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PALENQUE RECORDS Y PERNETT RECORDS presentan: El Megamix De Abelardo Carbono- Remix By Humberto Pernett -

Megamix De Abelardo Carbono- Remix By Pernett

SON PALENQUE - CHIMBUMBE - del disco KAMAJANES DE LA MUSICA PALENQUERA=

SON PALENQUE !!!! OTRO hit de PALENQUE RECORDS


DISCO LANZADO EN 2012 - disponible everywhere

A Pila El Arroz- SON PALENQUE- del disco Kamajanes de la Musica Palenquera

Con un Solo Pie- Sexteto Tabala

sambingo - ESTRELLAS DEL CARIBE

El Yoyo - ESTRELLAS DEL CARIBE

Macaco (Reaganomics Remix) _ Palenque REcords REMixed By Dutty Artz Label ( NY)

Pegadita De Los Hombres- Sexteto Tabala

RECORDED IN CARTAGENA AND PARIS 
PRODUCED BY CHAMPETA-MAN 

LUIS TOWERS FEAT DIBLO DIBALA FROM CONGO

EL LISO EN OLAYA -COLOMBIAFRICA ORCHESTRA- FEAT DIBLO DIBALA

COLOMBIAFRICA ORCHESTRA -  NO HABLA NA - LUIS TOWERS FEAT BOPOL MANSIAMINA ( CONGO)

otro clasico de 

Colombiafrica, the mystic orchestra 

por Louis towers

COLOMBIAFRICA ORCHESTRA - MAMA AFRICA - Louis Towers - FEAT DALLY KIMOKO & BATATA

Samitolo ( Lumbalu ) - Son Palenque - LUMBALU PALENQUERO

TEMA DE DOLORES SALINAS , una de las voces legendarias de las ALEGRES AMBULANCIAS
OTRO HIT DE PALENQUE RECORDS 

The Jolly Ambulances: "Afro-Colombian Funeral Music" 

"The Art of Ancestor Mourning in San Basilio de Palenque" 

"Today, the 10th of May 2000, we are here in San Basilio de Palenque. Palenque de San Basilio, the first freed village in America, a small piece of Africa in Colombia…" Victor Cimarra walks on the village streets with his machete in his hand; he has just come back from the mountain where he spent his morning sowing manioc, rice and plantains. Behind him lays his native village, the symbol of 500 years of history, and of the fierce struggle of the nègres marrons1 against slavery and the colonial order.

"Today we shall record the first album by the 'Jolly Ambulances', the Palenque mourners and legendary rum drinkers who sing at funeral wakes and honour the memory of our ancestors. Without them, there can be no proper funeral in Palenque. 

'The Jolly Ambulances' are the representatives par excellence of ancestral Palenque music (other bands in the village, such as the Sexteto, have integrated more modern rhythms). They belong to the Cabildo Lumbalú, which has existed since colonial times and which gathers the village elders into a kind of brotherhood in charge of burials and everything related to the cult of the dead in Palenque. The Cabildo is the direct descendant of the state that ruled the life of the Palenquero maroons. It was a warrior state, a society aiming to resist the colonial order. Each time a villager dies, the family of the deceased calls for the Jolly Ambulances to perform during the funeral wake, which must last nine days and nights. 

Graciela Salgado is the bandleader because she belongs to the family of the 'natural' Cabildo leaders: the Salgado Valdez, better known as 'Batata', a dynasty of drummers famous throughout the region. "We have named this band 'The Jolly Ambulances' because we are jolly old women, we drink rum and sing and liven up funeral wakes. It is the art of mourning the dead to please our ancestors", says Graciela.

The mourners drink their bottle of Ñeque rum and start to sing in their deep, sad voices, so that the Africa fills the bush again with songs which could well be the laments of the slaves during their sea-crossing on the slave boats. "The first music in the world was that of the Jolly Ambulances, the true African bullerenge", says Jose de la Cruz Valdez. Next to him, a huge sound system plays African music, some very loud soukous. Times have changed but the musicians of the Jolly Ambulances have retained their music, which hasn't aged a bit.

In a small beaten-earth house, the mobile studio has already been set up. Pets make their way through mike cables and everyone drinks Ñeque rum because the old mourners cannot sing without rum! 



1 Macaco Mata el Toro - Chalupa 

Graciela starts to sing: "I haven't eaten for three days/ I haven't drunk water for four days aehhh / they are coming down the mountain, they go and fetch water / Goodbye Macaco, Macaquito / Farewell Macaco / take it by the tail aehh / ah that bull is courageous!!" 
"Macaco was a small fish. This piece was written by my mother, La Lu Valdez. She had a beautiful voice, like the sound of a clarinet. She would have a few drinks and start inventing songs. I have never heard anyone sing the bullerengue like her, ever. La Lu Valdez!! She would go to Cartagena every week to sell sweets and fruit to the tourists. For days she would walk with a tray on her head. Then she would come back with many songs that she had learnt or composed." 
This piece was taken up by my brother, Paulino Salgado "Batata", with a real band. The day I saw him on stage, I was so moved that I cried (CD LC6759: Batata y su Rumba Palenquera" Network). 


2 Maria Muchacha. - Lumbalú




La Maldita Vieja- Las Alegres Ambulancias -FEAT BATATA

colombiafrica remixed by the busy twist

from the album afrocolombia remix vol 2 by Galletas Calientes & Palenque Records
https://galletascalientesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/palenque-records-afrocolombia-remix-vol-2

Colombiafrica & Louis Towers - Mama Africa / The Busy Twist Remix Feat Zongo Abongo

tema del disco "CON UN SOLO PIE "

DEL SEXTETO TABALA 

PALENQUE RECORDS

Ofelia / Sexteto Tabala

from our new Lp 

afrocolombia remix with Galletas Calientes

Son Palenque-La Negra / Piper Street Sound - reggae Dub - Afrocolombia Remix Vol. 2)

remix by bosq for afrocolombia remix vol 2

Son Palenque La Negra. Bosq Remix / Palenque Records Afrocolombia Remix Vol. 2)

1er Gaou de Magic System remix by Sargenrto Garcia And Champeta Man 

recorded and produced in paris 2004. 

remix echo por Champeta-Man & sargento garcia 
en paris - ciudad mistica - llena de fetiches que la gente no ve

1er GAOU Magic System - remixed by Sargento Garcia & Champeta-Man

tremendo track featuring Bopol Mansiamina del Congo , en guitarra y bajo

Guy Bilong en la bateria ( camerun ) 

viviano torres - ane swing en la voz lead

Gustavo Garcia ( pantera ) en en el trombon 

en los coros : melchor el cruel y Kassiva Valdez

tema producido por lucas silva - dj champeta -man 

grabado en cartagena y bogota /// 1999 - en sonido analogo ......


esto es el buenavista social club de la champeta 





Zarandia Champeta - Colombiafrica Orchestra Feat Bopol Mansiamina & Viviano Torres

CARMELINA- Sexteto Tabala

PALENQUE RECORDS is a label specialized in Afro-Colombian music, founded in 1998 in Paris France, by Lucas Silva Dj Champeta-Man. Since then, we have released many records and we have changed the face of afro-colombian music, with a fusion of modern and traditional sounds. Our releases go from the very traditional genres of music, until the most modern and afro -electro beats, covering all ranges of black colombian music.

In 1996, Lucas Silva  decided thus to create the Palenque Records label (called like this in homage to the village of San Basilio de Palenque), with the objective of making known the size of popular afro-Colombian music, which struggles in the poverty of everyday, and in the indifference of the media, too busy with other products "more commercial". Our first musical production was the Cd "CHAMPETA CRIOLLA, NEW AFRICAN MUSIC FROM COLOMBIA" (Palenque Records - Night & Day), published in October 98. It was the first time that this music was released abroad, and this compilation revealed to the world this unexpected musical movement.

In 1999 we published two new albums : "Champeta Criolla Vol 2 : Visionary Black Music from Underground Colombiafrica (Palenque Records - Night & Day), then "Sexteto Tabalá: Kings of Son Palenquero" (Buda records - Universal). Each album is the result of a long work of musical production and investigation, and is accompanied by a booklet written by myself, in which I give an account of all the investigations and the field work that I carried out, the whole presented in a modern, narrative and personal way.
The disc "Batata & his Rumba Palenquera - Radio Bakongo", was launched by the German label Network in April 2003. It was very well accepted by critics in Europe and in the United States. It was classified among the 50 best discs of World Music of all times by the English Review Song Lines, and one of the best discs of the year by the American review Latin Beat.

Unfortunately, in January 2004, Paulino Salgado died in Bogota, at 78 years old. "Radio Bakongo" is his only disc in solo, and it will remain for the generations to come like the musical testament from an exceptional artist.

In 2007, we released a new album, COLOMBIAFRICA THE MYSTIC ORCHESTRA, together with WORLD MUSIC NETWORK label(UK). Until today I thus realeased 11 discs of afro-Colombian music. Many magazines and other media of Europe, United States and Colombia, made heard about this musical work, with very positive critics.
The afro-Colombian culture is a cultural exception. Musicians and popular artists of my country are genius creators, but a few believe in them. For this reason it is advisable to impel a musical movement around their talent, to support and create an artistic movement of independent compositors who can build this future.

Our latets Releases are : PALENQUE PALENQUE (SOUNDWAY -PALENQUE RECORDS) , SEXTETO TABALA "CON UN SOLO PIE", FARAON BANTU VYNIL, together with CHUSMA RECORDS - GERMANY..and many more to come

Waite for more news over here , and lots of NEW RELEASES TO COME!!

ROOTS, VOODOOO & EMANCIPATION

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