Panorama Jazz Band feat. Yulene Velásquez - La Negra Atilia

from Song-of-the-Month Club: Good Music For You by Panorama Jazz Band and Panorama Brass Band plus special guests

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As you know, Panorama has been recording with a trio this year. Our April release, "Bridge Over Troubled Water," included New Orleans vocalist Yulene Velásquez and today we present her other feature from the same recording session, "La Negra Atilia."

Written by Venezuelan merengue master Pablo Camacaro, the lyric tells about an African heritage woman ("La Negra") named Atilia. She gets up before the sun to bring her wares to market in Porlamar, the largest city on Margarita Island, off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. Atilia carries a woven basket containing various articles of clothing, playing cards, Spanish balms, soaps and cremes. By the time the sun comes up, she has sold everything.

Merengue is a style found all over the Caribbean and Latin America but, in contrast to "Merengue Tipico" from the Dominican Republic, Merengue Venezolano is in a 5/8 rhythm, a 3 + 2 pattern. For this one, Doug tracked the session on drum set but later overdubbed congas and maracas.

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La Negra Atilia

Al comienzo del día temprano sale la Negra Atilia
con su canasto tejido donde lleva lo de vender
no son las 5 aún todavia no hay cielo azul
que anuncie la mañana
rumbo al mercado de Porlamar la negrita va.

Franela china de algodón y Blumas de nylon
el alcoholado español, los naipes y el mentol
la blusa fina, el jabón y crema de tocador
cuando el sol se apareció la negra Atilia vendió todo

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English translation:

Negra Atilia goes out very early at the beginning of the day
with her woven basket where she has things to sell.
It's not 5am yet, there is no blue sky announcing the morning.
She is on her way to the market in Porlamar.

Chinese cotton shirts and nylon undergarments,
Spanish balms, playing cards and menthol,
fancy blouses, soaps and creams...
When the sun arrives, Negra Atilia has sold everything.

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from Song-of-the-Month Club: Good Music For You, track released May 1, 2019
Recorded Feb 22, 2019 at Oak Street Recording, New Orleans, LA

Credits:
Panorama Jazz Band feat. Yulene Velásquez
Yulene Velásquez - Vocals
Ben Schenck - Clarinet
Michael Ward-Bergeman - Accordion
Doug Garrison - Drum Set, Congas, Maracas
Words and Music - Pablo Camacaro
Arrangers - Ben Schenck, Yulene Velásquez, Michael Ward-Bergeman + Doug Garrison
Published by Snack Daddy Music (ASCAP)
Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Lu Rojas at Oak Street Recording, New Orleans, LA
Cover photo - Ben Schenck
Photo of Yulene Velásquez - Michael Ward-Bergeman
Graphic design - Ben Schenck

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The Panorama Jazz Band and the Panorama Brass Band have been working steadily in New Orleans and beyond since 1995. Many hundreds of nightclub gigs, festivals, weddings, crawfish boils and Mardi Gras parades have added to this community of musicians' collective experience, all of which they bring to each of their recordings. ... more

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