Various Artists - Resistencia Sonora

♫ > A1. Cumbia Indígena
♫ > A2. María
♫ > A3. Solo Botas
♫ > A4. No Tengo Na'
♫ > A5. Me Voy Pa' La Europa

♫ > B1. Los Aguacatales
♫ > B2. Suénale El Tambó
♫ > B3. Acabación De Ismael
♫ > B4. Cumbia En El Magdalena
♫ > B5. Mujer Costeña
♫ > B6. Que No Muera El Folclor

**Limited to 250 copies worldwide.

Featuring original illustrations from Bogotá-based artist @yuricauno plus extensive 12-page booklet of photos and written documentation with translations in English and Español.

Resistencia Sonora was launched as a collaborative project where urban resistances and ethnic-peasant rural resistances converge in the greater area of Montes de Maria, situated in Colombia’s western Caribbean region. This initiative originates in one of the musical epicenters of ancestral sounds that have fostered a now global recognition for styles such as gaita, cumbia, bullerengue, son palenque and son de negro, as well as Sabanero accordion music like porros and pajaritos.

The aim of this extensive project has been to serve as a rare living archive of festive gatherings, conversations, knowledge exchange, and co-creative processes that have spawned specifically from the municipality of Ovejas, which sits in the Sucre Department of Montes de Maria. Resistencia Sonora’s documentation in Ovejas is more than just a musical recording, rather an all-encompassing snapshot of a very real folkloric life within neighborhoods such as El Bolsillo, El Corea and La Ciudadela. The initial inspiration of the project can be credited to a specific call to arms from composer Andrés Narváez, who expressed the dream to record his own original compositions set amongst this region’s local history. Andrés, like many leaders from the old sabanas beyond Montes de Maria, is a social leader and land-rights activist. He proposed not only to record his songs but also to invite other musicians and composers to take part in this documentation, an extended hand to uphold the legacies, knowledge, and traditions of the region’s elders.