The next new Blog Country visitor was from Central America - Panama to be precise. Ernie's encyclopedic African knowledge was therefore not required.
Panama is probably best know for canals and hats. It has appeared here in 2018 as I drew them in my work's World Cup sweepstake. They were beaten 6- 1 by England - six blatantly offside goals as I recall.
For my previous post I provided songs with Panama in the title by Sugar and Slowclub. This time round I'm going for Panamanian artists which was considerably harder. At times like this Mr Google is often your only friend.
The alias of Latin American recording artist Camilo Navarro Q, Cienfue is known for mixing Latin Roots with modern electronic elements to create a sound dubbed “Psicodelia Tropical”. I know this as he has a Bandcamp page. The song that I have sourced is Ella Es Mi Patria Torturada.
For almost 20 years Señor Loop have apparently been producing contagious and rhythmic Latin alternative rock music. This article by lost.fm gives a pretty detailed biography of the band. The song I have picked at random is Insensato.
If my Spanish is correct (which is a big if ) Dorindo Cárdenas is an accordionist who plays in the Cumbia tradition namely in a Panamanian folk dance and musical genre, developed by enslaved people of African descent during colonial times and later syncretised with American Indigenous and European cultural elements. The track I have selected is called Desolación
We will be back on safer ground next time round as we welcome visitors from another African country
Thank you for breaking exciting new ground.
ReplyDeleteAre there many more of these to go? I'm starting to worry that you are catching me up. I've only had two new countries in the last six months (Mayotte and Andorra).
Another 4 or 5.
DeleteIt's been a hunger then a feast
The opposite for me. I'm on 141 but may need to start writing to the embassies of missing countries if I am ever to meet my target of 150.
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