- artist:Charanga Cakewalk
- release year:2004
- style(s):Electronic, Latin
- country:Mexico
- formats:CD (Compact Disc), LP / Vinyl
- record posted by:Triloka Records
- label:Triloka
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Loteria del la Cumbia Lounge is a pan-Latin American martini: equal parts traditional instruments (Spanish classical guitar, accordion, horns and more) and deep, urban, grooves with a dash of Esquivel and a measure of Morricone. Charanga Cakewalk’s unique approach to Mexican, Latin American and World Music follows the road laid by such contemporaries as Sidestepper, Latin Playboys and Mano Chao although the end result is completely original From the flat out cumbia stylings of “La Negra Celina” and “La Cumbia Lounge” to the sultry “Romanticos Desesperados” to the carefree “Belleza” the music here leaps from the speakers. At once sensual and exotic, it delivers music of the soul for the soul; the result is one of sheer movement and joy. And it gets more intense on repeated listens, as the ear picks up a restrained horn line here, a subtle vocalization there, and then a percussive counter–rhythm somehow missed the first time.
Michael Ramos - musical visionary, multi-instrumentalist, studio whiz, producer, sideman extraordinaire (John Mellencamp; Patty Griffin, Paul Simon, ex-Bodean and ex-Rembrandt – but don’t let that pedigree fool you...) - presents the first CD from Charanga Cakewalk: Loteria del la Cumbia Lounge. The CD was produced and recorded at Ramos’ Cumbia Lounge - both a real and “virtual” studio.