The Yoruba / Dahomean Collection: Orishas Across the Ocean

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 (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways).

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EN ESPAÑOL

Los veiticuatro temas que aparecen en este Projecto de musica en peligro de extinción (Endangered Music Project) son un panorama del vudú haitiano, la santería cubana, el Shango de Trinidad y los rituales de candomblé brasileño registrados entre finales de 1930 y mediados de 1950.

A pesar de la separación por cientos de kilómetros y diferentes pasados coloniales, todos los cubanos, brasileños, haitianos y trinitarios que se escuchan, cantan en este album. El tambor de orishas (dioses) se deriva de los Yoruba y las religiones Dahomey de sus antepasados de África Occidental traídos a las Américas a través de la trata de esclavos.

El álbum fue recogido por la prolífica sonidista Laura Boulton y por los estudiosos afroamericanos Melville Herskovits y Lydia Cabrera. La colección: Yoruba / Dahomean Orishas a través del océano se publicó en 1997 como parte del Projecto de musica en peligro de extinción, una serie curada por Mickey Hart, tamborista de Grateful Dead, con el material del Library of Congress' American Folklife Center (Centro de Folclor Estadounidense de la Biblioteca del Congreso) ahora parte de la colección Mickey Hart, está puesta a disposición por Smithsonian Folkways.

Track Listing

101	Papa Legba ouve baye	Singers in Haiti with drums	01:24
102	St. Jak pa la	Singers in Haiti with drums	01:43
103	An nou mache	Singers in Haiti with drums	01:41
104	Ketu songs for Osain	Manoel's Group	04:06
105	Bori songs	Manoel's Group	03:55
106	Agolonã	Manoel's Group	02:11
107	Opanije (rhythms for the Omolú)	Shimiya's Group	04:01
108	Ketu: Roda de Dadá (song cycle)	Manoel's Group	04:12
109	Ketu Songs for Oxalá	Vidal's Group	04:19
110	Song for Eleguá	Conjunto El Niño	03:22
111	Song for Naná Burukú	M. Portillo Dominguez	04:15
112	Song for Ogún	Cándido Martinez	01:33
113	Song for Dadá	Cándido Martinez	01:01
114	Song for Yemayá	Cándido Martinez	01:18
115	Ochún Talade	Alberto Yenkins	02:26
116	Canções do Maracatú (1)	Fernando Hernandez, Inés Sotomayor Group	04:14
117	Canções do Maracatú (2)	Cándido Martinez, Miguel Santa Cruz, Juan Gonzalez	03:05
118	Canções do Maracatú (3)	Cándido Martinez, Miguel Santa Cruz, Juan Gonzalez	03:05
119	Itulu song (funerary rites)	Fernando Hernandez	01:39
120	Itulu song	Fernando Hernandez	01:49
121	Yariba-Oshun	Margaret Buckley, Joe Alexander	02:07
122	Shango ceremonial music (1)	Male singer and chorus with drums	03:40
123	Shango ceremonial music (2)	Male singer and chorus with drums	02:09
124	Invocation (Shango)	Andrew Biddle	02:37