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ARTIST
TITLE
Juyungo: Afro-indigenous Music From The North-Western Andes
FORMAT
2LP

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HJR 089LP HJR 089LP
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RELEASE DATE
11/8/2024

Gatefold sleeve, superior pressing. Includes full-size, sixteen-page booklet, in color throughout, with detailed, bi-lingual notes and stunning photographs. "Since the 16th century, the Ecuadorian province of Esmeraldas has been home to a unique Afro-Indigenous culture originating in the integration of the Indigenous Chachi and Nigua peoples with African Maroon communities. Juyungo documents significant Esmeraldan artists and bands playing the Afro-Ecuadorian folklore of the province, as well as including some older field recordings. Based mostly on the marimba, whose origins lie partly in the African balafon, partly in Indigenous percussion instruments, the music is laced with call and response chants, ambient insect and bird noise, the filigree finger-styles of the Andean guitar tradition and the panpipes of the mountains. This is resonant insider roots music at its headiest -- the mystic revelation of Esmeraldas, gully deep and lustral." --Francis Gooding, The Wire