Purahei Soul
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Editor’s Notice: To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month this 12 months, World Cafe is happening a musical tour of Latin America. Each weekday from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we’ll highlight the music of a special Latin American nation with a curated playlist of important tracks, recent voices and wild playing cards.
There is a lake referred to as Ypacaraí, close to Paraguay’s capital, Asunción, whose magnificence may transfer you to put in writing an equally stirring track. That is what composer and playwright Demetrio Ortiz did within the ’50s when he wrote “Recuerdos de Ypacaraí.”
The track, coated by Mercedes Sosa, Jorge Drexler, Javier Solís and plenty of extra, serves as an amazing entry level for the subsequent cease on World Cafe’s 21 Days of Musica Latina. A melancholic serenade set towards the backdrop of Paraguay’s pure splendor, “Recuerdos de Ypacaraí” is a part of the nation’s guarania custom.
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At present’s combine is crammed with the style’s affect, that includes Los Paraguayos, Lizza Bogado and Luis Alberto del Paraná, one of many nation’s best exports. Artists like Che Valle and Purahéi Soul hold traditions alive, singing in each Spanish and guarani, however including their very own distinct voices to Paraguay’s music panorama.
There’s additionally indie rock bands included within the playlist like Los Ollies, The Crayolas and EEEKS. One in all our favourite finds from the whole 21 Days undertaking must be Sonido Chuli, a psychedlic cumbia band from Asunción.
Get pleasure from, and be sure to come again tomorrow to search out out the place World Cafe‘s headed subsequent.
