In 1992, Eduardo Llerenas met an English journalist working in Mexico, Mary Farquharson, one of three people who had founded the British independent label World Circuit, five years earlier. Together they set up Discos Corason with the aim of promoting the recordings that Llerenas had made over the years and which had only reached a very limited public under his original label, Música Tradicional.

Five years later, with a catalogue of some 20 recordings of Mexican and Caribbean traditional music, Corason had begun to be recognized in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe as a company that produced and promoted high quality recordings of traditional music that was otherwise difficult to hear outside its own region.

At that time, almost no other producer was interested in original Cuban Mexican son. There were plenty of folk bands in Mexico City but it was very hard to hear the musicians who had inherited their tradition over several generations in the region where the music was first created.