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Puerto Rican Batrachians

El Hermoso Cantar del Coqu

By Puerto Rican Batrachians

Label: JAMPR
Released: 2003
Track listing: Extended track with ambient nocturnal Puerto Rican frog songs.

Puerto Rican Batrachians: El Hermoso Cantar del Coqu

by Javier AQ Ortiz
April 10, 2003

It is literally impossible to understand many Puerto Rican musical streams unless one is familiar with the songs of the 16 Eleutherodactylus species there. Two of them – Eleutherodactylus portoricensi and Eleutherodactylus coquí – emit a recurring percussive song, from whence derives the popular name. The former frog is endemic only in Puerto Rico and it ...