Knowing Venezuelan traditional-popular music. Today's song: Congo Bará
The song that we are going to reference today in this musical area is called “Congo Bará”. It is a very particular Calipso that was compiled and is interpreted, in this opportunity, by Saturnino Briceño "Lilló" with musical accompaniment of the Group Tambú Bambú from the town of Güiria, Sucre State (Venezuela).
El Calipso is a Venezuelan musical genre that is part of the traditions of Irapa and Güiria (Sucre - Venezuela). Its influence comes from the island of Trinidad where the metal pails are replaced by the old Tanboo Banboo (Tambú Bambú) which are the original instruments with which this rhythm was interpreted in the Antilles of French, English and Dutch origin.
To this day, the calypso of Irapa and Güiria has kept alive the tradition of Sucrean diversions, with the contribution of their own creations, as evidenced by this song that we are referring to today. This type of Calypso has the particularity of a musical accompaniment with bamboo drums percussed on the ground and represents a primary form of percussion of the Antillean Calypso. The song is done in the Patois language (Patuá) of different ethnic groups of the Sudanese region and of the Bantu belt of Black Africa. These ethnic groups arrived with their magic sacred drums and initially served to support the protest songs in the French Antilles with the presence of the caixo, a voice that will later derive into Calipso.
Estelio Padilla
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