{"id":5272,"date":"2016-01-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/01\/15\/songs-we-love-tribu-baharu-made-in-tribu-baharu\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:00:00","slug":"songs-we-love-tribu-baharu-made-in-tribu-baharu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/songs-we-love-tribu-baharu-made-in-tribu-baharu\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Love: Tribu Bahar\u00fa, &#039;Made in Tribu Bahar\u00fa&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\">Anastasia Tsioulcas<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/01\/14\/tribu_baharu_press_photo_smaller_wide-5216e9845beecff95dfd66a81951b83b92e2b307-s1100-c15.jpg\" title=\"Tribu Bahar\u00fa\" alt=\"Tribu Bahar\u00fa\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world#\">Made in Tribu Bahar\u00fa<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <strong>5:27<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world#\"><span>Playlist<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world#\"><span>Embed<\/span><\/a>\n<div><label>Embed<\/label> <button>Close embed overlay<\/button> <strong><code><strong>&lt;<\/b>iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/462966802\/463105863\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"&gt;<\/strong><\/code><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world#\">Purchase<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa <strong>courtesy of the label<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>courtesy of the label<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/01\/14\/album_cover_tribu_baharu_sq-1cfb4b871bfb40108c9852cdc412955c1169b86f-s800-c15.jpg\" title=\"Tribu Bahar\u00fa, Pa'l M\u00e1s Exigente Bailador (Tambora 2015)\" alt=\"Tribu Bahar\u00fa, Pa'l M\u00e1s Exigente Bailador (Tambora 2015)\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa, <em>Pa&#8217;l M\u00e1s Exigente Bailador<\/em> (Tambora 2015) <strong>courtesy of the label<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>courtesy of the label<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are very few guarantees in life. But one of them must \u2014 must! \u2014 be that as soon as you hear &#8220;Made in Tribu Bahar\u00fa,&#8221; you&#8217;ll start moving. (I promise.) It&#8217;s a song from Tribu Bahar\u00fa, a band from Bogot\u00e1, Colombia \u2014 and the sextet&#8217;s high-energy, abundantly joyful calls to the dance floor belie a complicated history.<\/p>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa&#8217;s musical style, called <em>champeta<\/em>, originated as a type of folk music within communities of African descent along Colombia&#8217;s Caribbean coast. Not acknowledging their country&#8217;s African heritage and its history in the slave trade, many people in Colombia looked down on the sounds of champeta and the people it represented. (In fact, there are reportedly still people who would like to try to squelch champeta; <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/features\/champeta-ban-artists-speak-out\/\">these days<\/a>, the charge is that it encourages teen pregnancy.)<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s and &#8217;80s, traveling West African sailors docking in ports like Cartagena and Barranquilla carried along LPs of Congolese <em>soukous<\/em> as well as Ghanaian and Nigerian highlife bands. Colombian artists began soaking up the lilting guitars and big, jazzy harmonies, and all those influences started commingling in the &#8220;<em>pic\u00f3<\/em>&#8221; (sound system) culture of Colombia&#8217;s ports. That is how a modern, dazzlingly energetic and decidedly African <em>champeta<\/em> was born.<\/p>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa is a band of champeta champions, who turn that melange of influences into an incredibly fun live show. The first time I saw this group live was in Spain in <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/10\/29\/359567443\/latitudes-top-10-musical-discoveries-from-womex-2014\">2014<\/a>; that night, they turned a crowd of spectators into a solid mass of sweaty dancers. If you are in New York City, you can have your own turn this coming Sunday night, when Tribu Bahar\u00fa appear at the annual showcase \u2014 summit, really \u2014 of musical talents from around the world: <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/globalfest.org\/\">globalFEST<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa&#8217;s album <em>Pa&#8217;l M\u00e1s Exigente Bailador<\/em> is out now on <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tamborarecords.com\/label.html\">Tambora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Songs We Love: Tribu Bahar\u00fa, &#039;Made in Tribu Bahar\u00fa&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/01\/14\/tribu_baharu_press_photo_smaller_wide-5216e9845beecff95dfd66a81951b83b92e2b307-s1100-c15.jpg\" title=\"Tribu Bahar\u00fa\" alt=\"Tribu Bahar\u00fa\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world#\">Made in Tribu Bahar\u00fa<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <strong>5:27<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world#\"><span>Playlist<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world#\"><span>Embed<\/span><\/a>\n<div><label>Embed<\/label> <button>Close embed overlay<\/button> <strong><code><strong>&lt;<\/b>iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/462966802\/463105863\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"&gt;<\/strong><\/code><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/15\/462966802\/songs-we-love-tribu-bahar-made-in-tribu-bahar?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world#\">Purchase<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa <strong>courtesy of the label<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>courtesy of the label<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/01\/14\/album_cover_tribu_baharu_sq-1cfb4b871bfb40108c9852cdc412955c1169b86f-s800-c15.jpg\" title=\"Tribu Bahar\u00fa, Pa'l M\u00e1s Exigente Bailador (Tambora 2015)\" alt=\"Tribu Bahar\u00fa, Pa'l M\u00e1s Exigente Bailador (Tambora 2015)\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa, <em>Pa&#8217;l M\u00e1s Exigente Bailador<\/em> (Tambora 2015) <strong>courtesy of the label<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>courtesy of the label<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are very few guarantees in life. But one of them must \u2014 must! \u2014 be that as soon as you hear &#8220;Made in Tribu Bahar\u00fa,&#8221; you&#8217;ll start moving. (I promise.) It&#8217;s a song from Tribu Bahar\u00fa, a band from Bogot\u00e1, Colombia \u2014 and the sextet&#8217;s high-energy, abundantly joyful calls to the dance floor belie a complicated history.<\/p>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa&#8217;s musical style, called <em>champeta<\/em>, originated as a type of folk music within communities of African descent along Colombia&#8217;s Caribbean coast. Not acknowledging their country&#8217;s African heritage and its history in the slave trade, many people in Colombia looked down on the sounds of champeta and the people it represented. (In fact, there are reportedly still people who would like to try to squelch champeta; <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/features\/champeta-ban-artists-speak-out\/\">these days<\/a>, the charge is that it encourages teen pregnancy.)<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s and &#8217;80s, traveling West African sailors docking in ports like Cartagena and Barranquilla carried along LPs of Congolese <em>soukous<\/em> as well as Ghanaian and Nigerian highlife bands. Colombian artists began soaking up the lilting guitars and big, jazzy harmonies, and all those influences started commingling in the &#8220;<em>pic\u00f3<\/em>&#8221; (sound system) culture of Colombia&#8217;s ports. That is how a modern, dazzlingly energetic and decidedly African <em>champeta<\/em> was born.<\/p>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa is a band of champeta champions, who turn that melange of influences into an incredibly fun live show. The first time I saw this group live was in Spain in <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/10\/29\/359567443\/latitudes-top-10-musical-discoveries-from-womex-2014\">2014<\/a>; that night, they turned a crowd of spectators into a solid mass of sweaty dancers. If you are in New York City, you can have your own turn this coming Sunday night, when Tribu Bahar\u00fa appear at the annual showcase \u2014 summit, really \u2014 of musical talents from around the world: <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/globalfest.org\/\">globalFEST<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tribu Bahar\u00fa&#8217;s album <em>Pa&#8217;l M\u00e1s Exigente Bailador<\/em> is out now on <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tamborarecords.com\/label.html\">Tambora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}