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Latin Playground | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Putumayo World Music
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
Buy New: $8.42
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 10920
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 201
UPC: 790248020129
EAN: 0790248020129
ASIN: B000066RKP
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Guantanamera - Omara Portuondo | | • | Anna (El Negro Zumbon) - Pink Martini | | • | Cielito - Colibri | | • | El Reino del Reves - Botafogo | | • | La Arcana Picua - Los 50 de Joselito | | • | Viva Vargas Torres - Margarita Laso | | • | Chispa Tren - Ska Cubano | | • | Mardi Gras Mambo - Cubanismo | | • | Fusion Natural - Matato'a | | • | Hanal Weech - Lila Downs | | • | Bomba Le Le - Jose Gonzalez y Banda Criolla |
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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.
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Fun CD! November 16, 2008
Great CD! Nice to listen to even for parents! Makes us want to dance around the living room.
 Fun May 11, 2008
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 Lover January 22, 2008
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 music November 11, 2007
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 dance November 11, 2007
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.
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