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Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective | Print |  E-mail
Written by Irene J. Liu   
Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Wátina | Cumbancha

Wátina, which means “I called out” in the Garifuna tongue, is the stunning, heartbreaking album by Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective. The Garifuna are a distinct afro-Carribean culture that originated when two West African slave ships sunk in the Caribbean in the early 1600s. The African survivors intermingled with the indigenous Caribs of the region, creating a distinct culture that blended African and Caribbean traditions. Andy Palacio and the other members of the Garifuna Collective hail from Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Each track on Wátina is based on a traditional Garifuna rhythm and the lyrics are in the Garifuna tongue, which blends Arawak, Carib, French and West African languages. The production is magnificent, the lyrics soulful. The voices captured in these songs yearn for place, for acceptance in the present, and the future. “Ámuñegü”—which is Garifuna for “In Times to Come”— asks “Who will speak to me in Garifuna in times to come? Who will perform the dügü? Who will perform the arumahani song in times to come? We must preserve Garifuna culture now, lest we lose it altogether in times to come.” “Garifuna songs may only have two lines, and if you transcribe them, you still do not get the full meaning,” says Palacio in a press release about the album. “But a good Garifuna song is like a photograph. It captures a moment in time; a split second of someone’s life.”

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