Papá Roncón & Katanga: Marimba Magia

1. AGUA LARGA (trad) 4:50
2. OYEYA (Guillermo Ayovi Erazo) 4:28
Prelistening:
3. CARAMBA (trad) 2:58
4. BAMBUCO (trad) 3:10
5. AMIGO - MI AMIGO (Catalina Quintero) 2:20
6. ABUELA SANTANA (trad) 1:39
Prelistening:
7. FAFIREÑA (trad) 3:39
8. CADERONA (trad) 3:42
9. SAN JUANITO NEGRO (trad) 4:27
10. TORBELLINO (trad) 3:02
11. FLOR DE VERANO (Catalina Quintero) 2:09
Prelistening:
12. ESE GOLPECITO NO SE OYE (trad) 4:18
13. ANDARELE (trad) 3:51
14. PAPÁ RONCÓN Y SU MARIMBA (trad) 3:36

Total playing time: 48'21

16-page booklet in Spanish, German, English

Arranged by Guillermo Ayovi Erazo and Astrid Pape
Produced by Astrid Pape

Recorded January - July 2000 at Amarc-Estudios, Quito, by Paul Konz & Adrian Steinsleger
Mixed and mastered by Rudolfo Böhmwald / Postdata Producciones
Athmo recordings on DAT TCD-D100: Astrid Pape

ENSEMBLE KATANGA:
Papá Roncón: Marimba, Kununu, Bombo, Bongo & Voice
Catalina Mina Quintero: Bombo, Kununu & Voice
Rosa Huila Valencia: Guasa & Voice
Guest musician: Astrid Pape, Bongo y Bordon Marimba en "Oyeya" & "Torbellino"

This CD pays homage to the rain forest in Ecuador and to the people who live there, on the banks of the rivers Cayapas and Santiago, the "great waters" that carry the strange produce of the forest to the Pacific Ocean - thousands and thousands of timber logs of various precious woods. This produce is not intended for the black people living in this area, but for the white people on the other side of the globe. Over there they live in the land of plenty, whereas the local black people die of hunger. Yet I have never seen people who were more friendly and joyous and who would quite happily give up their only hammock to you.
I want to thank Papa Roncon, Rosa and Catalina for their friendship and for showing me the path to the lost black part of my heritage, the way to the roots we share, to our mother earth, to nature that gives without restraint and dies with us if we fail to show her respect and love.

Astrid Pape

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