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DAPTONE RECORDS

Orquesta Akokan - Caracoles Orquesta Akokan

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Genre: World Music.
Format: Vinyl LP
Condition: Brand New
Release date: Jul 19, 2024
Catalogue number: DAP077LP
Barcode: 0823134007710

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On this, their third album, they combine talents with Cuban lyricist, singer and composer Kiko Ruiz, who has toured and recorded with Pancho Amats illustrious Estrellas del Buena Vista Social Club as well as having a longstanding history as a singer, composer and arranger with Orquesta Maria Alejandra y Cubanía. Caracoles ushers (GRAMMY-award nominated) Orquesta Akokáns unique brand of mambo into the 21st century, imbuing it with the groups signature sense of akokán–a Cuban Yoruba word meaning “from the heart”. Back at the helm are producer and multi instrumentalist, Jacob Plasse and virtuosic pianist, composer and arranger Michael Eckroth - a collaboration that continues to lead Orquestas exploration of the sublime mambo in all its depth and breadth. And although Caracoles is of this moment, its raices stretch deep into the past, presenting a glorious return to the iconic grooves of an era indelibly marked by Benny Moré, Perez Prado and Machito in New York bands and Cubas orquestas gigantes of the mid-twentieth century. While some songs are everyday Cuban life story-telling, Ruiz, a tata —priest— informs his lyrics with a Palo Mayombe spirituality propelling the mambo back to its original meaning. Despite being popularised world-wide as a festive, light-spirited, danceable genre, mambo is not to be taken lightly in the Palo Mayombe religion. Mambo is both a song and a prayer, beseeching good spirits to guide ones journey away from darkness. Two of the albums songs —including the title tune— are in this Congo dialect, designed to be impenetrable by the uninitiated. Caracoles fierce, effervescent grooves, Ruiz affirms, can “...vibrate your soul, which is precisely what the world needs right now”. The tunes offer an irresistible invitation to heed the title songs invitation, “Cucha mambo que yo emboa montero...este mambo es pa ti.” Listen to this story, I bring it to you as a travelling song...This mambo is for you. Tracklisting: 1. Con Licencia 2. Pan Con Tibiri 3. Caracoles 4. Suave Suave 5. Cha-Cha-Cha Pa’ca 6. La Fiera 7. Pregonero 8. Las Sieta Vidas Da Inés 9. Flor De Mi Campo 10. Dona Felipa
Format: Vinyl LP

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