Ever wondered where the intoxicating sound of Family Atlantica comes from?
We asked Luzmira Zerpa and Jack Yglesias (founder members of the band) to share with us some of their music influences and inspirations and the following video playlist is a journey to discover el ritmo de la Familia!
Cacao is taken from the new Family Atlantica album Cosmic Unity. Available now on Soundway Records. Available to buy here: http://smarturl.it/CosmicUnityDirec...
This video was filmed in Salt Pond, Ghana in between hanging with Ebo Taylor for his 80th birthday. Lyrics are our version of a traditional Afro-Venezuelan song from the Cacao plantations of the Caribbean coast, mixed with psychedelic highlife dance rhythms and a touch of blues. Pure Family Atlantica.
Directed: Jack Yglesias
Edit/Effects: Shona Hamilton
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MUSIC FROM PLANET EARTH: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
Soundway Records was conceived in 2002 by label owner Miles Cleret whilst returning from Ghana with a hoard of dusty old 45s and LPs that had mostly not been heard outside the former Gold Coast since their original release. Planned on a whim the trip was not one of the carefully planned research expeditions that Miles would later embark on to any number of far-flung tropical destinations. On the contrary he left England with no idea of what he might find or that it might be the start of a career in the record business.
Although the label has it's roots in West Africa the scope has grown to include many other parts of the tropical belt with the aim of making available recordings that have in most cases never been available outside of their original countries and often not even there for over 30 years. Over the years Soundway's modus operandi has been to approach the music from a different angle from many of the more established "World Music" labels. By focusing on more obscure artists as well as big names and often concentrating on progressive recordings more in sync with Cleret's generation and background in DJ culture and dance-music. Styles have included afro-beat, funk, highlife, ethio-jazz, molam, calypso, cumbia, champeta, biguine, latin-jazz and disco as well as many unclassifiable recordings.
Since 2012 Soundway has begun releasing new material from a carefully selected handful of contemporary recording artists including acclaimed acts Ondatropica, Bomba Estereo and Ibibio Sound Machine
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Música de Venezuela
Letra:
Camino del llano viene
Puntero en la soledad
El cabestrero cantando, ay
Su copla en la madrugá
Ahó... a... a...
El toro pita la vaca
Y el novillo se retira
Como el novillo era toro
La vaca siempre lo mira
Mariposa, nube de agua
La luna busca la sombra
Y no la puede encontrar
Porque la sombra se esconde
Aaaa Detrás de la madrugá
Ahó... a... a...
No llores más nube de agua
Silencia tanta amargura
Que toda leche da queso
Y toda pena se cura
Lucerito nube de agua
Ya viene la mañanita
Cayendo sobre el palmar
Y el cabestrero prosigue
Con su doliente cantar
Ahó... a... a...
Mañana cuando me vaya
Quien se acordará de mi
Solamente la tinaja
Por el agua que bebí
Lucerito nube de agua
Sounds from the father of Ethio-jazz, originally released on the LP Yekatit - Ethio Jazz (1972) ft - Giovanni Rico (Bass); Tèmarè Harègu (Drums); Fèqadu Amdé-Mesqel (Flute); Andrew Wilson (Guitar); Mulatu (Keyboards); Fèqadu Amdé-Mesqel, Mogus Habte (Sax); Yohannès Tèkolla (Trumpet).
Classic ode to president Sékou Touré (Guinea) by Les Ambassadeurs featuring singer Salif Keita and guitarist Manfila Kanté. From Malian television, early 1980s.
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