Music of the Month
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Our Music of the Month selection for December 2021
Petrona Martinez
Ancestras

Martinez

"With Ancestras, Martínez pays vivid homage to her own culturally vital matriarchal lineage; to the women of the transatlantic African Diaspora more broadly; and to her artistic compatriots, whom she affectionately refers to as petronistas." - Michael Stone in his RootsWorld review

Legendary Afro-Colombian singer Petrona Martínez crosses borders as she collaborates with 14 women of the African diaspora—including Angelique Kidjo, Susana Baca, and Aymée Nuviola - on Ancestras. She places the bullerengue tradition she inherited from her ancestresses in dialogue with many genres (afrobeat, jazz, mariachi, rumba, timba, Dominican salve, etc.), and languages of the global south (Fon, Garífuna, Palenquero, Wayu, Bahian Portuguese, etc.) She is joined on this journey with a host of women from around the world: Susana Baca (Perú), Nidia Góngora (Timbiquí), Angelique Kidjo (Benin, África), Aymée Nuviola (Cuba), Flor de Toloache (New York, USA), Xênia França (Brasil), Enerolisa Nuñez (República Dominicana), Neta (Honduras), Yomira John (Panamá), Eryen Korath (Buenaventura, Colombia), Brianna Thomas (New York, USA), Anggie Bryan (San Andrés, Colombia), Mónica Carrillo (Perú), Mai Elka Prado (Panamá).

Ancestras privileges us with music and voice as a politics of expression, preservation, and dissemination of thought, a gift from the octogenarian matriarch to the women and men of the world.

Read our review in RootsWorld.

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Listen "Ay Mi Gallina" (Afrobeat-Chalupa)
with Angelique Kidjo

Listen "Bobby" [Son Palenque-Rumba Pacifica)
with Nidia Gongora & Eryen Korath

Listen "El Niño Roncón (Bullerengue Chalupiao)
with Susana Baca

Listen "(Ni)ño Carabali" [Bullerengue-Mariachi]
with. Flor de Toloache

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(and save a little on postage for more than one CD).

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Buy the CD for a 22.00 donation (includes US post)
Buy the CD for a 30.00 donation (outside US)

You can also buy previous Music of the Month titles in our shop (and save a little on postage for more than one CD).

 

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