Friday, April 25, 2014

Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera - Radio Bakongo


There are more music styles than there are words in a dictionary I think :-) So here is the next one: Champeta Criolla. Come again? How did that happen?

Well you take a small village on the Colombian coast (Palenque) where they love music and import slaves from all over Africa and sit and wait for a couple of hundreds of years. 

By then all African rhythms are mixed in. Kept alive by their descendants and the world changes. So people from Cuba start to arrive and bring Son Montuno, and seamen from Africa bring their old Highlife and Soukous records.

Blend it and your village becomes the place to be for music lovers and a new style is born. First popular in the black ghettos it started to spread quickly all over Colombia and beyond.

Batata is considered to be the king of this genre.


Track
Artist
Song
BPM







1
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
Radio Champeta Cartagena - Radio Bakongo (Intro)
118
2
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
Ataole
118
3
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
Arriba voy, abajo vengo
116
4
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
El cascabel
107
5
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
La vida es muy bonita
101
6
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
Fuego
119
7
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
Clavo y Martillo
142
8
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
Las cruces de palenque
91
9
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera
Pobre mi corazon
116

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