Canto de ciudad
Canto de ciudad
表演者: Carmen González-Kelz
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: 黑胶
发行时间: 1984
唱片数: 1
出版者: Triple Earth
条形码: 0724386460622
专辑简介
Great female voice from Ecuador.
[By the time her first album came out in 1984, Carmen González Kelz was busy touring throughout South America with sojourns to France. In 1989, she returned to Ecuador and began her study of the Afro-Ecuadorian traditions of Esmeraldas.
In 1992, her group Koral y Esmeralda had its first performance. She formed the group to promote these African rooted traditions from Ecuador’s Pacific coast. The group recorded Andarele in 1994 with the help of Cuban pianist and producer, Omar Sosa and recording engineer, Alcino 'Kiko' Donadel. Rather than an anonymous air-conditioned studio, why not go to the source of the music which inspired them and record there? No studio? No problem, they'd build one. No money? No problem, they'd find it. Difficult to get to? Ha! That's easy - they'd get there. And so they did.
The idea behind Andarele was to integrate the traditions, the sound, the feel and the spirit of Esmeraldas with that of contemporary Afro-Latin music. And in so doing, to expose Esmeraldas to the world. Local musicians, local singers, local dancers, worked alongside top professionals specially brought to the "storehouse by the sea." All were wined, dined and generally inspired to lay down some of the best tracks of their lives.
By 1995, Carmen González was back in France, working, singing, researching, followed by trips to Cuba and Quito, Ecuador. It was the birth of her first child finally that demanded she have a brief rest.]