Banda Magda - El Pescador (Yerakina)
From the DVD "Yerakina" released September 23rd, 2014 on GroundUP Music.
Buy It Here - http://bandamagdamusic.bandcamp.com/releases
Written by José Barros
Produced by Magda Giannikou, Michael League & Fab Dupont
Magda Giannikou: voice & accordion
Ignacio Hernandez: nylon-string guitar
Mika Mimura: vibraphone
Jordan Perlson: drum set
Marcelo Woloski: percussion
Keita Ogawa: percussion
James Shipp: percussion
Haggai Cohen-Milo: upright bass
Michael League: baritone guitar
Mike Maher: flugelhorn
Matt Holman: flugelhorn
Matt McLaughlin: french horn
Bill Laurance: piano
String Section
primi: Maria Im, Emily Ondracek
secondi: Eylem Basaldi, Allyson Clark
viole: Lev Ljova Zhurbin, Dana Lyn
celli: Maria Jeffers, Colin Stokes
Background Vocals: Marcelo Woloski, Michael League, Bob Lanzetti, Justin Stanton
Special Guests: Gregorio Uribe, Juan Andrés Ospina, Nicolas Ospina on vocals
String and Horn arrangements by Magda Giannikou
Our rhythm section was recorded by Fab Dupont & Mike La Tona at Kaleidoscope Sound, NJ with Ian Cassel assisting.
Strings were recorded by Fab Dupont at Flux Studios, NYC.
Background vocals were recorded by Ira Senak at Flux Studios NYC.
Lead vocals were recorded by Mike La Tona at Flux Studios.
Mika's vibraphone and the alegre were recorded at Atlantic Sound Studios in Brooklyn, NY by Diko Shoturma, with Sean Van Doornum assisting.
Piano on "El Pescador" was tracked by Daniel Sanint at Flux Studios NYC.
All the rest were recorded at Flux with Mike La Tona.
All the music was edited by Mike La Tona.
Flux Studios assistant engineers: Asher Zeitschik, Jin Hwang, Ira Senak, Dan Cherouny
Mixed by Fab Dupont at Flux Studios NYC.
Mastered by Pablo Lopez Ruiz & Diego Calviño at 3:3:2 Studio.
Photography by Daniel Hilsinger
Artwork by Magda Giannikou & Christos Mastorakis
All the recording process was filmed, directed and edited by Andy LaViolette.
Additional filming by Beto Durán for “El Pescador”.
Executive Producers: Randraiz and Yolanda Wharton, Chico.
Lyrics
Va subiendo la corriente
Con chinchorro y atarraya
La canoa de bahareque
Para llegar a la playa
El pescador... Habla con la luna
El pescador... Habla con la playa
El pescador... No tiene fortuna
Solo su atarraya
La luna espera sonriente
Con su mágico esplendor
La llegada del valiente
Y del alegre pescador
El pescador... Habla con la luna
El pescador... Habla con la playa
El pescador... No tiene fortuna
Solo su atarraya
Regresan los pescadores
Con su carga pa' vender
Al puerto de sus amores
Donde tienen su querer
Y esta cumbia que se llama
"el alegre pescador"
La compuse una mañana
Una mañana de sol
El pescador... Habla con la luna
El pescador... Habla con la playa
El pescador... No tiene fortuna
Solo su atarraya
English Translation
The current is rising
With a hammock and a fishing net
A canoe made of bahareque
Arrives at the beach
The fisherman… speaks with the moon
The fisherman… speaks with the sea
The fisherman…has no riches
He only has his fishing net
The moon happily awaits
With its magic splendor
The brave arrival
Of the content fisherman
The fisherman… speaks with the moon
The fisherman… speaks with the sea
The fisherman…has no riches
He only has his fishing net
The fishermen return
With their catch to sell
To the port of their sweethearts
Where they keep their love
And this cumbia that is called
“the happy fisherman”
I composed it in the morning
On a sunny morning
The fisherman… speaks with the moon
The fisherman… speaks with the sea
The fisherman…has no riches
He only has his fishing net
