Pedro Ricardo, Damian Botigue

Barcelona record label Canela En Surco is proud to present Un Nuevo Amanecer (A New Dawn), the debut collaborative LP by rising star Pedro Ricardo and candombe broken beat maestro Damián Botigue.
Four long years in the making, this album is born out of the friendship between the two artists. After meeting at a Canela En Surco party in Barcelona, they began hanging out, listening to folk and jazz fusion records. They also began experimenting with new forms of expression based on returning to their roots (Pedro is originally from Portugal, Damián an Argentine raised in Galicia). Un Nuevo Amanecer is a journey between two worlds.

Pedro and Damián gathered a group of friends in Damián’s home studio in the Poble Sec neighborhood of Barcelona with the sole desire to have fun, but the end result is a timeless masterpiece. A record that progressively increases in intensity, going from the cosmic, cinematic folk of “Como El Viento” and “Atlantico” to the Latin fusion of “Un Nuevo Amanecer” and “Sem Dizer” on the A-side.

The album reaches its maximum intensity on the B-side of the record with two 140 BPM love letters to the 70’s Latin jazz-funk “Juntos y a Distancia” and “Cerca de Mi” plus the Bossa Nova meets Candombe jam “Mar de Fora”

Pedro Ricardo’s recently acclaimed debut LP on Soundway Records (2023) as well as Damián’s solo efforts in broken beat fused with Latin rhythms as Karmasound have both garnered DJ support from Gilles Peterson, John Gómez and Mafalda, among many others. This album marks the first appearance of the two musicians together and, as the title indicates, heralds a new path in the fusion of traditional music with a contemporary vision.