Para Todos Ustedes

by Los Pleneros de la 21

Para Todos Ustedes cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 2005
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:15:05
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Subtitled 'Bomba y Plena desde Nueva York', the East Harlem ensemble's Smithsonian Folkways album was nominated for a Grammy Award and carries a booklet introduction by scholar Raquel Z. Rivera. Los Pleneros de la 21 had been founded in 1983 by Juan 'Juango' Guti茅rrez, later an NEA National Heritage Fellow, with master plenero Marcial Reyes Arvelo, and the group performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in the year of the album's release.

Genres

Descriptors: communal, percussive, dance, call-and-response, traditional

Tracklist

  1. Angelito (Little Angel) (5:00)
  2. Carmelina - 1 (3:46)
  3. Baila, Julia Lo铆za (Dance, Julia Lo铆za) (6:45)
  4. La Plena de Paquito Cerniera (The Plena of Paquito Cerniera) (5:52)
  5. Patria Borinque帽a (Puerto Rican homeland) (5:15)
  6. Echando un pie (Shake a Leg) (6:31)
  7. Isla Nena (Little-Girl Island) (6:56)
  8. Madame Calal煤 (3:43)
  9. Campo (Land) / Yo cantar茅 esta bomba (I Will Sing This Bomba) (7:34)
  10. Chiviriquit贸n (3:29)
  11. Habla Cuemb茅 (Speak Cuemb茅) (8:11)
  12. Carmelina - 2 (4:21)
  13. Semillero (Planter) (7:36)

Credits

  • Los Pleneros de la 21 - primary artist, composer
  • Papo V谩zquez - consultant, guest, trombone
  • Jacob Love - editor [editorial assistance]
  • John Santos - guest, percussion
  • Herman Olivera - guest, vocals
  • M铆riam F茅lix - guest, vocals
  • Patrick Gelesh - production manager [assistance]
  • Raquel Z. Rivera - liner notes
  • Charlie Pilzer - mastered by
  • Pete Reiniger - mixed by
  • Erika Rojas - photography by
  • Marlow Palleja - photography by
  • Mary Monseur - production manager

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