Smithsonian Folkways Special Collection on DeepDiscount

- Jamaican Folk Songs
- Artist:
  Louise Bennett
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Jamaican singer and folklorist Louise Bennett sings Jamaican folk songs, work songs, dancing songs and banana-boat-loading songs. Amongst these songs are parables, cautionary tales and opportunities... more
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- Haitian Folk Songs
- Artist:
  Frantz Casseus
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Puerto Rican-born, Haitian-bred vocalist Lolita Cuevas and Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus lyrically come together in rendering some of the most beautiful folk songs of Haiti. Arranged... more
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- Cuba Va: Songs New Generation / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Written, arranged, performed and produced in Cuba by the Experimental Sound Collective of ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries). Sung in Spanish, with illustrated booklet,... more
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- Folk Songs of Puerto Rico / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- It's all about cultural roots: On this record, the presence of the decima (a ballad-like song form often philosophical in nature) and the pasodoble (a fast Spanish dance that introduces a bull fight... more
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- Real Calypso: 1927-1946 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This compilation is an introduction to the golden age of calypso and to some of it's greatest exponents. The genre is known for it's incisive social commentary, and the songs on this album retain the... more
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- Haitian Dances
- Artist:
  Frantz Casseus
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus charged himself with the mission of building a repertoire for guitar blending Haitian folk music and European classical music, much as Villa Lobos had... more
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- Drums of Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This recording of hand drumming from Port of Spain demonstrates African-derived rhythms performed in Trinidad and the broader Caribbean region, including the nation, koromanti, manding, halicord,... more
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- Steel Band Clash / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Recorded in 1955, three sixteen-person steel bands-Big Shell, Brute Force and Hell's Gate-come together to provide a sampling of lively music from Antigua. Many of these meringues, sambas, mambos,... more
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- Brute Force of Antigua / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- For this Cook recording, the Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua performs mambos, rumbas, sambas, calypsos and meringues plus a march and a bolero. A Trinidadian / Tobagan innovation that came out of... more
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- Music of St. Lucia / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This field recording reflects several musical traditions of the British commonwealth of St. Lucia. Traditions represented include English-influenced military brass bands and marches for fife and... more
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- Music to Awaken the Ballroom Beast
- Artist:
  Brute Force Steel Band
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the streets of Antigua shortly following WWII, the Brute Force Steel Band began as one of the ensembles that would pioneer Caribbean steel pan music. These calypsos, meringues, sambas, tangos and... more
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- Jump Up Carnival / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- And now ladies and gentlemen... Lord Melody's coming to knock you out now. The audience roars as the calypsonian king boasts about his ugly looks and the "booboo" his children see in the yard.... more
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- Le Jazz Primitif from Trinidad
- Artist:
  John "Buddy" Williams
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Hardly "primitive," this is sophisticated jazz improv "with the Trinidad touch." the musical settings range from smooth lounge jazz with vibes, piano, bass, and drums to funky importations of... more
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- Grenada Stories & Songs / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This field recording begins to document the tradition of spoken and sung storytelling in Grenada, a small island in the Caribbean. Full of humor, stories are told in English or English patois by a... more
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- Cuba: Songs for Our America
- Artist:
  Carlos Puebla
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Carlos Puebla challenged foreign influences and the forces of imperialism in 1950s Cuba with songs about his oppressed countrymen. Then, in his music, he chronicled and celebrated the 1959... more
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- Puerto Rico: Como El Filo Del Machete
- Artist:
  Andres Jiminez
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Haitiana
- Artist:
  Frantz Casseus
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Smithsonian Folkways
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Lord Melody Sings Calypso
- Artist:
  Lord Melody
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The legendary calypsonian Lord Melody (nee Fitzroy Alexander) put together the songs on this recording in a matter of days, but it is a superb demonstration of the genre. A dynamic performer known... more
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- Tiroro the Haitian Drummer
- Artist:
  Ti Roro
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Master drummer Tiroro performs traditional rhythms of Haitian vodou on a single drum, manipulating the drum into producing multiple pitches and timbres. This dynamic recording primarily consists of... more
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- Meringue!
- Artist:
  Ensemble Aux Calebasses
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Who first invented the meringue has long been a battle of pride for Haitians and Dominicans. While this recording alone cannot provide the decisive answer, it does prove that the lively dance form is... more
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- Calypso Lore & Legend / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- 71-year old Chinee Patrick Jones, one of the most famous old-time Calypsonians to pass through Port of Spain, tells stories from his singing days and sings old tunes. As Jones reminisces, Carnival... more
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- Hellish Calypso / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Why "Hellish"? the liner notes explain that it's in part because of the very apparent "pear-shaped atrocities" a listener hears in out-of-tune melodies and unintelligible lyrics. But this is a "basic... more
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- Calypso Atrocities / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Saucy, ballsy, outspoken, yes, but not exactly an "atrocity." Pay close attention to these calypso lyrics by Small Island Pride and Mighty Cypher.
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- Calypso Jamaica / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This is not the glossy, occasionally dross calypso that entertains tourists or wins Calypso King competitions. It is more rustic in flavor, speaks more to non-urban audiences and is accompanied only... more
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- Jawbone of An Ass / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This Conga is all alcohol, percussion and one Chinese Trumpet. So says Ariel Fiallo Arias, a citizen of Santiago, in describing a music almost singularly identified with his homeland. With melodic... more
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