Smithsonian Folkways Special Collection on DeepDiscount

- 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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- 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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- West Indian Folksongs for Children
- Artist:
  Lord Invader
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Released in 1960, West Indian Folksongs for Children features original compositions by the Trinidadian Calypso singer Lord Invader. Some of the tunes are twists on other classics. For example,... 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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- 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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- Habla Albizu Campos (Albizu Campos Speaks)
- Artist:
  Albizu Campos
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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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: Algo Se Quema Alla a Fuera
- Artist:
  Estrella Artau
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Through these songs we can see the pain, desperation, and courage, of we who are oppressed by this capitalist system. The oppressors have US in a strangle-hold, but they have not succeeded in... more
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- Tengo Puerto Rico en Mi Corazon
- Artist:
  Pepe Y Flora
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- I don't want anyone to listen to this record until they've put some truths into their heads. Because without these truths, you can never really understand this record on anything that comes out of a... more
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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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- Songs Dances Puerto Rico / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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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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- Champion Steel Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Headliners at Carnival and pan competitions, these six champion steel bands from Trinidad offer listeners songs that hum gently or dance wildly. Participating ensembles are the Katzenjammers, the... 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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- 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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- Calypso Cross Section / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Juxtaposing the musical talents of vocalists Bomber, Wrangler, Killer and Small Island Pride, the art of the 1950s Trinidadian calypso resonates on this recording. These witty songs provide a lesson... more
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- Belly to Belly Dancing / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Nestled in the Port of Spain, the Tom Charles, Fitz Vaughn Bryan, Johnny Gomez and Clarence Curvan Orchestras as well as the Vin Cardinal Combo provide alternatively upbeat and sultry grooves for... more
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- Caribbean Limbo Music
- Artist:
  Lord Melody
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- How low can you go? Chances are, you'll laugh (or at least giggle) before you reach your limit. These largely instrumental pieces with limbo-appropriate rhythms are interspersed with brief humorous... 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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- 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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- 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 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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- Calypso Rock Songs of Jamaica
- Artist:
  Horace Johnson
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- I didn't go to a Music School, it's just an in-born talent. I experience and learnt the hardest way," says Jamaican vocalist Horace Johnson. You'll recognize Belafonte's "Island in the Sun" and... more
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- Mr. Gavitt: Calypsos of Costa Rica
- Artist:
  Walter Ferguson
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Calypso survives sporadically in Limon and Bocas del Toro (Panama), especially around Carnival time, in the spring. Elsewhere on the mainland, the calypso culture is gone, driven out by radios and... more
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