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Mambo Silbado

by Conjunto Ingeniería

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For the third single taken from El Palmas Music’s compilation of Conjunto Ingeniería’s finest work, we find the university students attacking a tune by one of their own. “Mambo Silbado” was originally released as “Whistling Mambo” in 1958 by Randy Carlos, a fellow Venezuelan who’d upped sticks for New York City in search of fame and fortune.

As the title suggests, there’s a bit of whistling involved, but what’s striking is how after the Les Baxter exotica whistling intro, this one really pounds into action. The guitar line that threatens to change things could have come from the Amazon jungle, and the greats of Amazonian cumbia, but this is 1961, way before that genre came to light, and this is a bunch of Venezuelan engineering students. It just goes to show you how far ahead of the game these lot were. When the mambo groove finally hits with waves of horns and percussion, it’s amazing to hear how much fuller the sound is than the Randy Carlos original, which was only a few years prior.

It’s no surprise that Conjunto Ingeniería became one of the most in-demand bands in Caracas at the time, where they were pioneers of the Latin jazz scene, and regulars at the clubs, quinceañeras and carnival,
where they once accompanied Celia Cruz. Their sound was born from their energy and enthusiasm for all the danceable Latin big band styles of the day, and also from a thirst to discover more, creating links to what was happening in New York so that they were always ahead of the game when it came to the latest sounds.

Conjunto Ingeníería - Compiled by El Palmas & El Dragón Criollo, which contains 12 tracks cherry-picked from the band’s three albums, will be released by El Palmas Music on October 28.

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released October 7, 2022

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Conjunto Ingeniería Caracas, Venezuela

Conjunto Ingeniería emerged at the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties of the 20th century.

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