Siembra

📖 About this album

Landmark 1978 salsa album by Rubén Blades and Willie Colón, blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms with sharp social and political commentary. One of the best-selling and most influential salsa records ever made.

📝 Our review

Siembra is the bible of political salsa. Rubén Blades and Willie Colón used the genre as a vehicle for social commentary with unprecedented precision and elegance. «Pedro Navaja» is a short novel in song form. «Plástico» and «María Lionza» complete an album where nothing is wasted. The combination of biting brass, perfect rhythm and lyrically rich songs remains hard to match four decades on.

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