Name: Okute
Brand: Okute

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CR011LP

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blue

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Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-06-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

755907300332

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CR011CD

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726667930534

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Okute

Genre GB

Latin / South American 

Label GB

Chulo Records

Recorded live to quarter inch tape in Havana, Cuba at Egrem Studios. Features Cuba's finest folkloric musicians, produced by Jacob Plasse of Orquesta Akokán.

Spend enough time in Havana and you will bear witness to Rumba, Son, the cadences of Orisha, Palo, and Abakua traditions -- Cuban music whose meanings, melodies and rhythms are informed by ancient African undercurrents whispering through the culture's collective unconscious. 

Okuté, an ensemble of Havana's finest rumberos, brings these constellations of sound to the surface, weaving them into something intuitively its own. Their self-titled album is as raw and unfiltered as Havana, where lines blur between the sacred and profane, between centuries and even millennia of melodies, rhythms and incantations. 

These elements straddle the old and new, incorporating unbreakable rhythms with lyrics and melodies strong enough to endure not only the middle passage but backbreaking centuries of slavery followed by struggles for independence. Okute is a true musical triumph - original and authentic, and like the essence of rumba, rich with spiritual medicine and musical delight for anyone who dares to listen. 

Music GB