to the capitol city of Bogotá where, lacking any other marketable skills, they ended up becoming professional musicians. Their songs tend to fall into one of two broad categories, the rushing, lop-sided golpe or the more lyrical pasaje, both of which are constructed over triple meters. That they can and do inspire infinite melodic invention is borne out by the florid, rough-edged yet sophisticated examples showcased on this album. --Christina Roden
