Album Info
| 1. Papa Legba Ouve Baye | Year of Recording: 1998 | |||
| 2. St. Jak Pa La | Record Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | |||
| 3. An Nou Mache | Producers: Mickey Hart, Alan Jabbour | |||
| 4. Ketu Songs for Osain | Edited by: Mickey Hart with Morton Marks and Fredric Lieberman | |||
| 5. Bori Songs | Booklet Text: Morton Marks | |||
| 6. Agolonã | Introduction: Kenneth Bilby | |||
| 7. Opanije [Rhythms for Omolú] | Engineers: Michael Donaldson, Tom Flye, Michael Romanowski, | |||
| 8. Ketu: Roda de Dadá [Song Cycle] | Jeffrey Norman | |||
| 9. Ketu Songs of Oxalá | Production Management: Howard Cohen | |||
| 10. Song for Eleguá | Library of Congress Research: Kenneth Bilby, Max Derrickson | |||
| 11. Song for Naná Burukú | Cover: Josefina Tarafa | |||
| 12. Song for Ogun | Package Design: Adam Larson | |||
| 13. Song for Dadá | Series Ethnomusicology Consultant: Fredric Lieberman, Ph.D. | |||
| 14. Song for Yemayá | ||||
| 15. Ochún Talade | ||||
| 16. Song for Yemayá | ||||
| 17. Song for Yemayá | ||||
| 18. Song for Changó | ||||
| 19. Itutu Song [Funerary Rites] | ||||
| 20. Itutu Song | ||||
| 21. Yariba-Oshun | ||||
| 22. Shango Ceremonial Music | ||||
| 23. Shango Ceremonial Music | ||||
| 24. Invocation [Shango] | ||||
Description
The 24 tracks featured on this Endangered Music Project release are musical snapshots of Haitian vodou, Cuban santería, Trinidadian shango, and Brazilian candomblé rituals recorded between the late 1930s and the mid 1950s. Despite separation by hundreds of miles and differing colonial pasts, the Cubans, Brazilians, Haitians, and Trinidadians heard on this album all sing and drum to orishas (gods) stemming from the Yoruba and Dahomey religions of their West African ancestors brought to the Americas through the slave trade. The album was captured by prolific recordist Laura Boulton and Afro-American scholars Melville Herskovits and Lydia Cabrera. The Yoruba/Dahomean Collection: Orishas Across The Ocean was issued in 1997 as part of the Endangered Music Project, a series curated by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart featuring material from the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center.
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