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Release Date: 1981Label: Areito
El Tambor Yuka is a festival held yearly in a province known as El Guayabo, Pinar Del Rio in Cuba, which was formally sugar cane fields tended to by Cuban slaves [owned] by Eurpopeans, and this is the music the Cubans played on Sundays. FYI: The drummers in this Vol. 5 recording are drunk, one of whom even threatens to hit another guy in the head with the Guataca (hand held hoe for gardening)Fiesta De Bembe is the title on Side A. Tambor Yuka is the title on Side B.
Egrem (Empresa De Grabaciones Y Ediciones Musicales) 1981. Recorded in 1978.