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1- CHAMPETA CRIOLLA, A NEW AFRICAN MUSIC FROM COLOMBIA (PALENQUE RECORDS/ NIGHT & DAY ) - USA DISTRIBUTION : FORCED EXPOSURE

2- SEXTETO TABALA (OCORA RADIO FRANCE-HARMONIA MUNDI).

3-CHAMPETA CRIOLLA VOL 2, "VISIONNARY BLACK MUSIC FROM UNDERGROUND COLOMBIAFRICA" (PALENQUE RECORDS-NIGHT-DAY)

4- SEXTETO TABALA : REYES DEL SON PALENQUERO (BUDA RECORDS-UNIVERSAL) .

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9- SON PALENQUE – SAMBA – LP – HONES JONS (UK)

10- PALENQUE PALENQUE – SOUNDWAY RECORDS/PALENQUE RECORDS

11- SEXTETO TABALA – “CON UN SOLO PIE” –PALENQUE RECORDS /OM PRODS

PALENQUE RECORDS presente :

CHAMPETA VOL 2 

New directions in afro-american music

señoras y señores - ladys and raggas

champetuas & champetuos :

Was’up mi gente!!! Palenque Records revient avec son ashé africain, fier et heureux de vous amener la musique afro-colombienne de la côte caraïbe : la Champeta Criolla, le nouvel univers musical crée par les noirs inspirés de ma terre loco-mbienne : guitares africaines avec les voix du barrio, soukous latino, highlife afro-américain, afro-beat mariguano-tropical, Cumbia Soweto, en d'autres mots : un mélange fou de musiques sans passeport...

Chers mélomanes : la Champeta est le rythme le plus explosif sorti du ventre des caraïbes cette fin de siècle; avec elle commence l'écriture du "Nouveau Testament de la Musique Afro-américaine".

Ce disque est une porte d'entrée dans l'espace solaire champetuo, un univers infini, rempli de planètes et de constellations, de dieux musicaux, de portes d'entrées à l'histoire de deux continents qui se parlent depuis des siècles, en s'envoyant des messages musicaux à travers la mer. Durant une heure et 15 min vous voyagerez avec nous, dans la navette spatiale que Palenque Records, Superchampeta Man et Mc IBA ont construit patiemment à cet effet. Ce sera un long voyage initiatique au coeur de l'histoire de la musique noire, par les veines de ColombiAfrica, pays jeune et méconnu de tous... suivant la géographie de l'amour, la poésie & la marijuana, dans une ambiance bikoutsi-tropical inoubliable.

Commençons donc notre voyage !! les étoiles musicales de notre cosmos sont Luis Towers el "Razta"; Charles King, le philosophe de la Terapia, Viviano Torres, créateur de nouveaux rythmes, Elio Boom & tous les artistes de cette compil, noirs afro-colombiens qui sont nés avec le soukous dans leur sang ....et "Juju-Man Premier", le pilote de cette navette spatial - qui vous parle depuis la cabine de commandement - travailleur infatigable des nouveau sons afro, qui mettra le monde entier a bailar y gozar au style champetuo avec cette compilation.

Maintenant, chers passagers, fermez les yeux : fumez votre bon tabaco de mariguana et écoutez ma voix profonde, car je vais vous raconter l'histoire  de mon peuple......

La Création de l'Univers

Il y a 40 ans, quelques crazys marins sont arrivés a Cartaghène; ils venaient d'Afrique, et ils ramenaient quelques disques qu'ils avaient acheté là-bas pendant leurs nuits de débauche : c'était la musique celestiale de Prince Nico Mbarga (Cameroun- Nigeria), Oriental Brothers (Nigeria), Tabu Ley Rochereau & Mbillia Bell du Congo, et une longue liste de "HIGHLIFE MASTER MESSAGERS" qui ont fait de la musique avec les pieds sur terre, près de l'esprit des ancêtres. Grâce a ces voyageurs anonymes et a la vitalité de mes frères afro-colombiens qui firent de la musique africaine le rythme de leur coeur, la Colombie est devenu en moins de 10 ans la "Republica Soukous de America". Aujourd'hui, ces étoiles africaines sont l'inspiration majeure des milliers de jeunes qui rêvent de faire leur groupe et jouer du soukous et du highlife dans les rues de leur quartier.

Les Sounds systems sont les conservatoires musicaux des barrios marginaux, ils sont l'Université d'Histoire Africaine de centaines de jeunes champetuos.... le vrai "Papá Sabor" de tous les niggers, des futurs U-roy, Big Youth ou Beenie Man de Colombie, qui s'inspireront de ces géantes machines au son bestial pour changer la direction de notre musique populaire.... yeah....white man, as i told you !! Locombia is not what you think !!!

Ladys & raggas !! continuons d'explorer l'univers musical de notre musique noire; allons-y avec un peu de Rhum, boissons diverses & autres hallucinants naturels, etc....les hôtesses de notre sound system volant sont la pour vous servir, pour que vous vous sentiez a l'aise, comme si vous étiez dans les rues du meilleur ghetho  noir de Cartaghène.

Qui furent les pionniers de la Champeta, les premiers chercheurs à avoir trouvé la dose de ce mélange parfait ?? Tout est arrivé dans les années 70's, en plein age d'or du hippisme colombien, avec la création du groupe "Wganda Kenya", dirigé par le salsero Fruko. Ce groupe écrivit plusieurs pages d'anthologie de notre évangile moderne, avec son incroyable AFROBEAT enfiévré ( écoutez Champeta Criolla Vol 1). Leurs disques étaient un torrent brûlant de musiques haïtiennes, africaines et latines rassemblés a une température de 1,000,000 de degrés centigrades.

Quelques années plus tard est arrivé Joe Arroyo avec son orchestre "La Verdad"; il a pris la relève et a continué a explorer, fusionnant Salsa, soukous & compas haïtien; aujourd'hui, même si peu le reconnaissent, Joe est le roi de la Champeta Criolla par excellence, car toute son inspiration vient de la musique africaine. Il a grandi dans la rue en chantant les morceaux africains qui jouait "El Gran Conde", il est fils du Sound System....!!!!

Mais les pères indiscutables de cette musique sont les noirs marrons du village de San Basilio de Palenque, prés de Cartaghène : Viviano Torres avec son groupe Anne Swing, Justo Valdez & Son Palenque, le groupe Kussima avec Hernan Hernandez...Sans eux, ce mouvement musical n'existerait pas aujourd'hui.

La champeta n'est pas un monopole de la Colombie : simultanément, dans d'autres pays , d'autres créateurs se sont lancés inspirés par le même feu : Juan Luis Guerra de République Dominicaine, génie du merengue-soukous, Ricardo Lemvo (Congo-Kinshasa) avec sa salsa africaine, "Batata y su Rumba Palenquera" (Colombia) nouveau groupe qui propose une fusion Cumbia- afrobeat. Sans se connaître entre eux, tous ces artistes travaillent dans la même direction : faire de la musique africaine et américaine un seul Zouk grave !! (une seule fête sans fin) . Sans le savoir, ils sont les constellations majeures de notre univers musical, des king de la Champeta qui s'ignorent.

Il ne nous reste plus qu'à activer le Sound System, mettre la musique tout volume a fond et vous désirer un bon voyage - que la musique de mon peuple remplisse la nuit noire des caraïbes - que les corps s'imprègnent de sueur et que le monde entier danse au son de mon tambour palenquero !!!!

CHAMPETA VOL 2 ( y mas na' !!!! ) For Real Motherfuckers 

En 1998 naquit le label Palenque Records, avec la publication de son premier disque : "Champeta Criolla - New African Music From Colombia - Vol 1". C'était le premier disque de Champeta publié en dehors des frontières de notre cote caraïbe; cette production a eu un grand succès en France, Usa, Allemagne, Espagne...aujourd'hui, après deux ans d'intense travail musical et cinématographique, nous revenons avec "Champeta Criolla VOL 2 - Visionnary Black Music From Colombia" - une nouvelle pierre pour construire la pyramide de l'afro-sound colombien underground.

Pour cette aventure, Palenque Records a appelé deux champions du monde de la boxe, connus de vous tous : MC IBA, gourou de la musique africaine en France, et Lucas Silva, voyageur colombien, cinéaste et producteur musical, plus connu dans les rues du ghetto sous le nom de Superchampeta-Man. En résumé : deux guerriers de la musique noire, scientifiques du "vacile efectivo" ( cela veut dire "maximum enjoyment" en argot champetuo ) , qui ne font jamais de concessions quand il s'agit de se battre.

Cette compilation rassemble 17 morceaux, produits et enregistrés par les architectes du son Champetúo à Cartaghène : le populaire CHAWALA, selector du Sound System REY DE ROCHA, Yamiro Marin, producteur musical, le célèbre Docteur Jekill & Mr Hyde, roi de la musique nigériane en COLOMBIE, Luis Garcia et Alvaro Cuellar, arrangeurs, et tous les chanteurs et musiciens qui travaillent sans cesse à construire cette tour de Babel musicale.

Écoutez le son d'un pays nouveau, qui se construit en même temps que j'écris ces lignes : une Colombie africaine qui se dresse toute belle sur les ruines de notre passé colonial.

Qu'importe qu'une partie de la mémoire ait été effacé par le colonisateur; ce qui est perdu peut a nouveau être récupéré. Aujourd'hui donc, les afro-colombiens réinventent leur identité culturelle a leur manière - plus prés de l'Afrique que des États Unis - plus prés du sang et de la culture que de Babylone System ! !

WHAT'S COMIN' ??? MORE COLOMBIAN VAUDOU SYSTEM !!!

Palenque Records sera toujours là, avec une oreille connecté à tous les sounds systems de Colombie, pour vous amener la musique la plus inspiré qui sorte de la rue, de toutes les rues du ghetho latino. Toutes ces rues de chez nous, abandonnés de dieu et du diable, ou se promènent dans l'anonymat le plus complet des musiciens de la taille de Jhon Lee Hooker, Compay Segundo, King Sunny Adé, Miles Davis...mais qui vivent dans la misère et n'ont rien !!!!

Notre travail est ardu et dur ; sur les ruines du colonialisme, nous construisons l'édifice de notre latino-black-world music; nous voyageons constamment dans des territoires nouveaux et risquées, dans un fou et magnifique Safari a travers des planètes "sauvages"; notre Jeep Land-rover est plein de boue et nous sommes entourés de bêtes féroces, de haut parleurs qui font trembler la foret entière, de belles femmes de rêve ..... ils sont tous les habitants d'un nouveau monde musical que nous essayons d'inventer, d'appuyer avec notre modeste effort discographique.

Ashé Eleggua, ashé Orula, ashé Obatalá, ashé Shangó, ashé Oggún, ashé Yemayá & Ochún, ashé a todos los Orishas --- pa'lante es pa'rriba & pa'rriba es pa'lante !!!!!

Depuis Champelandia, quelque part dans les plages de ColombiAfrica....

 Lucas Silva -- Ifá Man original   

Visionary Black Music from Colombia

Was' up my people!!!  Palenque Records comin' back attcha with some African ashé  ; happy and proud to bring you Afro-Colombian music from the Caribbean coast- Champeta Criolla.  This is the new musical universe created by blacks from my locombian  land: African guitar with voices from the hood, Latin Soukous, Afro-American Highlife, tropical mariguano Afro-beat, Soweto Cumbia…in other words, a wild mix of music- no passports please…

Dear melody-maniacs, Champeta is the most explosive rhythm out of the Caribbean's belly since the end of the century, and it's rewriting the "New Testament of Afro-American music".

40 years ago, crazy sailors coming from Africa arrived in Cartagena, bringing with them albums bought during their shameless nights of folly.  This was stuff like the celestial music of Prince Nico Mbarga (Cameroon-Nigeria), the Oriental Brothers (Nigeria), Tabu Ldy Rochereau & Mbilia Bell du Congo, and a long list of the "Highlife Master Messagers", who made music both feet firmly rooted in the Earth, near the spirits of the ancestors.  Thanks to these anonymous travelers, and to the vitality of my Afro-Colombian brothers who have made African music the rhythm of their hearts, in less than 10 years Colombia has become the "Soukous Republic of America".  Today, these African stars provide major inspiration for thousands of youth who dream of forming their own groups to play Soukous and Highlife in the streets of my great country.

Sound systems are the musical conservatories of marginal suburbia.  They are the University of African History for hundreds of young champetuos…the true "Papa Sabor" of all the boyz-in-tha-hood, the future U-Roys, Big Youths or Beenie Man of Colombia inspired by these giant machines of bestial sound to change the direction of our street music…Yeah…white man, as I told you!! Locombia is not what you think!!!

Who were those pioneers of Champeta, the first searchers to have found a dose of this most perfect mix??  It all started in the 70's, during the Golden Age of the Colombian Hippy mouvement, with the creation of the group "Wganda Kenya", directed by the Salsa-King, Fruko.  This group wrote several pages in the anthology of our modern Evangile with their incredibly feverish Afrobeat (listen to Champeta Criolla Vol. 1).  Their records were a burning deluge of Haitian, African and Latin music united at 1 000 000˚C.

A few years later Joe Arroyo arrived with his "La Verdad" orchestra.  It took over and continued the exploration with a fusion of Salsa, Soukous & Haitian Compas.  Today, even if only a few admit it, Joe is the King of Champeta Criolla par excellence, because all of his inspiration comes from African music.  He grew up in the streets singing the African melodies "El Gran Conde" played.  He is son of the Sound System…

However, the irrefutable fathers of this music are the black maroons  from the San Basilio village of Palenque, near Carthagena.  Viviano Torres with his group Anne Swing, Justo Valdes & Son Palenque, the group Kussima with Hernan Hernandez…Without them, this musical movement would not exist today.

Colombia does not have the monopoly on Champeta.  Simultaneously in other countries, other creators, inspired by the same fire, have leapt into the ring: Juan Luis Guerra from the Dominican Republic, genius of Merengue-Soukous, Ricardo Lemvo (Congo-Kinshasa) with his African Salsa, "Batata y su Rumba Palenquera (Colombia), a new group offering a Cumbia-Afrobeat fusion.  Without knowing each other, all of these artists have been working in the same direction to transform African and American music into some serious Zouk!!  (A none-stop party.)  They are all major constellations in our musical universe.  They are all Champeta Kings, even without knowing it. 

Champeta Vol. 2 (y mas na'!!!)- For real motherfuckers

In 1998, was born the label Palenque Records with its first album, "Champeta Criolla- New African Music From Colombia- Vol. 1".  It was the first Champeta record published outside the frontiers of our Caribbean.  This production had great success in France, USA, Germany, Spain…Today, after 2 years of intense musical and cinematic work, we are coming back with this production, "Champeta Criolla Vol. 2- Visionary Black Music From Colombia"- a new stone in the pyramidal construction of our underground Afro-Colombian sound.

For this adventure, Palenque Records has called in two world champions of box known by all: MC IBA, an African music guru in France, and Lucas Silva, Colombian traveler, film-maker and musical director, better known in the ghetto streets as "Super Champeta-Man".  To sum it all up, two warriors of black music, scientists of the "vacile efectivo" ("maximum enjoyment" in champetuo  slang),that never compromise when it comes to the fight.

This compilation unites 17 titles, produced and recorded by the architects of the Champetuo sound of Carthagena:  the famous Chawala, selector for the Rey De Rocha Sound System, Yamiro Marin, musical producer, the celebrated Dr. Jekill & Mr, Hyde, king of Nigerian music in Colombia, Luis Garcia and Alvaro Cuellar, mixers, and all the singers and other musicians incessantly working to construct this musical tower of Babel.

Listen to the sounds of a new country, being built even as I write these lines.  An African- Colombia rising beautifully on the ruins of our colonial past.

What's Comin': More Colombian Voodoo System

Palenque Records will always be around, with an ear locked onto all the Caribbean Sound Systems in order to bring you the most inspired music from the streets, all the streets of the Latino ghetto.  In these Colombian streets, abandoned to God and the Devil, musicians the size of John Lee Hooker, Compay Segundo, King Sunny Ade, and Miles Davis walk the streets in total anonymity… living with nothing, in misery!!!!

Our task is long and hard.  We are constructing, on the ruins of colonialism, the edifice of our Latino-Black-World music.  We are constantly voyaging through new and risky territories; in a magnificent and crazy Safari across "savage" planets.  Our Land-Rover jeep is encrusted with mud and surrounded by ferocious beasts: loud-speakers making the entire forest tremble, beautiful creatures straight out of our dreams…  They are all the inhabitants of the new musical world we are trying to invent, trying to support through our modest discography efforts.

In our travels, we rediscover America everyday.  Because we are Latino-Afro-Americans, we will always have something new to discover…And from each new experience, we bring back new inspiration for our writing of - as long as Oloddumare allows it- the New Testament of Afro-American Music.

Ashé Eleggua, ashé Orula, ashé Obatala, ashé Shango, ashé Oggun, ashé Yemaya & Ochun, ashé a todos los Orishas, a todos los niños de la simpatia--- pa'lante es pa'rriba & pa'rriba es pa'lante!!!

Lucas Silva-- Original Ifa Man

LA HISTORIA DE PALENQUE RECORDS

PALENQUE RECORDS' CATALOGUE

PALENQUE RECORDS- MC IBA- NIGHT & DAY- & AFRICA N°1

PRESENT :

CHAMPETA CRIOLLA – VOL. 1

NEW AFRICAN MUSIC FROM COLOMBIA

Ref. 1086 (Palenque Records / Night & Day)

FEATURING THE AFRO-COLOMBIAN ALL STARS: THE KING ELIO BOOM- "EL HALCON"- JUSTO VALDEZ & SON PALENQUE - MONSIEUR BOOGALOO - DJ CHAWALA - KUSSIMA SOUKOUS CRÉOLE BAND AND MANY MORE...

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK OF THE FILM "THE CREOLE KINGS OF CHAMPETA" produced by  LA HUIT PRODUCTION (France), PALENQUE RECORDS (Colombia) & CUMBE RECORDS (Venezuela).

Diffusion du film: Courant Septembre sur la chaîne MUZZIK CABLE SATELLITE. Décembre sur l'émission TRACKS à ARTE.

PALENQUE RECORDS, the new afro-colombian label, presents in exclusivity this compilation of CHAMPETA or TERAPIA CRÉOLE. New black rhythm from the colombian caribbean coast, Champeta is one of the most inventive popular musics of our time, and also the most unknown for european public.

The Champeta musical style, mix of Soukous, Mbaqanga &  Highlife associated to the burning caribbean vibrations (Rap-Ragga-Reggae, Haitian Compas, Socca & Calypso), is the new musical cocktail that shakes the giants Sounds-Systems of the blacks villages.

For this record, PALENQUE RECORDS called MC IBA, deejay,  african musicologist & one of the best ears in Paris and West Africa. This compilation includes the biggest successes of the short Champeta story, like the famous hit "LA TURBINA" by ELIO BOOM, who sold more than 80000 copies in the caribbean. This music drives everybody crazy in Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana & in others islands, where it's the king over the feet of the most demanding dancers.

African rythms of the world, mixed with rythms from the colombian caribbean coast, meet in Cartagena in this new groove afro-punk, great synthesis of the constant trips made by music between Africa & the Black American continent.

Contact Promo :

PALENQUE RECORDS - Lucas SILVA : palenquerecords@yahoo.com

53 Rue Stephenson 75018 Paris - France

tel (33-1) 42-52-51-75 - 0662822444

PALENQUE RECORDS & NIGHT & DAY

PRESENT :

CHAMPETA CRIOLLA VOL 2

“ VISIONNARY BLACK MUSIC

FROM UNDERGROUND COLOMBIAFRICA ”

Ref. PAL 1087

WITH THE BEST AFRO-COLOMBIAN GROUPS :

BATATA Y SU RUMBA PALENQUERA - "SON PALENQUE" & JUSTO VALDEZ GROUP - "SON SAN" GROUP - LUIS TOWERS - LA TRIPLETA PALENQUERA -MISTER BLACK - THE KING ELIO BOOM- MONSIEUR BOOGALOO - CHARLES KING – EL AFINAITO - VIVIANO TORRES & ANNE SWING - CANDIDO DR DE LA TERAPIA – “ REY DE ROCHA ” SOUND SYSTEM with DJ CHAWALA..... AND MANY MORE... ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Compiled by Dj Superchampeta Man - Queen Salawa Abeni & MC Iba - Total Time : 73’53

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK OF THE FILM "LES FILS DE BENKOS"" – by Lucas SILVA - produced by LES FILMS DU VILLAGE (France-Colombie  2001).

 

Was' up my people!!!  Palenque Records comin' back attcha with some African ashé, happy and proud to bring you Afro-Colombian music from the Caribbean coast- the Champeta Criolla !!!  This is the new musical universe created by blacks from my locombian land: African guitar with voices from the hood, Latin Soukous, Afro-American Highlife, tropical mariguano Afro-beat, Cumbia Soweto…in other words, a wild mix of music- no passports please…

After 2 years of intense musical and cinematic work, Palenque Records is coming back with something new : "Champeta Criolla Vol. 2- Visionary Black Music From Underground Colombiafrica"- a new stone in the pyramidal construction of our underground Afro-Colombian sound.

This compilation gathers 17 titles, produced and recorded by the architects of the Champetuo sound of Carthagena:  the famous Chawala, selector for the Rey De Rocha Sound System, Yamiro Marin, musical producer, the king of Nigerian music in Colombia, Dr. Jekill & Mr, Hyde, Luis Garcia and Alvaro Cuellar, mixers, and all the singers and other musicians unceasingly working to build this musical tower of Babel.

Listen to the sounds of a new country, which is being built as I'm writting these lines.  An African- Colombia rising beautifully on the ruins of our colonial past.

Contact Promo :

PALENQUE RECORDS - Lucas SILVA : palenquerecords@yahoo.com

53 Rue Stephenson 75018 Paris - France

tel (33-1) 42-52-51-75 - 0662822444

PALENQUE RECORDS- RADIO FRANCE

PRESENT :

SEXTETO TABALA

OCORA RADIO FRANCE

Ref C 560 126 ( Ocora / Harmonia Mundi )

First album of the Sexteto Tabala band; classics of afro-colombian sounds by a legendary group, Cumbia, Son, bullerengues-sexteto...Who said that Colombia didn't have his own sound??

Contact Promo :

OCORA - Serge RANAIVO : serge.noelranaivo@radiofrance.com

PALENQUE RECORDS- BUDA RECORDS

PRESENT :

SEXTETO TABALA : THE KINGS OF AFRO-COLOMBIAN SON

Ref 1979312 ( Buda Records - Universal )

At one hour far from Carthagene, on the Colombian Caribbean coast, one can find the village of the first free Blacks of America :  Palenque de San Basilio.

In this village was born in the Twenties the first group of Montuno Sound ever existing in Colombia. A group of peasants adopted the Cuban Sound and mixed it with the cumbia, the bullerengue and the chalupa : the "palenquero sound "was born. They created this new musical style whereas they were working with their axes and machetes in the cane plantations.

In Palenque, in this free African nation, are now living the musicians of Sexteto Tabalá, descendants from humble peasants who decided one day to add a little Colombian savour to the Cuban Sound. 

"The true Sound has been disappearing everywhere in the world.  We are the only ones who play this music the way they played it before, with old traditional instruments ", says the "maestro" Cassiani, leader of Sexteto Tabalá. 

"We play with drums, bongos, maracas, guiro, clave and Marimbula (African instrument equivalent to the double bass).  We do not need any guitar nor trumpet.  Percussions and voices are enough for this sextet, kind of mini symphony orchestra of "monteadrentro sound". 

The musicians of Sexteto Tabalá are popular stars, Sound true legends...

Señoras y señores, come to dance with Sexteto Tabalá, the kings of afro-Colombian Sound!!

Contact Promo :

BUDA MUSIQUE - Gilles FRUCHAUX : contact@budamusique.com

PALENQUE RECORDS - OCORA

PRESENT :

SEXTETO TABALA : PALENQUE DE SAN BASILIO

Ref C 560 187 ( Ocora / Harmonia Mundi )

PALENQUE RECORDS is proud to present you a new vibration from the Caribbean coast of Colombia

"Palenque de San Basilio" is a compilation of traditional songs and musics of a little Colombian area ignored until now, Palenque de San Basilio, village of the first free Blacks of the New-World. There, in this cradle of African culture, appeared the lumbalù, chalupa and bullerengue funerary songs, sung in kikongo and kimbundu dialects

You will meet "Las Alegres Ambulancias" and their ancestral autochtone music, like the bullerengue, afro rhythm derived from the cumbia.  Their music is the result of a combination of African popular musics from the Sixties: zaïrian soukous, South-African mbaqanga, cameroun makossa, and Nigerian and ghanean high life. 

Also in this compilation;  "Oriki Tabalà" (also known as the "Sexteto Monasito di Benkos" when he sings sexteto music), who represents a new time of the palenquera music:  he puts into traditional music the sounds of champeta and modern African music. 

Another star of this music in the disc, "Sexteto Tabala", mixture of Cuban Sound and palenqueros rhythms. Most of their songs are ploughing songs (track 17), and others, like Cortaron a Helena (track 7), new title, are sounds which were generally sung during funerals 

Concerning Ciquito's compositions, farmer, guerissor and especially authentic troubadour, are a mixture inspired by vallenato, bullerengue, cumbia and sexteto.  Finally, Cha Ines and Cha Pabla will bring you back into the past with their homage to the biggest singers from old times. 

Let you seduce by this original compilation, which will make you discover the biggest singers of these unique rhythms, living testimonys of a "New" Africa in Latin America, mixes of traditions and new emergent kinds

Contact Promo :

OCORA - Serge RANAIVO : serge.noelranaivo@radiofrance.com

PALENQUE RECORDS

PRESENTS :

BATATA Y SU RUMBA PALENQUERA

Ref 24.127 ( Network - Harmonia Mundi)

Batata, the big voodoo Maestro of afro-Colombian percussion comes with his first album with his Rumba Palenquera "Radio Bakonga". 

It is the first production of this legendary musician now missing, coming from the village of Palenque, located in the mountains not far from the Colombian Caribbean coast, place where the first free Africans settled,. 

His musician career began in childhood, when he played during African ceremonies. Then he played during many years as drum head and writer in the group of the Colombian diva Toto Momposina. This is the time when the first African discs of high-life from Ghana, the soukous of Zaire and the afro-beat of Fela Kuti appeared on the Caribbean coast. Little by little, this music mixed with the authentic roots to create a new musical style :  the champeta criolla.  For much, Batata is the king of champeta. 

For this Network production, Champeta-Man joins together the musicians of Batata with some stars of Congolese music:  Rigo Star and Dally Kimoko in the sebenes of fire, (who wrote biblical pages of Soukous with M'Billia Bell, Tabu Ley, Soukous Star, Papa Wemba and Koffi Olomide among others), and 3615 Code Niawu, the star of the organizers, doing the vocal animations. 

This album is a Road Movie, from Palenque to Kinshasa, Cartagena, Habana, Yaounde, Paris and San Pablo;  a journey through the memory of Batata, a come-back  to the sources, through the veins of Africa and all the ancestors of Palenque. Ladies & raggas:  enjoy with the sounds of this ancestral music ;  This is roots music, Champeta roots!!!  from ColombiAfrica to the world.

Contact Promo :

NETWORK - Rudy HASSELBLATT : networkmedien@compuserve.com

CINEMA

LA HUIT PRODUCTION - PALENQUE RECORDS

& CUMBE RECORDS

PRESENT :

"THE CREOLE KINGS OF CHAMPETA"

A 30'DOCUMENTARY REALISED BY LUCAS SILVA AND SERGIO ARRIA ( COLOMBIA-FRANCE-VENEZUELA 1997 )

Image: Lucas SILVA / Sound : Sergio ARRIA

Editing: Lucas SILVA, Sergio ARRIA, Frederick BERAUD, Thomas LANZA, Patrick DIDIER.

Artistic Council : Marion PROVANSAL

Mixing : Jean-Marc SCHICK

A PRODUCTION BY PALENQUE RECORDS (COLOMBIE) - CUMBE RECORDS (VENEZUELA) - LA HUIT PRODUCTION (FRANCE).

With the participation of : SOCIEDAD DRAMATICA de MARACAIBO (Venezuela), CORPORACION del NUEVO CINE LATINOAMERICANO (Colombia), DEFI-JEUNES HAUTS DE SEINE (France), Association "QUE PASA" (Colombia), FONDATION CINEMA DOCUMENTAIRE (Colombia), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA CINEMATOGRAPHIE CNC (FRANCE).

FEATURING : JUSTO VALDEZ & SON PALENQUE - EL SEXTETO TABALA - SHAKA EL TERRIBLE - ALVARO EL BARBARO - KASSIVA & THE BLACK POWER - MELCHOR "EL CRUEL"- MONSIEUR BOOGALOO - CHAWALA - LUIS TOWERS - ANNE SWING - KUSSIMA SOUKOUS CREOLE BAND - CANDIDO DOCTOR DE LA TERAPIA - TOMAS "FAMI VALDEZ - PEPE KALLE & EMPIRE BAKUBA (CONGO)- THE KING ELIO BOOM - COCO-BOOM & AND MANY MORE....

SYNOPSIS :

This documentary tells the story of the CHAMPETA or CREOLE TERAPIA, one of the most innovative, ignored and marginalized musical kinds of Colombia and perhaps of Latin America. This musical movement, which mixes African rhythms like Soukouss from Congo (ex-Zaire), Mbaqanga from South Africa and Highlife from Ghana-Nigeria, with rhythms of the French and English Speaking West Indies (Haïtian "Compass ", Socca, Calypso, and Reggae), runs as a Master on dancers 'feet all along the Colombian Atlantic Coast, from Turbo to Riohacha.  Born in the black districts from Carthagena at the end of the Seventies, and in villages like Palenque de San Basilio, this Afro-Colombian rhythm, made popular by some fish salesmen, shoeshiners and self-educated musicians of popular origin, is going to extent and to conquer all the country thanks to its West-Indian and Colombian rhythms.  The documentary is a portrait of CHAMPETA's most famous artists and discjockeys, as well as the story of the birth of this music, which looks like the one of Reggae and Rap in Jamaica and in the United States.  One of its goals is to make known the talent of these artists, humble people who built alone and without any help all the necessary structure for the production and the distribution of this music:  independent labels, recording studios, disc stores... and a public which shows its support at every new production. African rhythms of the whole world, mixed with the rhythms of our Colombian Caraibes, meet in Carthagena to mix with the new vacile efectivo of Creole Terapia.

Original Soudtrack of the movie available in two CD's :

- "COLOMBIA : THE SEXTETO TABALA" - OCORA - RADIO FRANCE.

REF : C 560126

Distribution : HARMONIA MUNDI (FRANCE)

- "CHAMPETA CRIOLLA : NEW AFRICAN MUSIC FROM COLOMBIA" PALENQUE RECORDS. REF : PAL 1086

Distribution Europe : NIGHT&DAY

Contact Promo :

LA HUIT PRODUCTION - Marco Magraner : marco.magraner@lahuit.fr

LES FILMS DU VILLAGE

PRESENTS :

"BENKOS' SONS"

A 52'DOCUMENTARY REALISED BY LUCAS SILVA ( FRANCE - COLOMBIA 2000 )

Image: Lucas SILVA / Sound : Cesar Salazar

Editing: Katia Martin / Frederick BERAUD

Mixing: José Baptista - CREASON

A PRODUCTION BY FILMS DU VILLAGE - With the participation of : CNC – PROCIREP - RFO – MEZZO - Ministerio de la Cultura de Colombia

FEATURING : OSCAR WILLIAMS – GROUP LA AMBULANCIA & PAULINO SALGADO “ BATATA ” - EL SEXTETO TABALA - JUSTO VALDEZ & SON PALENQUE - MELCHOR "EL CRUEL" - VIVIANO TORRES & ANNE SWING - KUSSIMA SOUKOUS CREOLE BAND - CANDIDO DOCTOR DE LA TERAPIA – ESTRELLAS DEL CARIBE - CHARLES KING & AND MANY MORE....

MENTION OF HONOR - BARTOK PRICE in the Festival "Bilan du Film Ethnographique" - Paris, 2001

SYNOPSIS :

This film is dedicated to the African culture in Colombia, sight and told through the prism of its music. Traditional rhythms bring us back to the past, to the ancestors and the bonds with Africa; and the modern music played by young people brings us back to the present, in a "pluri-ethnical and multicultural" country full of contradictions.  On all the Colombian Caribbean coast, African drums resound since the time of the colony.  Initially there were Cumbia and Bullerengue, African rhythms brought back by the slaves in the colony time.  Then there was the Sound, music from Cuba which arrived to Colombia in the 1920s. It settled in the deepest afro-Colombian tradition:  the one of the black maroons' descendants who fled slavery.  In Palenque de San Basilio, maroon village founded in the XVI° century, the SEXTETO TABALA (which means "drums of war" in afro-Colombian Creole) has been playing "Palenquero Sound" for more than 50 years.  But the story of Palenque does not stop there:  from the trunk of the tradition are pushing at fast pace the branches of modernity.  Today, the black maroons from Palenque invade the close big cities (Carthagena, Barranquilla) looking for a better future.  It is in Carthagène, colonial city which was one of the larger slavery ports, where the new music from the Colombian blacks was born:  the Champeta, hot mix of Zaïrian Soukous, afro-Colombian rhythms and caribbean influences (Socca, Calypso, reggae...).  Exclusive music of the city' s poor and disinherited people, Champeta swept everything on its passage.  Salsa and Cuban Sound were totally forgotten;  the African music was the detonator of an extraordinary musical movement, awaking the fire of a hidden ancestral memory.  Far from the large music major companies of the capital, some black peasants who just arrived in town provided the foundations of the musical movement of Champeta.  Looking for cheap stars, they took from the reserve of local desillusioned youth to record successes of creole Soukous:  caïds from the streets or street hawkers, they all sing the everyday life of their barrio in popular rhythms of Zaire or Nigeria.  The kings of Champeta have no palace, their kingdom's courts are the beaches and the streets of Carthagena.  They are the kings of another marginal Colombia, left apart, that even Colombian people ignore:  the African Colombia.

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK OF THE MOVIE AVAILABLE IN TWO CD'S :

- Sexteto Tabala " Kings of the Afro-colombian Palenquero Sound " -

at BUDA MUSIQUE - UNIVERSAL -

- "Champeta Criolla, Visionnary Black Music From Underground Colombiafrica" - at

PALENQUE RECORDS - NIGHT & DAY - Release September 2001

Contact Promo :

PALENQUE RECORDS - Lucas SILVA : palenquerecords@yahoo.com

53 Rue Stephenson 75018 Paris - France

tel (33-1) 42-52-51-75 - 0662822444

PALENQUE RECORDS

EVERYBODY KNOWS IT : WE ARE THE REAL MOTHERFUCKERS OF AFROCOLOMBIAN MUSIC !!!

DISCOGRAFIA

1- CHAMPETA CRIOLLA, A NEW AFRICAN MUSIC FROM COLOMBIA (PALENQUE RECORDS/ NIGHT & DAY ) - USA DISTRIBUTION : FORCED EXPOSURE

2- SEXTETO TABALA (OCORA RADIO FRANCE-HARMONIA MUNDI).

3-CHAMPETA CRIOLLA VOL 2, "VISIONNARY BLACK MUSIC FROM UNDERGROUND COLOMBIAFRICA" (PALENQUE RECORDS-NIGHT-DAY)

4- SEXTETO TABALA : REYES DEL SON PALENQUERO (BUDA RECORDS-UNIVERSAL) .

5 - BATATA Y SU RUMBA PALENQUERA : RADIO BAKONGO (NETWORK MEDIEN -HARMONIA MUNDI).

6 - LAS ALEGRES AMBULANCIAS  (BUDA RECORDS -UNIVERSAL).

7 - SAN BASILIO DE PALENQUE (OCORA RADIO FRANCE-HARMONIA MUNDI).

8 - COLOMBIAFRICA THE MYSTIC ORCHESTRA – WORLD MUSIC NETWORK

9- SON PALENQUE – SAMBA – LP – HONES JONS (UK)

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