(Tru Thoughts)
Pacific coast cantora Góngora’s nature-rooted compositions are given larger dimensions by British electronica producer Quantic
Hailing from Timbiquí, a small gold-panning community on the Pacific coast of Colombia, folk singer Nidia Góngora’s music is intimately connected with the natural world. Traditionally, women who sift soil on the riverside accompany their work with songs of a centuries-old oral tradition; when this music is recorded, the instrumentation tends to mirror the surrounding sounds – drums for crashing waves, marimba for lapping water and shaker for the rain.