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55 albums · 1935–2017

Music of Uruguay, from candombe and Zitarrosa to Los Shakers, Jaime Roos, Drexler and today

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A candombe comparsa at the Desfile de Llamadas, a dancer in orange feathers in front of the painted drums
The murga Asaltantes con Patente singing in costume and painted faces on the carnival stageJaime Roos playing an acoustic guitar on stage, in black and white
The Desfile de Llamadas in Barrio Sur, Montevideo, 2020. Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · The murga Asaltantes con Patente at the Velódromo Municipal, Montevideo carnival 2024. Photo: Berna Gaitán Otarán, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Jaime Roos on stage in 2011. Photo: Cristian Menghi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Uruguay's popular music has the drums of candombe at its heart, the comparsas of the barrios Sur and Palermo in Montevideo, and around them Gardel's tango, shared with the far shore of the Río de la Plata, the canto popular of Alfredo Zitarrosa, Daniel Viglietti and Los Olimareños, the beat of Los Shakers and Los Mockers, Eduardo Mateo and El Kinto with candombe in the guitars, Rubén Rada, Hugo Fattoruso's Opa, Jaime Roos's Mediocampo, the rock of Los Estómagos, Los Traidores, Buitres, La Vela Puerca, No Te Va Gustar and El Cuarteto de Nos, the murga of Falta y Resto and Agarrate Catalina, Jorge Drexler, and Franny Glass, Luciano Supervielle, Florencia Núñez and Eli Almic today, with Fabini's symphonic pieces for a nod to the concert hall. The list has 55 records from 1935 to 2017, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made, Gardel counted as Uruguay's with a single anthology and El Kinto with the one in which its recordings survive; the comparsas' own records, the tango beyond a nod, the folk of the interior, cumbia and plena beyond Karibe con K and Sonido Caracol, and most of the classical tradition would each need a list of their own. About 38 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Rock 14%Folk & Country 8%Pop 6%Other 72%
  • Rock 14%
  • Folk & Country 8%
  • Pop 6%
  • Other 72%

The genres named most: uruguayan, rock, candombe, canto popular, pop, murga.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Uruguay 55. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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