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Nuevo Ritmo...!
Studio album by Los Corraleros de Majagual
Released	1966
Length	31:32
Label	Discos Fuentes
Los Corraleros de Majagual chronology
Señora Bonita (1965) Nuevo Ritmo...! (1966) ¡Nos Fuimos! (1966)

Nuevo Ritmo...! is a studio album by Colombian musical group Los Corraleros de Majagual, released in 1966 on the Discos Fuentes label. In Los 600 de Latinoamérica, a 2024 ranking of the 600 greatest Latin American albums by music critics and academics, Nuevo Ritmo...! was ranked No. 17, with critic José Luis Mercado calling it a "milestone in Colombian music" that "established a standard of quality and creativity that remains revered in tropical music in Latin America to this day."

Recording and release

Nuevo Ritmo...! was released by Medellin record label Discos Fuentes in 1966. It was the first album by Los Corraleros de Majagual following the departure of founding member Alfredo Gutiérrez to pursue a solo career on record label Sonolux. Trumpeter Manuel Cervantes took over leadership of the band, while Gutiérrez was replaced on accordion by Lisandro Meza, who, alongside bassist Julio Ernesto Estrada (Fruko), introduced bass guitar to the Corraleros for the first time notably on hit track "La Burrita". José Luis Mercado wrote that the use of the bass "not only modernized the sound of Los Corraleros, but also contributed to the development of the genre."

The first side of the record is a medley, including songs written by members of the band as well as covers of hits like Spanish Flea, which had been made famous by Herb Alpert.

Cover

Jaime Andrés Monsalve criticised the cover of the album, writing that it "speaks to the limited resources available in the photographic studio and of the eternal stereotype of the Afro-Colombian hitting the leather." Ana Cecilia Calle suggests that images of Afro-Colombians were used on the covers of Colombian tropical music albums as a means of authenticating the Caribbean rhythms to mestizo audiences.

Track listing

References

1. ^ José Luis Mercado, "17 «Nuevo Ritmo…!» Los Corraleros de Majagual", Los 600 de Latinoamérica (in Spanish), retrieved January 3, 2025
2. ^ Jaime Andrés Monsalve Buriticá (November 2024). "37: Los Corraleros de Majagual – Nuevo ritmo...!". En Surcos de Colores: La Historia de la Música Colombiana en 150 Discos [In Colourful Grooves:The History of Colombian Music in 150 Records] (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Rey Naranjo Editores. pp. 80–82. ISBN 978-628-7589-47-6.
3. Ch, Jonathan Rivera (2021-12-06). "Los Corraleros de Majagual, con sabor costeño". HJCK (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-13.
4. Ana Cecilia Calle (2024). "Tensiones raciales y visuales en el trópico colombiano: Discografías de orquestas sabaneras Pedro Laza y sus pelayeros y La Sonora Cordobesa" [Racial and Visual Tensions in the Colombian Tropics: Discographies of sabanera orchestras Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros and La Sonora Cordobesa]. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (in Spanish). 42: 145–171. ISSN 2157-2941. Retrieved January 3, 2025.

External links

• Nuevo Ritmo..! at Discogs (list of releases)

• Los Corraleros de Majagual albums
• 1960s Spanish-language albums
• Discos Fuentes albums