Mekatelyu is a Costa Rican band formed in December 1998 when Gabriel Dávila (Gabo), bassist of the band, began to search for a new style of music that would fuse reggae roots with different Caribbean and Latinrhythms.
Here ist their song “Amarily Love Reggae ”
Malpaís is a band from Costa Rica, active from 1999 til 2011. The music of Malpaís is part of the Costa Rica-contemporary compositions work, called by the band “Costarican new song”. The musicians are trying to relate the concept to the early folk and protest folk tradition of Latin America, mixing musical structures of regional and local folk genres such as calypso and tambito with easy-listening jazz (breaks and progressions) and romantic lyrics inspired in Latin American songwriters in order to be perceived as if they are built on the solid tradition of their musical roots. The group takes its name from the most remote, jungle-cradled beach on the north-Pacific Nicoya Peninsula—the beach at road’s end.
Here is their song “Malpais”
Manuel Monestel was born in San Pedro to a family steeped in musical tradition. At 16 years of age, he began to learn guitar and the music of the ’70s. Is co-founder of the Nueva Canción movement in Costa Rica. Here is his song “Corazón Tropical”
Manuel Monestel is a great afro-caribbean musician, who also is the Co-founder of the Nueva Canción movement in Costa Rica. Here’s his great song “Alfredito“:
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