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Singer, dancer and teache, Totó La Momposina's entire life has been dedicated to representing the music of Colombia s Caribbean coastline, where African, indigenous Indian, and Spanish cultures mingle to create a unique musical tradition. Tambolero - originally released in 1993 as La Candela Viva and regarded by many as one of Colombia s most important and seminal albums -- has been re-created and re-imagined for 2015 as part of Real World Records Gold series, and will be released in North America on August 7, 2015.
Among the original 2 inch master tapes in Real World s vaults was a treasure trove of material: some 40 takes of 20 different songs, material all involved had forgotten existed, until then. Not only was there a wealth of recorded material from the La Candela Viva sessions that didn t make the original album, but there were a number of previously unreleased songs as well.
Tambolero is, in effect, a new album, and one in which Totó continues to reflect the experience of her native Colombia through her life and music. The two things are intertwined: the story of Totó la Momposina is truly the story of modern Colombia. It has also become a celebration of Totó s venerable professional career, which will soon reach a landmark 60 years - six decades dedicated to preserving, researching, and developing an ancestral tradition, the identity of a people, passed down through the generations.