Otrabanda Records

Otrabanda Records releases contemporary and historical recordings of (acoustic) creole musics from around the globe with a special interest in the (Dutch) Caribbean, Africa and island musics of the world. Otrabanda means ‘the other side’ in Papiamento, the Caribbean’s oldest and largest creole language, spoken by the natives of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao and Dutch Antillean communities in the Netherlands. It is also the name of the famous district in Curaçao’s capital, Willemstad that is home to one of the Caribbean’s liveliest creole music communities.