''El Garrasí'' is a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor

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, released in 1959, with the

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Cymbal. The album features popular Venezuelan pieces, continuing with the modernization of Venezuelan folk music, upgrading it from folk instrumentations to full modern orchestral versions, and making it palatable to international audiences, and the presentation of two compositions by Romero, ''El Garrasí'' and ''Dos Golondrinas''. Romero explains at the back cover of the album, the process of recording, the origin of his new compositions and his travel to

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*The album was recorded in October 1958 at the Columbia Recording Company studios in

. *The ''Garrasí'' is part of the Venezuelan plains popular clothing. *Some of the musicians at the recording were part of the

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. 1959 albums Aldemaro Romero albums Albums produced by Aldemaro Romero {{1950s-folk-album-stub