OUR 20 NEWEST ITEMS!
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CANTOS DE PALO
You asked for it, you got it. Many extended cuts of Palo music recorded in Santiago de Cuba. Featuring the best of the best. Great quality and very powerful! |
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CANTOS AFROCUBANOS
Volume 5: Cantos a Shango 50 songs, 3 CDs and a 70 page book to learn many songs for Shango. Songs are presented in call and response with coro, first with bell and then with bata. Great package! |
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CANTOS AFROCUBANOS
Volume 3: Cantos a Oshun 50 songs, 3 CDs and a 72 page book to learn many songs for Oshun. Songs are presented in call and response with coro, first with bell and then with bata. Great package! |
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LUCUMI - THE RUMBERO OF CUBA
Tony Gatlif brings us epic scenes as young rumbero Michael Herrera Duarte (Lucumi) stars in this film with Cuban legends Tata Guines & Pancho Quinto. Beautiful cinematography coupled with great drumming and dancing...you'll love watching this one! |
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CANTOS AFROCUBANOS
Volume 3: Cantos a Obatala 50 songs, 3 CDs and a 60 page book to learn many songs for Obatala. Songs are presented in call and response with coro, first with bell and then with bata. Great package! |
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CANTOS AFROCUBANOS
Volume 2: Cantos a Ogun 50 songs, 3 CDs and a 60 page book to learn many songs for Ogun. Songs are presented in call and response with coro, first with bell and then with bata. Great package! |
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CANTOS AFROCUBANOS
Volume 1: Cantos a Elegua 50 songs, 3 CDs and a 60 page book to learn many songs for Elegua. Songs are presented in call and response with coro, first with bell and then with bata. Great package! |
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OMI ARABBI: Live in Havana
- at the Proyecto La California Afro-Cuban folkloric performance recorded live in Havana, Cuba. Great examples of bata, guiro, rumba, bata-rumba with plenty of live energy! |
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GONG MONG SUUNG Sword Dances & Courting Songs of Chiang, Mai, Thailand, 1969 Historic, 30 year old 'lost footage' from Thailand on DVD with plenty of extras including an audio commentary by Gerald Dyck coupled with an audio CD makes this package a priceless piece of history. |
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MUSICAL HERITAGE OF N.E. THAILAND
Vol. 1: Forgotten Lam Genres First CD of field recordings made by Terry Miller in 1973-74, in various provinces of Northeast Thailand, a mostly Lao-speaking region commonly known as Isan, featuring singing styles that were once the essence of vocal music in Isan and Laos. |
Released by Earthcds Partners.
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MUSICAL HERITAGE OF N.E. THAILAND
Vol. 2: Puppet Theater in Isan When these recordings were made in 1973, Isan shadow theater was still popular, though not prominent and virtually unknown outside Isan. Featuring the khaen free-reed mouth organ, a pair of small bronze cymbals, a drum, male and female singers & spoken dialogue. |
Released by Earthcds Partners.
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MUSICAL HERITAGE OF N.E. THAILAND
Vol. 3: Ritual Voices - Spirit-Curing Ceremonies, Rocket Festival & Buddhist Chant Music designed to move spirits: to summon spirits to visit the sick and heal them, to give life anew to the extinguished mortal spirits of those involved in political uprisings, and to penetrate the souls of festival-goers and lift their spirits in collective hope for a good harvest. All of this music was recorded during authentic ritual practices. |
Released by Earthcds Partners.
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LA COMARCA FIJA DE LIBORIO
(The Real Comarca of Liborio) - Disappearing Religious Popular Music from the Dominican Republic A close and personal look ingto the music of Comarca. Comarca is said to have been the very music Olivorio Mateo, the most important curandero and messianic leader in Dominican history, used for healing. Documentary film with beautiful footage and included full length audio CD in a 2 disc set. Released by Earthcds Partners |
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HAVANA CENTRO:
Cuba's Musical and Spiritual Underground Close and personal look into religious and popular musical styles in Havana Centro as well as dance and scenes of everyday life. |
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Drumming for Dagomba Chiefs
Historic recording of Dagomba drumming from Ghana on 2 CDs. Insert includes transcriptions of all rhythms, key proverbs with translations, extensive notes & photos. |
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Sorie Kondi: Without Money, No Family
Studio recording of blind musician Sorie Kondi in Tintafor, Sierra Leone. Proposed by Pa Sorie himself, an album that stands to become an all-time favorite. |
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MUSIC OF SIERRA LEONE, Anthology
Collection of songs from the first seven volumes. A perfect introduction giving you one or two samples of each volume and some extras that you won't find anywhere else. |
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ORISHAS - Musica para Danzar
Beautiful collection of orisha songs accompanied with the bata drums with a full chorus from Cutumba in Santiago de Cuba, one of Cuba's most vibrant folkloric dance troupes. High quality recording! |
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CLARA - Mystere Frontiere
Clara sings in “Fiestas de Palo”, her powerful voice leads the drums and the choir constantly evoking the spirits or her religion. A mix of traditional Dominican and Haitian Lwa songs both in Spanish and in Creole. |
Released by Earthcds Partners.
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PAPIRO Y SU GRUPO
Rural Merengue Tipico This group arrived on horse back hanging their instruments over the saddle. Papiro plays at fiestas, birthday parties, and dances in a remote rural area of the DR. |
Released by Earthcds Partners.
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