{"id":68204,"date":"2020-12-18T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=68204"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:37:16","slug":"village-cuts-vengo-ganao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/village-cuts-vengo-ganao\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Cuts joined by Louis Towers and Mahon Sounds on champeta track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Vengo Ganao&#8221; features production from London-based duo Village Cuts, the excellent guitarist Patrick McMahon aka Mahon Sounds and Colombian champeta legend Louis Towers. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Village Cuts has organised a transatlantic meeting between Africa and the Caribbean through the prism of London club culture. This DJ\/producer duo, formed in 2018, is setting the dancefloor alight in promotion of new global underground sounds such as champeta, a genre belonging to the folklore of Afro-Colombian music. They are keen to pull it into the modern world, and have partnered with one of its legends, Louis Towers, to do so. The aim was to showcase the talents of the Black Atlantic to a European audience, especially via champeta, a genre from the Afro-Colombian communities of the Caribbean coast, which is experiencing something of a boom right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For their debut on Galletas Calientes Records, the duo have dropped a double-title 45 with Colombian champeta legend Louis Towers (\u201cel \u00fanico papa rasta\u201d) and British virtuoso guitarist Patrick McMahon aka Mahon Sounds. The first track, released in December, has an 80s Congolese electro-soukous style, while \u201cVengo Ganao\u201d is based on Towers&#8217; Afro-Colombian vocals and transports us to a sunny beach in Barranquilla, where a Caribbean sound system sets the mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Village Cuts, Louis Towers, Mahon Sounds - Vengo Ganao\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I32w3Nbx74U?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Village Cuts, Louis Towers, Mahon Sounds &#8211; Vengo Ganao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Although they&#8217;ve never before set foot in the promised land of champeta, the duo have managed to feel their way into the genre their use of West African rhythms called &#8220;despeluques&#8221; (translation: frenzy) and an unprecedented use of one of the most distinguished samples of the Yamaha SK5, the &#8220;perreo&#8221; \u2013 that famous synthesised barking sound typical of Afro-Caribbean music. But beyond its specific characteristics, champeta remains a philosophy first and foremost, one that links Colombia to Africa and shows us the strength of a coastal Africanism that has become a real cultural and musical reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track is available on all <a href=\"https:\/\/villagecuts.lnk.to\/vengoganao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\">streaming<\/a> platforms and the double-title will be released on 45-rpm vinyl in January via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galletascalientes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\">Galletas Calientes Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Village Cuts,  Louis Towers and Mahon Sounds in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5acccdc1-screenshot_2020-12-17-gb007-gc7-06-village-cuts-louis-tower-mahon-sounds-vengo-ganao.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5acccdc1-screenshot_2020-12-17-gb007-gc7-06-village-cuts-louis-tower-mahon-sounds-vengo-ganao.png 625w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5acccdc1-screenshot_2020-12-17-gb007-gc7-06-village-cuts-louis-tower-mahon-sounds-vengo-ganao-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5acccdc1-screenshot_2020-12-17-gb007-gc7-06-village-cuts-louis-tower-mahon-sounds-vengo-ganao-465x465.png 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5acccdc1-screenshot_2020-12-17-gb007-gc7-06-village-cuts-louis-tower-mahon-sounds-vengo-ganao-375x375.png 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5acccdc1-screenshot_2020-12-17-gb007-gc7-06-village-cuts-louis-tower-mahon-sounds-vengo-ganao-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5acccdc1-screenshot_2020-12-17-gb007-gc7-06-village-cuts-louis-tower-mahon-sounds-vengo-ganao-85x85.png 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5acccdc1-screenshot_2020-12-17-gb007-gc7-06-village-cuts-louis-tower-mahon-sounds-vengo-ganao-73x73.png 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vengo Ganao&#8221; features production from London-based duo Village Cuts, the excellent guitarist Patrick McMahon aka Mahon Sounds and Colombian champeta legend Louis Towers. 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