acoustic bass Geoff Brennan artwork Esteban Salgado tracks 1, 7 balafon Aly Keita tracks 3, 7 djembe Arouna Dembélé drums Elliot Kavee executive-producer Scott Price tracks 10, 13 lead vocals Maria Marquez tracks 4, 12 lead vocals, percussion [brazilian] Heleno Goulart mastered by John Cuniberti tracks 6, 11 percussion [kutiridingo, kutirimba] David Frazer percussion [tambor redondo, quitiplás], congas, bongos, bata [tambores], guiro Gustavo Ovalles photography by Olivier Auverlau producer Omar Sosa tracks 1, 2, 5 to 7, 9 rap Will Power recorded by Dan Alexander recorded by [additional recordings] Juan Carlos Cobeña recorded by [additional recordings] Juan Carlos Erazo recorded by [additional recordings] Juan Manuel Aquilo recorded by [additional recordings] Nicolas Mizrachi recorded by [additional recordings] Rodolfo Böhmwald recorded by, mixed by Justin Phelps soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet [turkish clarinet] Sheldon Brown tracks 2, 9 timbales Omar Sosa tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 trumpet Robbie Kwock tracks 1, 11 trumpet [muted] Carlos Avila vocals [yoruba] Martha Galarraga written-by, arranged by, mixed by, piano Omar Sosa Licensed From Night & Day Distributed By Night & Day Copyright (c) Otá Records Made By SNA Published By Shirmar Publishing Recorded At Coast Recorders Mixed At Coast Recorders Mixed At Record Plant, Sausalito Mastered At Record Plant, Sausalito Recorded and mixed in San Francisco at Coast Recorders, july 2000. Additional recordings in Paris at Studio La Chaudiere, in Barcelona at Ventilator Studio, in Quito, Ecuador, at Aquila Producción and at Post Data Studio. Mastered at The Plant, Sausalito, CA. Artists come from : Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Perú, United States and Venezuela