EGREM - Areito Records (cover designer: unknown), "Conjunto Los Pinares: La Música Campesina," Pre-Edición Varadero 81, 1981. Vinyl LP, 33 RPM.

The minimalist cover design for this special pre-edition release employs a stark, elegant typography in teal and burnt orange against a cream background. The austere presentation befits its status as a limited collector's edition released specifically for the Festival de Música Latinoamericana y del Caribe (Varadero 81). A green informational box in the lower right corner announces this as "ESTE DISCO DE LARGA DURACIÓN SE PRESENTA COMO PRE-EDICIÓN LIMITADA REALIZADA PARA COLECCIONISTAS" (This long-playing record is presented as a limited pre-edition made for collectors), noting it was recorded at the Areito and Siboney studios of EGREM in 1981. The italic subtitle "la música campesina" emphasizes the album's focus on rural Cuban folk traditions.

This album showcases Conjunto Los Pinares performing música campesina, the traditional rural music of the Cuban countryside rooted in Spanish décima poetry and punto cubano song forms. The distinctive sky-blue Areito record label features the Taíno mask logo and clearly identifies the genre as "MUSICA CAMPESINA DE CUBA." Track listings reveal the diversity of campesino musical forms: seguidilla, punto fijo, and various tonadas (peasant songs) including "Tonada Marichal," "Tonada de Justo Vega," "Tonada mili mili," "Tonada del Tartamudo," and "Tonada ja ja ja." The album also includes "Mi casita, guajira de salón" (My Little House, a parlor-style guajira) and other traditional forms like "Tonada guantanamera," "Tonada tumba y tumba," "Tonada del burro," and "Malatena sandunguera, guaracha."

Música campesina represents the cultural heritage of Cuba's guajiro (peasant farmer) class, preserving poetic traditions brought from the Canary Islands and Andalusia that evolved uniquely in Cuban soil. The music typically features tres guitar, laúd, guitar, maracas, claves, and güiro, with singers improvising décimas in the punto guajiro style. This pre-edition release, recorded during the Varadero Festival, documents these vital folk traditions at a moment when EGREM was actively preserving and promoting Cuban vernacular music alongside more internationally recognized styles. The festival context and limited collector's edition status underscore the cultural importance of maintaining these rural musical traditions within revolutionary Cuba's cultural policy.