Artist: Gondwana: mp3 download Genre(s): Reggae Discography: Made in Jamaica Year: 2005 Tracks: 14 While reggae mightiness be in general associated with Jamaica and then Africa, the influence of Bob Marley and roots reggae has traveled the earth, even into South America where it inspired the formation of Gondwana, a Chilean band that has tardily made an seismic disturbance about the ball. Formed in 1987, during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship in their primordial din Land, the ring had to observe a relatively humble profile until the political mood alleviated, as the government wasn't overly exquisite on a jr. generation airing beliefs that didn't mesh with their deliver, particularly if they mired Rastafarianism, with its peaceable approach to life. In some shipway, that obtuse development was ripe, because it gave them a chance to work out their possess sound, which, according to singer Quique Niera, became "very rockish, simply we also experience the South American traditional rhythms, like the bolero." That commingle showed up to some extent on their debut In concert in 1996, only if really came to fruition quaternion years later on their soph movement, Mo Coming. In Chile the record album was highborn Alabanza, and proven to be a discovery, rocketing them to the fee of the national charts. The extracted single "Antonia" too proven to be a chart-topper. The record album didn't unsure apart from political issues, with "Libertad" dealings frankly with the judge and peace that eluded Chileans during the absolutism. In the awaken of the album's U.S. release on RAS, Gondwana undertook a reality circuit. |