Lucho Y Su Orquesta Bermudez The Coastal Invasion: Cumbia, Porro, Gaita & Mapalé from Colombia’s Caribbean Coast (1946-1961) 03/02/1987 Over The River Charlie B4

Over The River Charlie B4

but rather writing about the way his own limited experience and perspective of the band’s place can lift the veils of false narratives

‘Mind Maze’ was recorded in Brooklyn

As told by Patrick Watson

you get a sliver of an idea and you think

Lucho Y Su Orquesta Bermudez The Coastal Invasion: Cumbia, Porro, Gaita & Mapalé from Colombia’s Caribbean Coast (1946-1961) 03/02/1987 Over The River Charlie B4'The Coastal Invasion highlights the golden age of big band cumbia and the maestro who is often seen as Colombias most influential composer, Lucho Bermudez. Bermudez was a key figure who modernised the tropical music of Colombia's Caribbean coast. At the beginning of the 20th century, this music was largely looked down on. Bermudez changed all that by injecting a modern, jazzy big band sound to the Afro Colombian sounds from his native region. The