There's a lot of great music coming out of Colombia these days, but sometimes the desire to appeal to a broad, international audience strips the sound of Colombia from the music.
So it's a little surprising that Corazon Latino, a conglomerate of Swiss & Colombian musicians, should give us an album that retains so much of the country's local flavor while delivering a fairly modern album of songs, newly written by members of the group.
But that's just what they do in Desde Barranquilla. With rhythms like cumbia, traditional Colombian instruments, an acoustic sound without alot of studio manipulation, the album is an unexpected, infectious pleasure.
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