Michi Sarmiento
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Soundway Records presents The Best of Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo - pure Colombian dancefloor thunder!!
Soundway presents "Aqui Los Bravos! The Best of Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo 1967 - 77", a collection of pure Colombian dancefloor thunder; 16 tracks of the finest guaguancós, descargas and cumbias recorded by legendary bandleader Michi Sarmiento y su Bravos. Available now from all good record store including the Soundway store - ht...
In the 1960’s the Caribbean coastal cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla were invaded by the modern sounds of nuyorican boogaloo and salsa. Meanwhile, a young sax player by the name of Michi Sarmiento – son of DiscosFuentes’ brilliant in-house arranger Climaco –was honing his skills in the rough bars and clubs of Cartagena’s red light district.
Born into a musical family in 1938, Michi, a musical-child prodigy of sorts, began playing the cabarets, casinos and cathouses of Cartagena in the late 1950’s.
By 1967 he formed the Combo Bravo (the band consisted of two trumpets, Michi on tenor sax and clarinet, guitar and piano, electric bass, tumbadora, timbales and a young Joe Arroyo on vocals) and began to play live alongside other exciting young groups such as Toño y su Combo, Los Seven del Swing and Puerto Rico y su Combo.
Along with infectious dance porros and cumbias, Michi y sus Bravos specialized in rumbling guaguancós, descargas and hot covers of early salsa and boogaloo hits. Michi’s LPs on Discos Fuentes, brilliantly produced and recorded by Mario ‘Pachanga’ Rincón, were packed with fast-paced dancefloor burners featuring pumping bass, insistent montunos, sax solos and nasty metallic percussion.
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