Track Listing

1. Watina
2. Weyu Larigi Weyu
3. Miami
4. Baba
5. Lidan Aban
6. Gaganbadiba
7. Beiba
8. Sin Precio
9. Yagane
10. Aguyuha Niduhenu
11. Ayo Da
12. Amunegu

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6766 in Music
• Released on: 2007-04-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Songlines, (Alex Robinson), May 2007
(5 stars) A delight from beginning to end...as rich and multi-layered as it is easy on the ear.

BBC Music Magazine, (Jon Lusk), May, 2007
(5 stars) Full of surging seaside rhythms and yearning, soulful
melodies that hang in the memory...

BBC Music Magazine, (Jon Lusk), May, 2007
...it's a strong contender for album of the year.

Customer Reviews

Not just a great World Music album - a great album - full stop.
It is hard to imagine anyone in 2007 producing anything so pure, so moving, so touching, so uplifting as Watina by Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective. If you can't fall in love with this music, then go to the doctor immediately and ask him to check if your heart is still beating.

The growing number of people who listen to World Music will instantly recognise this as a classic. But it deserves to be heard much more widely than the World Music circuit. Songs like Weyu Lariga Weyu should be being played on the radio and in the shops.

I knew nothing of Garifuna and had never heard of Andy Palacio until a week or so ago. Now I can't get the music out of my head and I've fallen in love with a place I have never been to (and probably never will) and a people whom I have never met. That's how good this album is.

A miracle work
The gentle, swaying title track that speaks about the simple occurance of being stranded on a road opens this truly remarkable record.
A melting point of African percussion and a myriad of sacred rhythms make up the music of Andy Palacio and The Garifuna collective.
I was left in tears by the incredibly moving,"Baba," a sacred prayer sung by The Garifuna people at church in Belize, the haunting voice of Adrian Martinez standing out. Other personal favourites are the driving,"Miami," and the bluesy,"In times to come," both wistful, expressing confusion and doubt over their people's future.
These songs speak of longing and loss, a people dislodged from their African home but the soul running through this music leaves a message twinged with light and hope.
This is not just a record, more a social document of The Garifuna people and as with so many world music releases these days the liner notes are excellent, offering a short summary that puts each song in context with a translation of the lyrics into English.
Please make this absolutely stunning record an immediate purchase.

Enthralling
Simple lyrics written in a complicated language - so just listen. You are left with a most beautiful, enchanting collection of music. And listening to it for the 20th time this week...it just gets better.