Album · 2015 · SUNDIG020
Masters Of Batá
Abbilona
Thirty Havana percussionists and singers, and the sacred batá drums.
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Liner notes
In November 2012 Claudio Passavanti and Giovanni Imparato recorded Abbilona, a Havana collective of some 30 percussionists and singers, at the ICRT studios. The group is led by Irian Lopez, a master batá drummer and babalawo. The album holds six long performances for the orishas, Chango, Eleggua, Ochun, Oggun, Wobatala and Yemaya, most of them twelve minutes or longer. Imparato and Claudio produced it, and Claudio mixed and mastered it in London with Dom Sigalas and Emanuele Brignola. Sunlightsquare Records released it in 2015. On YouTube these recordings draw the channel's biggest audiences: Eleggua alone has over 340,000 views.
- Recorded at ICRT, Havana, November 2012
- Eleggua: over 340,000 YouTube views
- Chango: over 220,000 YouTube views
Personnel
- Irian Lopez Rodriguezband leader
- Yaimier "Derecho" Estevez Chirinobatá drums
- Yenier "El Surdo" Estevez Chirinobatá drums
- Jose Del Pilar Suarez Entensabatá drums
- Norberto Zamora Martinezbatá drums
- Yoel Zulueta Lopezbatá drums
- Francisco Maceo Rodriguezbatá drums
- Javier Pina Marquez (El Cuchillo)batá drums, lead vocals
- Michael "Lekiam" Aguilar Guerrerolead vocals
- Santiago Gonzalez Abreu (Angelito)lead vocals
- Claudio Passavantiproducer, mix, mastering
- Giovanni Imparatoproducer, choir
- Antonio Rodríguezexecutive producer
- Manuel Ángel "Mantecon" Lopezrecording engineer
- Dom Sigalasmix, mastering
- Emanuele Brignolamix, mastering
Tracklist · SUNDIG020
| 1 | Chango | 17:01 |
| 2 | Eleggua | 22:28 |
| 3 | Ochun | 12:07 |
| 4 | Oggun | 12:07 |
| 5 | Wobatala | 16:52 |
| 6 | Yemaya | 11:14 |
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