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Daniel Villarreal - Panamá 77

LP / CD / Digital album out May 20th

Panamá 77 – a vibrant and verdant suite of multi-textural, jazz-laced psychedelic instrumental folk-funk – is the debut album by Panamá-born, Chicago-based drummer, DJ, and our longtime comrade Daniel Villarreal.

Though it’s a debut work in the eyes of the world, Villarreal has long been a widely known and beloved character on the Chicago music scene. On almost any night of the week, you’ll find him DJing at atleast one spot on bustling 18th Street in his home neighborhood of Pilsen. If he’s not there, he’s playing drums with Dos Santos, Valebol, or The Los Sundowns (all bands he co-leads), or sitting in with Wild Belle or Rudy De Anda.

On 'Panamá 77' he engages a diverse array of friends and collaborators – including Bardo Martinez, Jeff Parker, Anna Butterss, Nathan Karagianis, Marta Sofia Honer, Elliot Bergman and Aquiles Navarro – to create a vibrant and verdant suite of multi-textural, jazz-laced psychedelic instrumental folk-funk.

Preview & Preorder Panamá 77

“UNCANNY” VIDEO

The album's first lead single “Uncanny” – an Onyeabor-style synth-funk dub featuring Bardo Martinez on bass/synths, Kyle Davis on rhodes/synths, and Villarreal on drums/percussion – is out today on all DSPs, and also available as a wild music video directed, filmed & edited by Burkie.

*Deluxe Vinyl Package*

Polyrhythmic Polaroid color vinyl

Panamá 77 comes on a 140-gram vinyl LP (pressed by Pallas in Germany) inside a heavyweight, spot-glossed jacket with a 4-page insert booklet, IARC obi strip, and dome-patterned inner-sleeves.

And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 555 copies of *Polyrhythmic Polaroid* color vinyl.

Order a copy via our Bandcamp page today!

Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America

This album will also be available on Compact Disc (in a deluxe 4-panel digipack), and on Classic Black Vinyl (same specs as listed above).

Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!

Distribution via !K7 for Europe, UK, Australia, and ROW

On all the same formats mentioned above, this album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.

If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!