Liner Notes

Reyna Tropical and Xiuhtezcatl have been friends for years and started working on “Camino” in 2021. The song was created in collaboration with the Colombian percussionist Diva Cruz and the Bolivian co-producer Susobrino. “When Reyna and I started making this song many years ago, we knew it would be special,” Xiuhtezcatl shares. “There are few artists who truly treat their music as medicine in the way Reyna Tropical does. As artists, our relationship and responsibility to our communities is such a significant throughline within our art. It ties us to musical ancestries that are cradled in resistance, celebration and resilience, that remind us of our role in moments of disarray and chaos in the external world.”

“Camino” was performed for the first time in a live setting last month at Mexico City’s Vive Latino, one of the largest music festivals in Latin America. “Meeting Xiuhtezcatl in 2021 set the foundation for what ‘Camino’ has come to represent and document in this friendship, collaboration, and mutual expression,” Fabi affirms. “Moving with the current of an energy you feel in your gut you need to follow and shifting with fluidly. Trusting that the process will get you where you need to be, when it’s meant to be. Listening to what ‘Camino’ became, it makes sense that it encompasses the voices and sound of the diaspora.”

Contributors

• Produced by Fabi Reyna Xiuhtezcatl Susobrino
• Engineered by Fabi Reyna
• Mixed by Migui Maloles
• Mastered by Mike Denton
• Percussion - Diva Cruz
• Guitar - Fabi Reyna