Grupo Mono Blanco - "Toro zacamandú (The Zacamandú Bull)" [Studio Session]

Watch the studio recording session for "Toro zacamandú (The Zacamandú Bull)" by Grupo Mono Blanco, from '¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos from Veracruz' out on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. This hard-driving song features Gisela Farías's clarion voice and rural, declamatory singing style and the percussive sounds of zapateado footwork by Iván Fernández and his sister Lucero Fernández. "Hey, hey, let's herd all the cattle,/for the rains are coming. Hey, hey, the lowlands are flooding,/and the highlands are going away."
Directed and filmed by Charlie Weber
Edited by Matthew Archibald
'¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos from Veracruz' available on CD and Digital.
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Grupo Mono Blanco changed the course of music history. Beginning in 1977, Gilberto Gutiérrez led the grassroots Mexican musical group in launching a back-to-the-future renaissance, digging deep into the rural culture of Veracruz, bringing it to the forefront of musical life, and igniting a major “people’s music” movement that spread throughout Mexico, the United States, and beyond. Melding past and present, Mono Blanco breathes fresh life into the sounds of traditional stringed instruments, percussion, poetic improvisation, and the fandango community celebration.
This album is the 47th in the Smithsonian Folkways Tradiciones/Traditions Series of Latino music albums, produced with support from the Smithsonian Latino Center.
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[@olybb5787]

Me quito el sombrero.. hasta la piel se enchina con esta versión, las voces, el zapateado.. todo es hermoso ♥ ¡Qué viva el son jarocho y que viva Mono Blanco!

[@nierikajazz]

Saludos desde el Estado de México a todos los integrantes de Mono blanco.

[@danielolvera4728]

Mi San Andrés Tuxtla, como te extraño.

[@danielroca3936]

This song has been heard here in Tlacotalpan Veracruz Mexico since 200 hundred years ago even Antonio Lopes de Santana one of the first presidents of Mexico every time he came to Tlacotalpan Veracruz. He always liked it to listen to this song. History said that. Also, Benito Juárez and I listen to this song since I was a child in Los Fandangos Traditional music from this region of Mexico.

[@perlarobles6162]

Me parece maravilloso este estribillo con la imagen de la vaquería tan bien declarada por la voz de Gisela Farias, que nos abraza a todas las mujeres de Veracruz con su canto en el son.

[@Jim_Morgan0]

QUE BUENA ROLA ES ESA, MI PROFE DE MUSICA SIEMPRE LA PONE, ESTA MUY BUENA LA MUSICA

[@billharrison4930]

OMG. Fandango, Son Jarochos !!! Addictive. To bad that my fellow US citizens think that Mariachi is the only music from Mexico. Grupo Mono Blanco is certainly on of the best exports of this genre!!!

[@joseangelcobosfarias9949]

Que bueno que se difunda el son jarocho por todo el mundo, felicidades

[@CloudyDreams]

Ohh God listening to Mono Blanco is like drinking the best Wine. Love it thank you Smithsonian like always you guys know where to find the best of the best.

[@wuicholararequintojarocho.7559]

Hijole está genial, me hubiera gustado un poco de puras percusiones y la vos de Gisela que tiene una fuerza clara para cantar, excelente amigos míos saludos.

[@itzelsanchezgamafotografia8642]

Que disfrute siempre con Mono Blanco!

[@michaelpollitt6333]

Very fine. Thanks.

[@sonesdemarimba4999]

Puro sabor!!

[@cafeliznavarro8768]

Originalmente hermoso!

[@gpmora7871]

¡Bravo! 👏🏼

[@enriqueescalona]

Belleza americana.

[@DARISSSWOLF]

Maravilloso !!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@kronostico]

Muy bonito el final

[@elproyectodejonas]

[@DilettanteXyz]

Wouldn't "Toro" be "bull", not "ball"?

[@SmithsonianFolkways]

Corrected.

[@lunacatfish]

too much yelling instead of singing for my taste but appreciate the talent.

[@CarlosGonzalez-pn5ug]

No mas como q la chava derrepente las estrofas como q no riman

[@0efilio]

No creo que lo hagas mejor que ella.

[@CarlosGonzalez-pn5ug]

0efilio no digas mamadas

[@gabrieluriarte2002]

asi es. pero que precioso se atraviesa con el son.

[@gabrieluriarte2002]

la música la hace suya a su capricho. divino. saludos a Gisela.

[@CarlosGonzalez-pn5ug]

Si yo nunca dije q cantara feo ,más bien como q le puso mucha crema a sus tacos...los gritos q avienta tampoco m gustaron