Panama 77

Description

Drummer Daniel Villarreal, born in Panama and based in Chicago, is known to many for his work with Dos Santos, Wild Belle, The Los Sundowns, Valebol Rudy de Anda, and many others. He is one of the most active players on the Chicago scene. If you’re in the Windy City, you’ll find him almost every night of the week in a bar, club, or venue near you, either behind the drums or behind the turntables, wearing a beaver-skin stetson, with his vintage blue Mercedes parked out front. For his debut as a lead artist, Panama ‘77, he calls on a wide range of friends and collaborators — including Bardo Martinez (Chicano Batman), Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Marta Sofia Honer (Adrian Younge), Anna Butterss (Jenny Lewis) and Aquiles Navarro (Irreversible Entanglements) — to create a vibrant, lush suite of psychedelic instrumental folk-funk. The album was recorded in several places in Chicago and Los Angeles, including an outdoor session in the backyard of the Chicali Outpost.