The Navigator

by Hurray for the Riff Raff

The Navigator cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 March 2017
  • Label: ATO
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:39
  • Community rating: 3.51/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Pedro Pietri, Patricia Santos, Juan-Carlos Chaurand, Jordan Hyde, Yvarume Tapia, Paul Butler, Gregory Rogove, Yva Las Vegass, Caitlin Elisabeth Gray, Claudia Chopek

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Alynda Segarra structures this highly ambitious concept album around a semi-autobiographical protagonist, Navita, journeying through a gentrifying, dystopian city. The record completely reinvents the band's traditional folk sound, integrating heavy Latin percussion, spoken-word poetry, and theatrical, David Bowie-esque rock arrangements. It is a profoundly moving, fiercely political celebration of Puerto Rican heritage and marginalized survival.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, political, conscious, conceptual, melodic, folk, acoustic, traditional, narrative

Tracklist

  1. Entrance (1:43)
  2. Living In The City (3:16)
  3. Hungry Ghost (3:25)
  4. Life To Save (2:56)
  5. Nothing's Gonna Change That Girl (3:40)
  6. The Navigator (3:27)
  7. Halfway There (2:11)
  8. Rican Beach (3:32)
  9. Fourteen Floors (4:13)
  10. Settle (2:57)
  11. Pa'lante (5:53)
  12. Finale (3:21)

Credits

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