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	Der Salsaholic - Gig Contacts - Arena (Venezuela)
		The Venezuelan band ARENA is the hybrid configuration of Afro-Caribbean sounds, Iberian odours and Latin-American colours expressed trough six musicians with a shared passion for warm and contagious music styles such as Salsa, Flamenco, Cuban Son, Timba, Rumba Española and Latino-jazz.
		The band was formed eight years ago by the inseparable duo of Leonardo Gil Beroes and Román Gerdel Esculpi; lead and second voices, rhythm and solo-guitarists and responsible for the songs.
		Within the band they unite the incredible solo- skills of guitar player Román, the authenticity of songwriter Leonardo, the contagious bass of Juan-Pablo and the percussive freshness and precision of Argentinean drummer Hugo Iozzolino and percussionists Harry and Bartolo.
	www.salsaholic.de /arena-e.htm (760 words)

	Guaco
		Guaco are an intergenerational group and have been around for more than 30 years.
		Since then the band has evolved into the one of the greatest tropical orchestras of all time.
		To my mind the music offered on this 2000 release, Equilibrio is a stunning example of what Guaco is all about….firmly Latin, imbued with a Venezuelan spirit, superbly composed melodies and arrangements that are as tight as a pin and rhythms that swirl out in polyphonic stacks.
	www.diaspora.com.au /html/reviews/latin_reviews/Guaco.htm (597 words)

	Guaco - Alternative medicine - Alternative medicine
		Indigenous peoples of the AmericasNative Americans and Colombians believe that the guaco was named after a species of kite (bird)kite, in imitation of its cry, which they say it uses to attract the snakes which it feeds on.
		It is stated that the Central American natives, after taking guaco, catch with impunity the most dangerous snakes, which writhe in their hands as though touched by a hot iron (B. Seemanii Hookers Journ.
		The odour alone of guaco, has been said to cause, in snakes, a state of stupor; and Humboldt, who observed that proximity of a rod steeped in guaco-juice was obnoxious to the venomous Coluber corallinus, was of opinion that inoculation with it gives perspiration an odour which makes reptiles unwilling to bite.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Guaco (407 words)

	>>Salsa DansSchool Degoor José Pinto<< (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The band plays passionate, intoxicating Latin American dance music, like salsa, merengue, cumbia, son, bolero, cha cha cha and bachata that will make party goers go out of their minds with enthousiasm and that has already enlivened many parties in the Netherlands and abroad.
		The band consists of a tight rhythm section, a brass section and tree vocalists(two male singers and a female singer).
		In 1993 this versatile band from Rotterdam was founded, consisting of 10 professional musicians: a percussion section, a horn section and 2 exotic singers.
	www.basicdesign.be /salsadjp/salsabands1.html (5383 words)

	Music of Venezuela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aldemaro Romero is a prolific venezuelan composer, he has created a wide range of music, such as Caribbean, jazz, Venezuelan waltzes, and symphonic works of great dimensions making and innovative work, which met with an astounding creativity and style the challenge to modernize Venezuelan folk music.
		Pop music and rock are very popular too, and several bands have had their rise and fall in the music scene.
		Venezuelan rock has strong influences from Argentinean bands, so their style may somewhat be placed into the same category.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Venezuela (624 words)

	Nucleus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The band is my little musical utopia; an oasis where I can play the way I want to without worrying about someone else's musical vision and how I can best adapt to it.
		The band was called “The Ernie Denov Band” for the first year or so, but I didn't want to give the impression that I was the star and the other guys were the sidemen.
		The band is a democracy in that everybody is encouraged to contribute their own input.
	www.nucleusprog.com.ar /ingles/r-baddogu.htm (1136 words)

	miaminewtimes.com \| Music \| Venezuelan Invasion
		Elbow to codo were four singers, three trumpets, a trombone, a tenor sax, bass, keyboards, electric guitar, a drum set, timbales, tumbadores, and bongos, as well as tamboras and the charrasca, two percussion instruments used to play gaita, the folkloric music of the Venezuelan plains.
		Looking for a way to identify themselves for gigs at weddings and house parties, they chose the name of a bird said to augur bad luck that happened to be flying overhead during their discussion.
		Guaco came back, jamming with the combined familiarity and freshness of musicians who know one another well enough to risk taking the music to a territory they do not know.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /Issues/2000-12-21/music/music2_full.html (1114 words)

	Ashe Records
		This concept truly reflects the values of Guaco, who have never lost their respect for their roots, whose music is as endlessly fertile as the natural world and whose creativity is as boundless as the Amazon jungle.
		GUACO is not just a band, it is truly a national treasure.
		GUACO is also a tropical plant from the rainforest, considered to have many healing qualities.
	www.asherecords.com /catalog/guaco.htm (521 words)

	Guaco
		Guaco is a 18-member band with breathtakingly tight musicianship and some amazing arrangements that borrow from salsa, 'gaita,' and other Afro-Caribbean rhythms, as well as from funk, jazz, pop, and rock, offering one of the most attractive Latin music proposals at present.
		The band has recorded 32 albums so far, and during the last fifteen years it has been the best-selling band in Venezuela.
		Guaco counts among its assiduous followers artists of the reputation of Rubén Blades, Carlos Santana, and Oscar de León, many of whom have worked and collaborated with the band in the past.
	www.redgrasshopper.co.uk /guaco.htm (441 words)

	George Graham Reviews Guaco's "Como Era Y Como Es"
		After 30 years together, Guaco has evolved into a remarkably eclectic ensemble with absolutely stellar musicianship and some head-spinning arrangements that borrow from salsa, South American dance beats, some Caribbean music, jazz, fusion, funk, and even some art rock in the tradition of Yes.
		Guaco's musical director, Juan Carlos Salas, by the way, is one of the trumpet players.
		Guaco is seems to delight in doing deceptive introductions to their songs, with the sound appearing to signal a commercial pop direction before suddenly turning toward more distinctive territory.
	georgegraham.com /reviews/guaco.html (1114 words)

	Guaco
		Named after a white bird symbolic of bad luck, the Venezuelan group Guaco is making a strong arrival with their first release in the U.S. Founded in 1972, this group has redefined gaitas from the Zulia State in the northwestern part of Venezuela.
		Gaita is a genre that is mainly performed during Christmas and New Year’s with a traditional Conjunto de gaita, composed of a Venezuelan cuatro, furro, tambora and a charrasca, and it was used as a channel of dissent during the dictatorship of the 1950’s.
		In the Eighties, Guaco added more modern instruments like brass and piano and produced arrangements highly influenced by Cuban songo, but they faithfully kept the characteristic tamborera as a base rhythm.
	www.lafi.org /magazine/reviews/guaco.html (246 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - World - Guide to World Music: Venezuela
		A Venezuelan institution, Billo's big band was founded when its leader arrived in Caracas in 1937 from his native Santo Domingo to take on a residency at the Roof Garden of the Hotel Madrid.
		D'Leon's old band, latterly proclaiming themselves 'Los Génerales de la Salsa', still put on a fine polished show, with impeccable co-ordinated uniform and dance steps, and three highly competent vocalists making up for the absence of their ex-boss and his star substitute, Andy Montañez.
		Formed in the 1960s as a Christmas festival percussion band, Guaco has grown into a dynamic, experimental and highly distinctive dance outfit.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/world/guidevenezuelad.shtml (903 words)

	Guaco : Como Era Y Como Es - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From their birth in the '60s to their leadership role in contemporary Latino music, working to build bridges and mix styles, the name Guaco has carried a level of excellence.
		Gustavo Aguado, lead vocalist and maestro of this enormous band, has done an amazing job weaving together traditional salsa, North American funk elements, timba, and a myriad other contemporary influences to arrive at this record's lush rain forest of sound.
		The rhythm section is among the tightest of the day, the horn section is punchy and creatively arranged, and the percussion section is agonizingly funky, using the modern drums-timbales-conga combination.
	www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,921351-569883,00.html (347 words)

	Ashe Records
		Cuatro super-star Yomo Toro is the king of the parrandas, and his all-star band bring a swinging urban sound to original and traditional aguinaldos, plenas and bombas.
		Guaco has been Venezuela's most popular group for over thirty years.
		From their humble beginnings as a traditional gaita group on the streets of Maracaibo to their evolution into one of the greatest tropical orchestras of all time, Guaco truly represents the Venezuelan spirit.
	www.asherecords.com /shop.htm (720 words)

	Selector's Choice
		Guaco has always reveled in the sandbox of experimentation; most certainly they are way out there on the radical wing.
		Guaco should be megastars of the Latin music bizeven the salsa romantica tunes like "I Want to See Me in Your Eyes" have a fresh and jumping arrangement, which shows up just how vacuous the assembly-line arrangements are for the insipid pretty boys and girls who unfortunately have a monopoly in the salsa romantica area.
		The female says she wants to be called Feline Dion, and after I had explained to the male that there already was a band called the Super Furry Animals, he is now set on calling his group the Furry Underground.
	www.technobeat.com /HUCKER/Selector.html (2563 words)

	Passion Music mail-order CDs: Venezuelan Salsa and Latin Jazz and Hiphop CDs. Frank Quintero, Watussi, Guaco, La Corte ...
		With Golden and Platinum records across Latin America in the last 20 years, his album "BIEN" reached No.1 in the Venezuelan charts, as well as been part of the soundtrack of a mainstream TV soap opera broadcast to Latin America, USA and Spain.
		These are part of the creative and personal approach of the band and its investigative labour.
		This band's productions are a constellation of sounds such as Latin rhythms mixed with Hip-Hop on an East Coast Rap tradition.
	www.passiondiscs.co.uk /salsa_int_01/salsa_calle_page_03.htm (502 words)

	WOMEX 2003 --- Virtual Concert Hall --- provided by Mondomix
		GUACO, Venezuela's biggest band, performs a blend of Afro-Caribbean rhythms based on Traditional "Gaita" hythm from western Venezuela mixed with salsa, funk and house music.
		A high standard of performance an arrangements played by a strong 19-piece band, GUACO is the latin response to Earth, Wind and Fire!
		Guaco has been around since the late 1960s, when they started as a band performing traditional styled Venezuelan garitas, but over the years, they expanded in both musical scope and size, gradually adding instruments and influences, first percussion, then horns.
	www.mondomix-media.com /womex/ShowcasesIN/pagewomex-in.php?artiste_id=43 (446 words)

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		(Guaco.) A fellow member of the B.B. list once asked me to find out here in Miami about a CD from a Venezuelan Group named Guaco.
		I think I remember Billy saying something around the time of "Workers Playtime" to suggest that Joe Boyd had pushed him in the direction of having more bass and drums on the record, but overall it seems to be Billy's decision how much to orchestrate the songs, even if he doesn't do all the arrangements.
		It might have been nice to have had one proper Red Stars album - new songs recorded with the band in the studio, then taken out on the road with the same lineup - but it wasn't to be.
	www.things.org /music/billy_bragg/digest_archives/v01.n582 (734 words)

	Drummerszone.com drum news, percussion news & music news
		At the age of 16, he was already playing with leading bands in Maracaibo such as Guaco, Combinacion and Carangano (where he shared the responsibilities with Archie Peña, Jose Luis Garcia, and Federico Britos).
		After this experience, he went to Caracas for bigger opportunities, and it was there that he started his own band "La Crema", recorded an album, and even got to be Number Two in Venezuelan radio’s Top 50.
		He was also percussion player to Ricardo Montaner (the Venezuelan singer who for many years has been among the top artists in South, Central, and North America) for about four years, and part of a television program called "Almorzando con Orlando", where he was both percussion player and musical director.
	www.drummerszone.com /news/newsItem.php?n01ID=2824&type=1 (380 words)

	OurLatinThing.com Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Domingo 02 de Abril del 2006 - Mary's band @ Robertson Stadium.
		Sabado 14 de Enero del 2006 - Mary's Band en Plaza 59.
		Sabado 12 de Noviembre del 2005 - Mary's Band en Plaza 59.
	www.ourlatinthing.com (93 words)

	'LA'Ritmo.com - 'Latin American' Rhythm Magazine
		To be specific, one of the reasons why that happens is because don't have a lot of planning or rehearsal for the records anymore, we just kind of show up.
		I don't recommend this for people who are just starting out but a band that has been together as long as we have, the part that engages us is the discovery part.
		A lot of the band is locked into a certain time zone so we don't really pay as much attention to what kind of stuff is going on all around out there.
	www.laritmo.com /mag?id=1638 (1961 words)

	Bacha @ peermusic - The Independent Major
		BACHÁ is a duo composed of Juliana Barrios and Jorge Luis Chacín, two talented singer-songwriters.
		She has a long and prosperous trajectory as an actress, singer, and songwriter.
		He later joined the bands Carángano and Guaco, and collaborated as a singer, songwriter and producer on five of their most significant albums (including Triceratops, Archipiélago and Amazonas).
	www.peermusic.com /artistpage/Bacha.html (583 words)

	Bruuuce.com - JV Collier
		I had toured with a band called (Was Not Was), and the guitar player from that gig told John about me. I started playing full time with the band just before Woodstock.
		would come to band class and hold court two to three times a week.
		One of the fun and different things about this band is, that this never feels like the Bruce show only.
	www.bruuuce.com /jv.htm (1138 words)

	'LA'Ritmo.com - 'Latin American' Rhythm Magazine
		I had the concept of putting together a small ensemble with a big band sound to perform music typical of that played by artist such as Tito Puente, Machito, and Tito Rodriguez.
		In addition to original compositions and arrangements, included in the band's repertoire are big band Mambos, Cha Cha Cha, Son Montunos, Bomba and Plena, Boleros, Merengue and Latin jazz.
		The band is a nine member musical ensemble bringing to life songs made popular by Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Machito, Johnny Pacheco, Ismael Rivera, Raphael Cortijo, El Gran Combo and Los Van Van.
	www.laritmo.com /mag/index.php3?id=757 (1129 words)

	Guaco - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Legendary salsa group from Venezuela Guaco started playing traditional folklore in the 1960s, later turning to tropical style.
		As the band was getting involved in the local scene, a growing number of followers made them one of the most popular acts all over the country.
		Led by singer Gustavo Aguado, the 22-piece act had the opportunity to go beyond Venezuelan frontiers while releasing its music in the U.S. and Europe in the late '90s.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,569883,00.html (225 words)

	Various Artists More I Love Salsa CD
		The bands of Willie Rosario and Roberto Roena, Bobby Valentin and Raphy Levitt, the arrangements of Fran Ferrer and Gunda Merced and of course the towering inspirational influence over everything of songwriters like Tite Curet Alonso, Omar Alfanno, Hector Lavoe and Roberto Angelero.
		Although not specifically stated, the album is a homage to the greatest ‘pure’ Puerto Rican band of all, Tito Rodriguez.
		No modern salsa compilation is complete without a nod to African roots and this is the band who, under the tutelage of producer Ibrahim Sylla, have truly formalised an already growing recognition among congnoscenti of the strength and depth of West African salsa.
	www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk /titlev4.php?ALBUM_ID=144&LABEL_ID=2 (1761 words)

	Luisito Quintero Bio
		Luisito soon after joined the popular music ensembles Grupo Guaco and El Trabuco Venezolano, and traveled extensively with Oscar D’Leon, where he enjoyed worldwide exposure.
		As well as being an inspirational influence Luisito is also a member of the Elements of Life band which has been touring for the past three years.
		The band has shared stages with some of the top artist in the business, such as Robert Plant, Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys.
	www.mawrecords.com /bios2/pages/Luisitobio.html (490 words)

	Latin Bassists (Electric only): Any suggestions? [Archive] - TalkBass Forums
		He was a member of a very popular merengue band called Coco Band and he quit to release his solo project, which was a smash hit.
		Maybe in a Salsa band (although haven't see the first either - in that case they'd use an electric upright, which is very common), but not in a Merengue band.
		It used to be that great until the lead singer was killed because he supposedly was using the band's tours for washing dollars (and maybe drug traffic) and he paid a mistake with his life.
	www.talkbass.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-199046.html (11566 words)

	Venezuela Travel Report - December 2000
		The most famous gaita-band is the almost 40 years-young superband Guaco that in addition also performs salsa, be-it with a rather electrical and funky sound.
		Both Guaco and Maracaibo 15 originate from Maracaibo.
		We have been lucky and had the opportunity to see both bands live on stage.
	cityguides.salsaweb.com /belgium/reports/2001/20010120venezuelatravel/Caracas&Co_en.htm (1165 words)

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