Bugiganga Tropical 7 inch double cover [Bundle]
Couldn't load pickup availability
Bundle with all available releases of the collection Bugiganga Tropical the very first vinyl project at Tropical Diaspora Records®, with:
VOL. 1: COFFEE (2015)
The coffee plant on the cover ties directly to enslaved African labor on Brazilian plantations, where the rhythms of samba, rock, and Latin sounds were forged in brutality.
VOL. 2: CACAO (2018)
Cacao represents the Indigenous and African bodies crushed in colonial mills, yet whose labor birthed chocolate—a global commodity.
VOL. 3: SUGARCANE (2020)
Sugarcane embodies the bloodiest chapter of colonial exploitation—the crop that sweetened Europe while cutting through generations of enslaved flesh.
VOL. 4: COTTON (2025)
Cotton personifies the most brutal chapter of racial capitalism—the fabric of slavery that clothed the world while stripping Africans of their freedom. Like the bugigangas of my grandmother’s life, cotton was deemed "worthless" in the fields but priceless in global trade.
Tropical Diaspora Records® first vinyl project the idea to start the record label, this is the origin of this 7 inch record collection called Bugiganga Tropical. The word Bugiganga from Portuguese means trinkets; gewgaw; gimcrack; knick-knack in English.
The same word i used to hear in the houses of rich people, my grandmother´s workplace as servant-maid, housekeeper, housemaid, "empregada doméstica" many euphemisms for Modern Slavery.
My grandmother who took me with her to "work", a black woman cleaning the mess of white people families in huge houses and apartments in the Posh neighborhoods of São Paulo. The bosses in those houses use to describe anything my grandmother wore or that belong to her as "bugiganga".
This experience gave me the idea for this record collection, also everything that for the colonizers are worthless things trinkets, gewgaw, gimcrack, knick-knack, are certainly the most important things to the colonized person, their only belongs with a huge value. This is the same with the music or any work done by slaves or the objects and raw materials used in any production of colonial goods.
The plants in the cover-art should help the beholder to remember the ancestors of the Native and African people that are the foundation of the culture and identity of the Americas or Abya Yala (Guna language means land in its full maturity or land of vital blood). For example our first records Bugiganga Tropical Vol.1 with the coffee plant remember us the kind of work Africans did in many regions in South-America, the same regions from where the music and rhythms we have in our records came from.
We hope you will enjoy this records as we do!