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CANALóN DE TIMBIQUí

The situation in the Pacific region is becoming dramatic: violence and natural disasters have displaced hundreds of people; illegal gold mining has destroyed rivers and polluted the subsoil and water, killing flora and fauna; and a number of social leaders have been murdered in recent years. In the face of all these threats in the region - and with little help - Canalón de Timbiquí is using its fame to raise awareness of these problems among the Colombian public and the world.

Canalón de Timbiquí plays traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms from the Pacific coast. The members of Canalón come from a small town surrounded by rivers next to the Pacific Ocean, Timbiquí in the state of Cauca. The singers met in high school and it was their music teacher who taught them the songs that her grandmother and the other women sang, mostly in praise of their patron saint Santa Barbara de Timbiquí. their style combines the sweet and exuberant singing of five women, the Marimba, the percussion and the Guasa.

Nidia Góngora

Nidia Góngora, the lead vocalist, has been part of important projects outside Colombia with the help of English producer Will Holland AKA Quantic. She recently toured Europe with the project Ondatropica. In 2003, Canalón de Timbiquí became an ocial group when they decided to participate in the Petronio Alvarez Festival - the most important festival of Afro-Colombian music - and won the prizes for best song and best musical arrangement.

Under the musical direction of Nidia Góngora and her unique voice, Canalón de Timbiquí has released three albums, toured Colombia and the United States and is beginning to gain recognition in Europe. In 2012, Sofrito Records included the track La Zorra Y El Perol, a Canalón classic, in its International Soundclash compilation. In the same year, the band did a cover of La Jeanne by the talented French artist Georges Brassens. In 2015 their album Arrullando won the award for best Traditional Folklore record at the Premios Shock 2016. For the Franco-Colombian cultural year, Canalón de Timbiquí has performed at the world’s biggest music festivals. Nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards 2019 in the category «Traditional Music» Canalón de Timbiquí launches its latest album De mar y rio recorded entirely in Bogota and produced by Llorona Records.

Reco Reco

Reco Reco delivers music that is both futuristic and ancestral, where traditional South American rhythms and the deepest infrabass from European dancefloors meet. Reco Reco’s musicians feed their sound with kuduro, merengue, Mexican 3ball, cumbia or even Brazilian forro and baião. An unbeatable combination that is fearsome live, to get the bodies moving, as if it were an urban voodoo ritual in a pre-Columbian free party...

They have shared stage with la Dame Blanche, Baja Frequencia, La Yegros, Kezyah Jones...