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The song opens with three drummers tapping theirpanderos. The largest of the panderos -- a handdrum called the seguidor -- provides the pulse ofthe music. Two smaller hand drums -- the segundoand the requinto -- weave in and out of that beat. Each pandero adds a layer to the complex, syncopated rhythm I immediately recognize as that of plena music. A maraca and an accordionchime in and are soon joined by the ratchet -- like scrape of the güiro. Next, the singers pipeup, one calling and two others responding in a playful chant. As the music builds to acrescendo, I detect a twist on the traditional Puerto Rican folk style: a trombone bursts inand then a clarinet. They add an element of big band jazz. Underneath the fused musicalstyles, though, the classic plena rhythm, propelled, by the panderos, beats on.
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