Label: Ocora

コロンビアのカリブ海沿岸の伝統的な音楽である"ブジェレンゲ"の代表的歌手であるペトローナ・マルティネスの歌唱を纏めた音源集。1998年に同レーベルがCDリリースしていた作品の2022年新装復刻版。80歳を超える現在も現役歌手として活動しており、本作には1997年に行ったエネルギッシュなライヴ録音を収録。このアルバムにて自身の名を世界中に知らしめる事となる説明不要の名作。

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Petrona Martínez, an emblematic figure of bullerengue (a rare exclusively female “sung dance” in Colombia) shows here all her talent as a folklorist: improvisation, a universe of superstitions and legends, a chronicle of local life –and always Africa in the background.
During the religious festivals of St John and St Peter (24th and 29th of June), the pregnant women, concubines and unmarried mothers, who could not take part in the popular dances, used to gather on a patio to “clap hands and beat drums”.

During these evening parties, or bullerengue, sugar cane alcohol would be drunk and one woman would sing, improvising verses, whilst the others would respond in chorus. Between the songs, the women would tell each other riddles and saucy jokes. The dates and places for these meetings were communicated discreetly between the bullerengueras belonging to the same “sistership”.

Throughout her artistic career Petrona Martínez has been nominated three times for the Latin Grammy Awards for the best folk album, winning in 2021 with “Ancestras”.