Los Gauchos de Roldán
Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Uruguay (CD)

SFW-CD-40561

Accordions and guitars have enlivened the social life of cattle-herding gaucho families of northern Uruguay since the mid 1800s. On Los Gauchos de Roldán, regional musical icon Walter Roldán pumps out time-honored polcas and chotis, Brazilian-tinged maxixas and more on his button accordion as Chichí Vidiella adds the lush color of the bandoneón. Bernardo Sanguinetti's guitar and Richardo Cunha's percussive, deep-pitched guitarrón immerse the melodies in a nest of rhythms and harmonies, which formerly-exiled singer-songwriter Numa Moraes treats us to five gems of his repertoire.
19 tracks, 55 minutes of music, 40-page bilingual booklet.

Track listing:

1) Como mí suegra
{Like My Mother-in-Law} milonga
2) La embrujada
{The Bewitched Polca} polca
3) Chotis de Don Lorenzo
{Don Lorenzo’s Schottische} chotis
4) En el galpón
{In the Barn} maxixa
5) La flor del bañado
{The Marsh Flower} polca
6) El gaucho en la pulpería
{The Gaucho in the Bar} mazurca
7) El viejo
{The Old Schottische} chotis
8) Como polca suena/La polanqura
{It Sounds like Polca/The Girl from San Gregorio de Polanco} polca
9) Colonia Lavalleja
{Lavalleja Township} habanera
10) La polquita de la tuna
{The Little Polca of the Tuna Cactus} polca
11) Chotis cuadrillero
{The Quadrille Chotis} chotis
12) Maxixa del pañuelito
{The Handkerchief Maxixa} maxixa
13) La Infeliz
{The Miserable Girl} polca
14) El remolino
{The Whirlwind} valseado
15) Polca del 1904
{The 1904 Polca} polca
16) La roncandora
{The Growling Polca} polca
17) La Chiquita de Buricayupí
{The Little Girl from Buricayupí} polca
18) Cerro abajo
{Downhill} maxixa
19) Una noche cuaiquiera
{Any Night} vals

Published: 2012

Genre: Middle & North America & Tango
Label: Smithsonian Folkways