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Batuko Tabanka
Djunta mô

A job that emanates emotion and homesickness through and through.
A dialog and fusion of two cultures, Galicia and Cape Verde.

"Djunta mô" is a project traced back to the year 2006, when PAI Música knows and listen for first time to Batuko Tabanka thank to the interest of the production company Abada of starting a record project with this group of Cape Verdian women settled since beginning of 70´s in the fishing town Burela, in the coast of Lugo, Galicia.
It was like this how we started this trip together, that is part of the recording was done in Cape Verde, with the musicians and singers more representative of the musical panorama of this African country.

The rhythm of the batuko players has a past linked to the traditional music done by slaves in Cape Verde. Before beating their own chest, and now beating a bag of "sky" placed between both legs called "batuko".
The integration of these African rhythms with the Galician music came up in a natural way, because surprisingly we discovered that their ternary rhythms were very similar to the Galician "Xota", and the songs made remember the ones sang by the Galician tambourine players in the way that there is a main singer and the rest of the players are repeating the same sentence.

With all this musical ingredients, PAI Música presents "Djunta mô", a Creole expression that means "give a hand", "help all together". This is the expression that defines the spirit of this job that emanates emotion and homesickness through and through; a real "djunta mô" of integration, fusion, dialog, diversity and respect between two cultures. This is an album that counted on the collaboration of musicians and artists from Galicia, Extremadura, Cape Verde, Portugal, and Brazil.

A CD with twelve themes and a DVD that contains: the concert in Cape Verde, video clips and a report about how all this job was made. All collected in an illustrated book with pictures of Xulio Villarino, mate in this trip, about Cape Verde and the lyrics of the songs in Creole and translated to Portuguese, Galician and Spanish.
An essential album to increase any collection that worth its salt of world music.


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Participant musicians and artists in this album:

  • GALICIA (Spain): Xosé Manuel Budiño, Uxía, Mercedes Peón, Rodrigo Romaní, Xosé Liz, Antonio Por do Sol, Fernando Abreu, Isaac Palacín, Lola de Ribeira, Treixadura (Pablo Ces, Paulo Nogueira and Xaquín Xesteira) and Segundo Grandío.
  • EXTREMADURA (Spain): Luis Pastor
  • CAPE VERDE: Tcheka, Vitori Nha Vivinha, Nácia Gomes, Nho Nanu, DJ Asaias, Manel Di Tilinha, Ntoni Dente D´Oro, Jon Luz, Vitori's son, Xisto Almeida, Vadú and Agostinho
  • PORTUGAL: Augusto Canario
  • BRAZIL: Sergio Tannus

 

 

 

 

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