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Sample Track 1:
"Maria Ta Jora" from Kuenta i Tambú
Sample Track 2:
"Lightswitch" from Kuenta i Tambú
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Kuenta i Tambú
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The New York Times, Artist Pick >>

Kuenta i Tambú, a group from Amsterdam with members from the Dutch Antilles, wants the wider world to hear tambú, an African-rooted percussion-and-vocal tradition from Curaçao. Its set mingled tambu with the simpler, more familiar rhythms and pop refrains of electronic dance music, soca and hip-hop, with its lead vocalist, Diamanta von Lieshdeck, rapping in both English and the Antillean language Papiamentu. The six-beat complexity and metal percussion of tambú arrived, strategically, as peaks of momentum.

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