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Artist:
VA
Title:
There Is No Eye: Music For Photographs
Label:
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
SF 40091
"Featuring previously unreleased tracks from Rev. Gary Davis, Bob Dylan, and Bill Monroe, this stellar collection of roots music contains a total of 10 previously unissued recordings. Classic and eclectic, this CD also includes Woody Guthrie, Roscoe Holcomb, Alan Lomax, the New Lost City Ramblers, Carter Stanley, Muddy Waters, and many others."
Artist:
REYES Y SUS PLENEROS & CUERDAS DE BORINQUEN, MARCIAL
Title:
Puerto Rico In Washington
Label:
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
SF 40460
1996 release. "
Puerto Rico in Washington
presents the musical traditions of bomba, plena, and jibaro recorded at the 1989 Festival of Amercian Folklife. Spontaneous, powerful, and resonant, this recording of Marcial y sus Pleneros and Cuerdas de Borinquen is the first to capture the energy and creative genius of these masters as they draw the audience into their performances. Extensive notes with photos and lyrics in Spanish."
Artist:
VA
Title:
Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda
Label:
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
SF 40504
"
Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda
presents a unique collection of African-Jewish music in which the rhythms and harmonies of Africa blend with Jewish celebration and traditional Hebrew prayer. This compelling repertoire is rooted in local Ugandan music and infused with rich choral singing, Afro-pop, and traditional drumming. The repertoire includes lullabies, political and children's song. Religious rituals, hymns, and celebratory music, with song texts in Hebrew, English, and several Ugandan languages. This singular community of African people living committed Jewish lives has survived persecution and isolation arid asserts, 'We have been saved by our music.'
Artist:
VIENTO DE AGUA
Title:
Materia Prima
Label:
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
SF 40513
"The bomba and plena heard on this recording are the materia prima (raw material) of today's two most African Puerto Rican musical traditions. When its dynamic leader Tito Matos created the group Viento de Agua ('Wind of Water'), he vowed to keep alive the 'streetcorner sound' of the plena, music rooted in the lives of ordinary people. Viento de Agua Unplugged plays the stripped-down, straight-ahead version of his music, foregrounding its essence -- the sound of unbridled percussion, underscoring lyrics that proclaim local topics. In these performances by veterens of bomba and plena, Tito proves his claim that 'There is no way to create if you don't have the roots'."
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