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	Sacred Music of Haitian Vodou A fabulous collection of traditional and contemporary Haitian music related to Vodou, including live ceremonial music, studio recordings and popular songs. The goal of this devotional music is to communicate with the spirit world. Elizabeth McAlister, from her experience of a Vodou ritual, reports that it "unfolded like an improvisational opera performed by talented artists ... Priests and priestesses took turns calling out songs while the whole room answered in choirs. When three drummers took their seats and began playing, the singers became dancers as well ...." This CD includes field recordings of traditional music, and also traces recent developments by well known artists including Boukman Experyans, RaRa machine, Boukan Ginen and RAM. The recordings and liner notes are by Gage Averill, Mimerose Beaubrun, Maya Deren, Gerdes Fleurant, Elizabeth McAlister, Gregory (Azouke) Sanon, Lois Wilcken and David Yih. Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM233  $17.00
	Puerto Rico In Washington Marcial Reyes y sus Pleneros de Bayamon and Cuerdas de Borinquen perform in the musical traditions of bomba, plena, and jibaro. The music was recorded at the 1989 Festival of American Folklife in Washington. Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM113  $17.00
	Cuba In Washington With performances by Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas, Grupo Changui de Guantanamo, and Cuarteto Patria y Compay Segundo, recorded at the 1989 Festival of American Folklife, this CD bridges borders of language, style, ideologies, and politics. There's an extensive descriptive booklet and the performance of 'Guantanamera' is itself worth the price of the CD. In all the music, the rhythms are great! Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM114  $17.00
	Puerto Rican Music In Hawaii: Kachi-Kachi A panorama of Puerto Rican musical life in Hawaii in the mid-1980s, recorded live at churches, clubs, parties, and informal gatherings. This music was influenced by the plantation life of the first Puerto Ricans to settle in Hawaii, and especially their Saturday evening dances. The music was titled 'kachi-kachi' ('scratchy', 'dry', or 'crackly' by Japanese plantation workers early in the 20th century). Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM141  $17.00
	Caribbean Revels 'Haitian Rara & Dominican Gaga', festive music played during the week before Easter. Bands of revelers, dancers, singers and percussionists, traveling from Vodou temples to their villages sing and play unusual percussion and wind insrumnts, often with bawdy lyrics, in the streets, plazas and cemeteries. Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM201  $17.00
	The Bahamas: Islands Of Songs A rich and varied anthology of music by Bahamian voices. Musical influences include music from their African ancestors, colonial rulers and nearby American neighbors. Some of the music is sacred music, reminiscent of slave songs intermingled with European Christian music. Also included is secular or goombay music played by 'rake and scrape' dance bands using goat skin drums, saws and accordians, as well as rhyming songs and children's game songs, banjo instrumental compositions and unaccompanied gospel songs. Performers include the Dicey Doh singers, Nat Saunders, Thomas Cartwright and the Boys, Sons of Andros, Cat Island Mites and Friends, Israel Forbes, Ed Moxey's Rake 'n Scrape, Avis Armbrister and Almeda Campbell, and Patricia Bazard. Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM203  $17.00
	Calypso Awakening The great flourishing of Calypso in Trinidad is captured by Emory Cook in his recordings 1956 - 1962. Some of the best of Calypso is represented on this CD, including music by John Buddy Willliams Band, Small Island Pride, Lord Melody, Mighty Sparrow, Commander, King Fighter, and Wrangler. Compositions include 'Saturday Night Blowout', 'Carnival Celebration', 'Booboo Man', 'Federation', and 17 others. You will find here several of the great Calypso 'duels' between the best of musicians in that tradition. Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM319  $17.00
	Lord Invader: Calypso In New York Lord Invader, singer/composer, was responsible for popularizing calypso in the United States. This CD includes Lord Invader's classic songs about Trinidad and life in the United States, among them 13 which were previously unreleased. The 26 songs feature inspired improvisation and compelling rhythms, recorded in the 1940s and 1950s, by Moses Asch. Songs include 'Rum and Coca-Cola', 'Out the Fire', 'Yankee Dollar', 'Crisis in Arkansas', 'I'm Going Back to Africa' ... Lord Invader is accompanied by Felix and His Internationals, and in one composition by Pete Seeger. Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM320  $17.00
	IViva El Mariachi A collection of much beloved Mariachi music performed by Nati Cano and Los Camperos. The vibrancy and intensity of this music could only come from traditionalist and visionary Nati Cato who has both reflected and shaped the history of mariachi music. He and his band, Los Camperos have been a driving force in North American Mariachi music for over 40 years, bringing Mariachi to unprecedented national prominence. Compositions include: 'Los Arrieros', 'San Miguel El Alto', 'La Malaguena', 'Tequila con Limon', and 13 others. Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM347  $17.00
	Grupo Ilu Ana / Sacred Rhythms Afro-Cuban batá drumming and songs performed by Grupo Ilu Aña. It's the music of a religious path that began with the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria and came to Cuba as part of the 19th century slave trade. It's fascinating, exotic, and moving. A set of batá is three 2-headed drums shaped like hourglasses with heads of different sizes on each end. The players, seated and holding their drums horizontally on their laps, maintain a rhythmic counterpoint with a stable beat, something like a 'conversation'. Fernando Ortiz, Afro-Cuban musicologist, wrote that the three batá 'speak' in "the tonal values characteristic of the languages spoken in the African towns from which the slaves were brought to Cuba. The batá express themselves in Lucumí language, and their notes, like syllables, taken from the vibratory skins of the drums, come out, not tumultuously, but in order, one after the other, like sounds in a series, to form the words ... " Grupo Ilu Ana is Amelia Pedroso (lead and background vocals), Regino Jimenez (iya, percussion, background vocals), Librada Quesada (background vocals), Fermin Nani (itotele, percussion, background vocals), and Jose Pilar (okonkolo, percussion, lead and background vocals). Fundamento Productions  =>  FU100  $18.00
	Matanzas Cuba Ca. 1957 Historic recordings of ritual drumming from Cuba. These extremely rare recordings of bembe lukumi ritual drumming, made by Lydia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa, provide a direct link to the music of 19th century colonial Cuba and the religious life of the first generation of Africans who worked the sugar mills. With origins in Yoruba religion in West Africa, this music reveals the roots of today's Afro-Cuban ceremonial practice. The 26 compositions include 'Toque Oyo', 'Toque Arara', 'Toque Mina - Yona (Obatala)', 'Mo juba ocha', 'Ogun Onile', 'Ibarabo ago mo juba' ... Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM331  $17.00
	Matanzas Cuba Ca. 1957 Historic recordings of ritual rhythms and songs from Cuba. This CD features the bata drums, used by practitioners of Santeria to salute and summon the gods (orishas). The recordings were made by Lydia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa. The CD includes a complete cycle of bata salutes, called the oru de igbodu, as well as rhythms played during ceremonies to mark the presence of an orisha. With origins in Yoruba religion in West Africa, this music reveals the roots of related religions in New York, Miami, the Caribbean, and Brazil. The 37 compositions include collections of unaccompanied Obu Cantado, Obu Cantado with bata drums, Obu de Igbodu (Oru Seco), and Guarachitas. Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM332  $17.00
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