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01. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Fly Through the Lighning to Speak With the Sun
02. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Incantaion to the Ancestors
03. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Arena
04. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Cumbacutiri
05. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Libation At the Gate of No Return
06. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Jaia
07. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Manicero
08. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Pranto Do Banzo
09. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Escape to the Palenque
10. FAMILY ATLANTICA - El Apamate
11. FAMILY ATLANTICA - El Negreo
12. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Gaita Psycadelica
13. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Myths and Proverbs
14. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Clavelito Colorado
15. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Eboka Ritual
16. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Tamunangue Blues
17. FAMILY ATLANTICA - The Griot's Blessing
18. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Pescador Saharawi
19. FAMILY ATLANTICA - La Familia
20. FAMILY ATLANTICA - Speak to the Spirit of the Sea
ARTIST
TITLE
Family Atlantica
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SNDW 042LP SNDW 042LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/28/2013

180 gram double LP version with mp3 download. Recorded over the span of four years in London and Venezuela, Cuban rumba, Venezuelan tambor and tonada, Ghanaian highlife, Ethiopian blues and calypso have been soaked and infused with psychedelia and spiritual jazz. Family Atlantica release their eponymous debut album through Soundway Records. At the heart of Family Atlantica are three people from three different continents: London-born Jack Yglesias, producer, multi-instrumentalist and a veteran of The Heliocentrics, his wife Luzmira Zerpa, traditional Venezuelan musician, poet and singer with a magical voice acclaimed by Manu Chao and half Nigerian-half Ghanaian percussionist Kwame "Natural Power" Crentsil. Recorded while living in an abandoned vicarage in East London, the record contains three different generations of Luzmira's family as well as a cast of musicians from the wider Family Atlantic family. One of the guests on the album, legendary Ethiopian-jazz maestro Mulatu Astatke, adds a classic touch on piano to "Escape to the Palenque," soloing in his unmistakable flowing Ethiopian 6/8 style. Also featured on the record are Senegalese Nuru Kane and Afro-Cuban group Yoruba Andabo. Much of the record was recorded by the Heliocentrics' Malcolm Catto in their East London studio. In 2008, Luzmira traveled to the Sahara Desert in the south of Algeria to participate in the Fi-sahara Festival. While there, she performed with Manu Chao, who introduced her to the audience as the most beautiful voice to arrive to the desert.