Very be Careful

Here's an interview with the boys:


Very be Careful plays Vallenato, the folk music of Colombia's Carribean coast. They live in Los Angeles.

Here's a description of the Vallenato rhythms, from Wikipedia:
Vallenato consists of four beats or "airs" that are differentiated through their rhythmic structure and the melody chord structure the accordionist gives it. These are son, paseo, merengue, and puya. The son and the paseo have a 2/4 time and the merengue and the puya a 6/8 time.

* Son is played with heavy accentuation and cadence stressed on the low notes of the accordion on its left hand side. It's normally mournful and slow.

* Paseo is thought to be an off-shoot of the son. Its speed can vary and today is the most widely recorded air.

* Puya's main difference from the merengue is the length of its lyrics. In the last 40 years, accordion players have begun to play it faster, and each of the three instruments used in vallenato has a solo. It is considered the oldest of the four "airs," with roots in an ancient Indian dance of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

* Merengue is often confused with a Dominican genre with the same name, probably brought by related African tribal groups. It has a more narrative style and was often used to play décimas, a 10-line format with internal rhymes brought by the Spanish in the 16th century.