By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone

Thirty-one years later, Putumayo Records It's still going strong and releasing unexpected music. Yes, that is to say, music originating in the peripheries of the international market, with the original structures of its rhythms, which has been registered for a progressive audience residing mostly in first-world countries, eager to break away from traditional commercial channels and delve into the vast "exotic" space that encompasses much of the globe. Putumayo is a label committed for more than three decades to showing its followers, open-minded people (and perhaps infected with intellectual pretension), that the planet is much richer, sonically speaking, than they imagine, and that, from time to time, one must look (and listen) away from the navel to understand its complexity. A very complicated mission, in an environment where resorting to etiquette «world music» It means scaring more than one white, Anglo-Saxon American who's easily frightened by anything from other countries. We bet Donald Trump doesn't have a single record from this New York-based label in his collection.

Putumayo offers its compilations so that its customers can download its content for less than ten dollars. His forte is a fine curation of ten-song albums (two per month) where, under a particular geographical or generic theme, it brings together recordings that correspond to the selected topic and, with a clear purpose of educating its audience, proposes an auditory experience of just under an hour, seeking to evoke an imaginary journey through distant regions. The latest title in its catalog is Caribbean Celebration, a dozen tunes made by artists born in Haiti, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Martinique, French Guiana and Barbados, in the style of reggae, compas, calypso, zouk, and other genres of the region.

Caribbean Celebration It's an album that adds joy and acoustic nostalgia. and evident signs of the growing spirit that resides in the Caribbean islands for preserving traditional styles of music, Without losing sight of the expressions that the new generations may manifest. A detail that is by no means insignificant. It is the compilers' effort to demonstrate the rich sound of Haiti, a country we only associate with tragedies and misery, losing sight of its cultural value. We also appreciate the inclusion of an artist from Providencia Island., Elkin Robinson, whom we especially appreciate, since he has restored to mainland Colombians the pleasure of island sounds, which, thanks to his constant promotion, It resounds in various speakers around the world. 

This album can be found on various existing digital platforms, but we have preferred to showcase it for all of you in the Bandcamp format, so that they can enjoy the illustrations of Putumayo and, while they're at it, if they wish, purchase the content and to support a cultural enterprise that continues to showcase the immense heterogeneity of the planet, amidst the one-dimensionality of its environment.