Conjunto Melodia (1991)

"Los Pleneros de la 21 gelled as a group in 1983, when conservatory-trained percussionist Juan "Juango" Gutiérrez followed his pride in his Puerto Rican culture and assembled a group of street-corner musicians in New York City to perform the signature genres of Afro-Puerto Rican music: bomba and plena. Los Pleneros de la 21 inhabit a vital and distinctive space in the contemporary Puerto Rican musical landscape. They navigate between forces frequently perceived as opposed to one another: tradition and innovation, street-based performance skills and formally trained musicianship, which appears in its most advanced form on their latest CD released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. In Para Todos Ustedes: Bomba y Plena desde Nueva York, Los Pleneros de la 21 give back to their community, and give to all of us, the gift that was given to them, the best of bomba and plena, wrapped in a musical package of their own creativity." (Smithsonian Folkways)

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