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Matanzas, Cuba ca. 1957: Afro-Cuban Sacred Music

Matanzas, Cuba ca. 1957: Afro-Cuban Sacred Music
Various Artists

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Track Listing

  1. Toque Oro
  2. Toque Arara
  3. Toque Mina-Yona
  4. Mo Juba Ocha
  5. Ogun Onile
  6. Ibarabo Ago Mo Juba
  7. Song For Ogun
  8. Oshosi Ayiloda Mala Mala De
  9. Omodara Dei
  10. Babaluaiye
  11. Shango
  12. Oya
  13. Yemaya
  14. Osain Songs
  15. Guirigi Tongo Un Mene Mene O
  16. Mago Kueki Baye Arere
  17. Okun Leo, Vamo' Pa' La Loma
  18. Toque Yesa For Inle
  19. Uru Dada
  20. Shango Moforibale
  21. Yeye/Songs For Iroko
  22. Toque Yesa For Oshun
  23. Moforibale Ogun
  24. Olokun
  25. Toque Egbado
  26. Toque De Bembe

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #221099 in Music
  • Released on: 2001-09-25
  • Number of discs: 1

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Album Description
Recorded in Matanzas in 1957, these ritual rhythms provide a direct link to the music of 19th-century colonial Cuba, and provide a window into the religious life of the first generations of Africans who worked the sugar mills. Collected by Lydia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa, these recordings preserve extremely rare bembé lukumi ritual drumming used by practitioners of Santería to summon the gods or salute Cuba's African nations. It is remarkably different from the urban style heard today in Havana, although some of the same songs were sung in both city and countryside. With origins in Yoruba religion in West Africa, this music reveals the roots of today's Afro-Cuban ceremonial practices. 32-page booklet, extensive notes, photos, 69 minutes

Grabados en matanzas en 1957, los ritmos rituales presentes en este CD proporcionan un enlace directo con la música colonial cubana del siglo XIX, suministrando así una ventana hacia la vida religiosa de las primeras generaciones de africanos que trabajaron en los molinos de caña. Estas grabaciones, recolectadas por Lidia Cabrera y Josefina Tarafa, preservan el extremadamente raro ritual de tambores del bembé lukumi usado por los devotos de la Santería para convocar a los dioses o para saludar a las naciones africanas de la isla. Esta versión difiere del estilo urbano que se oye hoy en día en La Habana, aunque algunas de las canciones se cantan tanto en la ciudad como en el campo. Con unos orígenes que se remontan a la religión Yoruba del África Occidental, esta música revela las raíces de las prácticas ceremoniales afrocubanas de hoy en día. Cuadernillo de 32 páginas, notas extensas, fotos, 69 minutos.


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"Matanzas,Cuba"- Afro-Cuban Sacred Music5
Once again cuban, Afro-Cuban religion historian, Lydia Cabrera, leads this genre in producing this great album of yoruba-santeria music, recorded in situ, in Matanzas, Cuba in 1957. Through this sacred afro-cuban yoruba music the listener can better understand and evaluate the chants to the santos or yoruba deities in the manner of the conservative santo houses of Matanzas, Cuba. A must have for yoruba and Afro-Cuban music fans and a musical testimony of great historical importance.