Garifuna Music

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 1, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arc Music
• ASIN: B0007PLKPW
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,808 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Raw and Pure, June 2, 2008

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Dr. Debra Jan Bibel "World Music Explorer" (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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After listening to the new CD, Umalali: The Garifuna Women's Project, I purchased this CD of field recordings from the Garifuna people of Belize. While Umalali presents a more professional sound, polished by studio processing and embellished at times with guitar and horns, this CD gives us unprocessed samples of any day, anywhere music. Here, percussion dominates the vocals with drums, maracas shakers, clave, and conch shell. The enclosed booklet provides some historical background of the culture, its mixed Carib-Arawak Amer-Indian language supplemented with English, French, and African, and the various musical forms and rhythms. Most tracks seem strongly African influenced, but several others are in Caribbean Latin style (parranda and bolero). Thus, the two CDs complement each other nicely. These raw field recordings emphasize the pure spirit of the Garifuna people and provide presence.