Bugiganga Tropical Vol.2 by Doctor Nativo Featuring Tzutz Kan

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Product details
  • Typ Double Cover
  • EAN 0609224513459
  • Catalog TDR001
  • Release 2020
  • Format
    • Vinyl
  • Size
    • 7" Large Hole
  • Speed
    • 45 RPM
  • Description
    • Special Edition
  • Sleeve condition
    • Mint (M)
  • Media condition
    • Mint (M)
  • Quantity 300

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Bugiganga Tropical Vol.2 • 7″ Vinyl 45 rpm

Double Cover + Lyrics Sleeve

Catalog Number TDR01; The second volume of our foundational collection.

The Origin: A Botany of Resistance

This four-record 7″ collection is the seed from which Tropical Diaspora Records grew. Conceived as “A Botany of Resistance,” each volume pairs a vital groove with a plant of the African diaspora; a living symbol of memory, labor, survival, and rhythm.

Volume 2 continues the journey. This is not a sample. This is the real thing.

This volume comes as a double cover (two separate sleeves) with a lyrics sleeve featuring translations from the Maya language.

Side A: Guatemaya

Side B: Sabrosura

by Doctor Nativo featuring Tzutu Kan
Guatemala / Belize / International

When ancient tongues speak through modern beats, resistance takes a new form.

Doctor Nativo; born from the streets of Guatemala, evolved from the Bacteria Soundsystem Crew, now a standard-bearer of indigenous musical resistance through projects like Balam Ajpu; brings his fusion of reggae, cumbia, and hip-hop with Mayan cosmovision. On Guatemaya, he meets his perfect counterpart: Tzutu Kan, the revolutionary artist who first took Maya-language hip-hop to the global stage.

Tzutu Kan delivers his incendiary verses in Tz'utuhil Maya; a language carrying four millennia of wisdom. Every word is an act of cultural resistance. To sing (or rap) in Maya is revolutionary.

From the streets of Guatemala to international stages, from StoneTree Studios in Belize to Anges Studio in Quetzaltenango, and on the road through Montreal and Barcelona, this collaboration was forged. Ivan Duran produced and mixed alongside Al Oviedo. The band behind Doctor Nativo includes Danilo Rodriguez on bass, marimba, trombone, and cuatro; Guavo Cedero on lead electric guitar; Eduardo Santella on drums; Carles Estruch on sousaphone; Chela Torres and Rosa Beronde on backing vocals; and Joshua Arama on Garifuna drum.

Together, they have created an artifact of a historic moment in Latin America's musical resistance movement; where every bassline carries the weight of history.

Turn it up. The ancestors are listening.

 

About Bugiganga Tropical; A Botany of Resistance

Cover Design by Matthias Beck; www.estudiorosebud.com

Each cover in this four-volume collection features a plant linked to the African diaspora in the Americas; a visual reminder of why Africans were brought across the ocean. Not as decoration. As memory.

Volume 2 continues the botanical thread, connecting the rhythms of Guatemala and Belize to the deeper roots of diaspora resistance.

Inside, you will find a lyrics sleeve with the complete words of Tzutu Kan; in Maya and Spanish translation. Read them. Speak them. Pass them on.

 

Written and composed by Doctor Nativo
Produced by Ivan Duran

Recorded and mixed by Ivan Duran and Al Oviedo at StoneTree Studios, Belize. Additional recordings at Anges Studio in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, and on the road in Montreal and Barcelona.

Credits:
Doctor Nativo: Lead vocals, acoustic guitar & percussion
Danilo Rodriguez: Bass, marimba, trombone & cuatro
Ivan Duran: Bass & electric guitar
Guavo Cedero: Lead electric guitar
Eduardo Santella: Drums
Carles Estruch: Sousaphone
Chela Torres: Backing vocals
Rosa Beronde: Backing vocals
Joshua Arama: Garifuna drum
Tzutu Kan: Lead vocals (Maya rap on "Guatemaya")

 

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