The album Jotas by Spanish mountain folk innovators Casapalma topped LIMúR, the Iberian Roots Music Chart during the fourth quarter of 2025. Jotas encourages music fans to listen and dance. At the same, the intention is to understand folklore not as an object of the past, but as a living language in constant transformation.
Jotas is a lab in which Casapalma explores the limits of the rhythms and forms of traditional dance “in its free form,” respecting the codes with which the tambourine player guides the dancers. A fluid dialogue is established in which tradition converses naturally with current sounds and production techniques.
Throughout this work, Casapalma invited other artists from different areas of modern music to join this dialogue, turning it into a conversation over the table that breaks the barrier of time. Casapalma is a duo formed by Irene Atienza and Yoel Molina.
Fourth Quarter Chart
- Casapalma – Jotas – Raso Estudio
- Carminho – Eu vou morrer de amor ou resistir – Sony Music
- Xabi Aburruzaga – Bask – DND
- Radio Tarifa – La noche – Buda Musique
- Nancy Vieira & Fred Martins – Esperança – Galileo Music Communication
- Krama – Stanbrook (LP) – Modal Sound Records
- Terrae – Nostre Gra – Segell Microscopi
- Carola Ortiz – Enllà – Segell Microscopi
- José Peixoto & Nuno Cintrão – Visita: Diálogos com Carlos Paredes – Galileo Music Communication
- Lina & Marco Mezquida – O fado – Galileo Music Communication
- Luis Giménez Amorós – Voices on the River Rhine – KRB
- Raia – Uádi – Lusitanian
- Germán Díaz & Benxamín Otero – Outras trece cancións bonitas – Producciones Efímeras
- Tiago Almeida – Rivages – Segell Microscopi
- Blanca y Chuchi – Universo – Segell Microscopi
More about the chart: limur.eu
Author: World Music Central News Room
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