Panama 77

Description

Panamanian-born, Chicago-based drummer Daniel Villarreal 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 are in the Windy City, you will find him almost every night of the week in a bar, club, or venue near you, either behind the drum kit 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 and lush suite of psychedelic instrumental folk-funk. The album was recorded in several locations in Chicago and Los Angeles, including an outdoor session in the backyard of the Chicali Outpost.