Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora ¡Se Formo La Salsa!

• Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora – Macondo
• Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora – Mi Sonora
• Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora – Vamos Al Bohío
• Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora – Oye Mi Ritmo
• Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora – Historia Fugaz
• Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora – Juanita Morel
• Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora – Se Formo La Salsa
• Roberto De La Barrera Y Su Sonora – Mi Son Montuno

• 1. Macondo
• 2. Mi Sonora
• 3. Vamos Al Bohío
• 4. Oye Mi Ritmo
• 5. Historia Fugaz
• 6. Juanita Morel
• 7. Se Formo La Salsa
• 8. Mi Son Montuno

Pianist Roberto de la Barrera was arguably the first musician from Cartagena, Colombia to record music that would later be labeled “tropical” and “salsa” with his own group in the early to mid-1960s. He took the piano seat in the Discos Fuentes house orchestra and was also an arranger on several releases. In 1970 he recorded his third album for the label, “Se formó la salsa”, featuring an irresistible mix of Colombian and Cuban flavors, sometimes within the same tune, and often with that wonderful raw, loose, improvisational quality associated with the “descarga” jam sessions of Cachao and others a decade before.

Roberto de la Barrera was a pioneer in introducing modern Latin sounds from Havana, New York and San Juan. Sadly, his contributions in bringing salsa to the Caribbean region of Colombia and hence the rest of the country have gone largely unheralded, but hopefully this reissue will help set things straight.