earthcds & earthcds partners - Life music from around the world on CD and DVD

OUR 20 NEWEST ITEMS!

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!

Released by Luca Brandoli.
$50

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!

A Tony Gatlif Film.
$25 home use only	$60 public, school, library use

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!

Released by Luca Brandoli.
$50

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!

Released by Luca Brandoli.
$50

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!

Released by Luca Brandoli.
$50

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!

Released by earthcds.
$17

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.

Released by Earthcds Partners.

$36

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.


$17

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.


$17

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.


$17

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

This DVD/CD set is for personal use only and is not licensed for library use or public/academic showings.
$36

This is the licensed version for library use and/or public/academic showings.
$275

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.

Released by Paul Johnson Films.
$20

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.

Released by earthcds partners.
$23

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.

Released by earthcds partners.
$16

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.

Released by earthcds partners.
$16

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!

Released by the Academy of Cuban Folklore and Dance.
$18

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.

$17

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.

$17

ARMANDO ROSARIO - Rural Merengue Tipico
Locally well known accordionist, his style is somewhat more daring than Papiro's and he is famous for improvising entire songs in honor of the people contracting him.

Released by Earthcds Partners.

$17

MUSIC OF SIERRA LEONE, VOLUME 2
Temne of Suctarr
Lyrical themes reflecting on the life experiences and living conditions including an acute awareness of the poverty but also the importance of family and faith in God.

Released by earthcds partners.
$17