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Product Description A fiesta of upbeat Latin American music for children and families. Putumayo invites children of all ages on a fun and educational musical journey through Latin America with Latin Playground, a collection of upbeat songs by well- known artists from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and more. Putumayo's highly successful and critically acclaimed series of world music for kids has introduced children to world music from more than 20 countries and Latin Playground continues in the same tradition.
Amazon.com Before you stomp around a Putumayo playground, park your preconceived notions at the picnic bench. The label may not set the world-music crowd on fire with its regular releases, but this series, aimed at kids but translating up, sizzles. Latin Playground's party gets started with a wind-you-up traditional Cuban number (Omara Portuondo's "Guantanamera") and from there traverses North, South, and Central America, making stops in Mexico City, Colombia, the American Tejano region, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico. There are sample wacko lyrics ("The day will come when I will leave you / Because you smell like the armadillo," from Lila Downs's "Hanal Weech"), unexpected instrumentation (accordions punch up the polka flavoring of Flaco Jiminez's conjunto, "De Bolon Pin Pon"), and not a whiff of what's expected from the latest slice off a music education program--even the informative, engaging liner notes are gentle gatekeepers to a land of rhythms everybody wants to get into and get down with. Forget the kids--see if you can make it through Cubanismo's "Mardi Gras Mambo," Nazare Pereira's "Rodopiou," and Carmen Gonzalez's "Chocolate" without waving a set of air maracas or busting into a booty-shaking session to make Ricky Martin blush. --Tammy La Gorce
Customer Reviews:
Fun CD!November 16, 2008 First Time Mom Great CD! Nice to listen to even for parents! Makes us want to dance around the living room.
FunMay 11, 2008 Eugene Spanier(Etobicoke, Ontario Canada) These songs are plain and simply, fun. We just let the CD play and everybody likes it. I will buy more in the Playground series.
Music LoverJanuary 22, 2008 Anna's Mom 2006(SE Pennsylvania) This is a good CD but I was expecting something a bit more up beat by the what the other reviews had posted. The playlist is composed of what would be considered "country" latin music.
Lovely dancing musicNovember 11, 2007 Milos Ristic If you're looking for a CD to make a party of a 30-something crowd in your apartment dance, or if you want your kid, whether he's from Guatemala or Kazakhstan to learn the basics of salsa and mambo, this is the CD for you!
Makes you want to danceNovember 11, 2007 Susan Doman(APO, AE United States) This is a very fun collection that doesn't get old. My daughter's Bolivian nanny usually reaches for this CD first, although we love all the Putumayo kids CDs.
