The low–slung mountains and rural villages of eastern El Salvador are home to one of the most joyous yet little-known regional musics of Latin America. Called chanchona—“big pig,” the local name for the string bass—it is music made by and for country people. When the family group Los Hermanos Lovo fled the civil war of the 1980s and 1990s, they took their homegrown music with them to Washington, D.C. There, the lively sounds of the cumbia are as much an invitation to dance as a way of creating a sense of “home” and cultural solidarity.

Tracklist:

El Carnaval De Mi Tierra (The Carnival Of My Land)
La Salvadoreña (The Salvadoran Woman)
Amapulapa
Así Somos Nosotros (That's How We Are)
Así Somos Nosotros (That's How We Are)
Canto A Mi Patria (I Sing To My Homeland)
Las Tres Fronteras (The Three Borders)
La Moneda (The Coin)
El Carnaval De San Miguel (The San Miguel Carnival)
El Carbonero (The Charcoal Maker)
Aunque Me Duela Perderte (Even Though It Pains Me To Lose You)
El Mojado (The Wetback)
Viajando Por América (Traveling Through America)
La Secretaria (The Secretary)

UPC: 093074053522
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 9.13.11
Format: CD

Los Hermanos Lovo - Soy Salvadore: Los Hermanos Lovo Chanchona Music From Eastern El Salvador (CD)