Justo Valdez Y La Rumba Palenquera. A tribute to Batata

From the FREEDOM NOW! Collection

A film by Claude Santiago

French and english versions

45'

Powerful, happy, irresistible music to bury the dead, to party to or to fall into trance by. Rythms whose names reflect its hybrid polymorphous nature : afro-beat colombiano, cumbia soukous, porro high-life, champeta palenquera.

This film isi a long journey across the faces and hands of the musiciens, their contact with their instrument, a reinvention of the relationship between music and image. Meeting all those colombian rythms, DJ "Champeta man original" tell us the story of this very mixed music.