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| Wátina |  | Artist: Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective
Label: Cumbancha
Category: Music
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Seller: allegro-music
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 41,273
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 3
UPC: 890846001039
EAN: 0890846001039
ASIN: B000LP4OPQ
Release Date: February 27, 2007
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| Tracks:
| | Wátina [I Called Out] | | | Weyu Lárigi Weyu (Day by Day) | | | Miami | | | Baba [Father] | | | Lidan Aban [Together] | | | Gaganbadibá [Take Advice] | | | Beiba [Go Away] | | | Sin Precio [Worthless] | | | Yagane [My Canoe] | | | Águyuha Nidúheñu [My People Have Moved On] | | | Ayó Da [Goodbye My Dear] | | | Ámuñegü [In Times to Come] |
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Amazon.com
Palacio is from Belize and his music celebrates a culture called Garifuna, in which indigenous Arawak and Carib sounds, plus West African influences imported during the dark years of the slave trade are twisted around one another like a helix. Over the centuries, fiercely independent tribes-people maintained their identity even as European colonizers relentlessly pushed them from St. Vincent, where the Africans had been shipwrecked and intermarried with the local population, toward the Central American coast. But more recently, the culture had begun losing ground, especially in Nicaragua, a fact brought to Palacio's attention when he visited that nation as teenage literacy advocate. His impassioned espousal of his birthright began when he got involved with punta rock, a synth-and-drum-machine-driven dance style popular during the 1990s. The present album represents a return to his roots. Blended Native, African and Latin exhalations create softly pretty, simply constructed, yet indelible melodies while percolating, hypnotic rhythms, some of which are anchored by a prominent Afro-Cuban clavé, get everyone moving. The songs are sung exclusively in the Garifuna language and built around folkloric sources like the ritual-based dügü. There's not a false note anywhere in earshot but "Yagane", a seafaring tune composed by and performed with Paul Nabor, a septuagenarian buyei (spiritual healer), is one stand-out; the delightful title track is another. The CD is enhanced with videos and other extras. --Christina Roden
Album Description
These soul-stirring melodies and vibrant grooves from the Garifuna community of Central America unite the musical legacies of Africa and the Caribbean to create a powerful saga of exile, longing, hope and celebration. Years in the making, Watina is infused with contemporary influences, yet firmly rooted in the rich musical traditions of this unique and inspiring culture. Belizean icon, Andy Palacio, leads an all-star, multi-generational lineup to deliver a monumental tribute to the Garifuna of yesterday and tomorrow.
* 32-page booklet features full lyrics and stunning photographs.
* Deluxe enhanced CD includes "making of" video and a preview of the upcoming Garifuna women's project "Umalali".
* The third release from Cumbancha, the new label founded by the head of music research at Putumayo World Music.
"****. Endlessly satisfying." --Charlie Gillett, The Observer Music Monthly (UK)
"Brimming with Buena Vista-ish elegance and dignity." --The Boston Globe (US)
"A little bit Cuban, a little bit Brazilian, with a reggae lilt, a Cape Verdean melodic lushness and a whole range of African echoes that you can't quite put your finger on." --London Daily Telegraph (UK)
"A fascinating musical mash-up...Transcendent, infectiously rhythmic music." --Veryshortlist.com (USA)
"There's a full year worth of listening on Watina... It's a fantastic recording that makes me thirst for more..." --Bob Tarte, Beat Magazine
"Rampacked to overflowing with amazing music." --Dave Hucker, Beat Magazine
"Superb" --Mondomix (France)
"****. Will spellbind the most indifferent listener." --Irish Times
"Consider this the first must-have album of 2007." --World Music Central
"An immediate world music classic." -Folk Roots (UK)
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Watina October 5, 2009
Mr. Lawrence J. Yank
A wonderfully eclectic expression of Garifuna
culture by a master musician! Amazon delivers
again!
Caribbean beat September 2, 2009
George A. Rattner
Beautiful afro-carribean music by a strong performer and even the recording quality is excellent. It's like taking a vacation in paradise.
I seldom give 5 stars but this was one pleasant surprise.
watina by andy palacio & the garifuna collective March 2, 2009
Karen Kasian
this cd is awesome. very easy to sit and listen to it for hours.
Soul-stirring... October 9, 2008
Karin Norgard (Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Released in March of 2007, Watina is a beautiful tribute to Garifuna music and culture. It is also the final album of Belizean musician Andy Palacio, who died in January of 2008 at the age of 46 from respiratory failure. Palacio's death highlights the importance of his purpose in this collaborative work: to preserve and revive the Garifuna language and culture.
The Garifuna (plural, Garinagu) are descendants of Amerindians and Africans. After shipwrecked slaves mixed with Caribbean tribes in the New World, they were expelled by the British to the east coast of Central America. They now live primarily in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras in small and somewhat isolated communities. There are also smaller Garifuna communities in the United States, Trinidad, Dominica and St. Vincent. It is estimated that there are less than half a million Garinagu left in the world today. However, even in the larger Central American communities, children speak Spanish in school and are more and more often becoming alienated from their own language and culture. It is this situation that Andy Palacio wanted to help change.
Andy Palacio had started out his musical career with punta rock, a form of dance music especially popular in Honduras and other Central American countries. But during a trip to Nicaragua, Palacio was stunned to find that not a single Garifuna under the age of 50 could speak the Garifuna language that he had grown up speaking at home in Belize. Not wanting to see the language and culture of his people die out in the next few generations, Palacio decided to make a turn in his musical career and devote himself to preserving and continuing the Garifuna musical traditions.
Watina, which means "I called out" in the Garifuna language, was a collaboration between Andy Palacio and over a dozen other Garifuna musical artists from different countries and generations. The musicians recorded over the span of four months by the Belizean sea, combining traditional music with modern rhythms. The result is an album that reflects the universal themes of loss, hope and unity in the context of Garifuna history and tradition.
Beautiful vocals and chants combine with the Garifuna primero and segunda drums to provide an exciting mix of African and Caribbean rhythms and influences. The weary longing of Watina and the bold hope of Lidan Aban ("Together") became fast favorites of mine. You can visit Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective's MySpace page for English translations of the lyrics.
Enjoy!
Excellent, fresh and original, spiritual in parts July 8, 2008
EugeSchu (WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderful offering of distinct rhythms from the Garifuna culture of Central America. Andy himself participated in more danceable, electric Garifuna music (such as Punta) earlier in his career. However, this offering is more refined, still very rhythmical of course, but more spiritual and carved out of his respect for his culture and roots. A wonderful album.
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