Matanzas, Cuba, ca. 1957 : Afro-Cuban sacred music from the countryside.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cabrera, Lydia
Tarafa, Josefina
Language:Yoruba
Bantu (Other)
Language and/or Writing System:
Sung principally in Yoruba and Bantu.
Published: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2001], ℗2001.
Subjects:
Santeria music > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
Black people > Cuba > Matanzas (Province) > Music.
Folk music > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
Percussion ensembles.
Folk songs, Yoruba > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
Folk songs, Bantu > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
Field recordings > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
Genre:
Music.
Physical Description:1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Matanzas, Cuba, circa 1957.
Afro-Cuban sacred music from the countryside.
Format: CD Audio
Contents:
  • Toque Oyo ; Toque Arará ; Toque Mina-Yona : (obatalá) (Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Angel Rolando, drums ; Domingo Hernández, Jr., hoe blade)
  • Mo juba ocha = I pay homage to the orisha ; Ogún Onile (Inés Sotomayor and group)
  • Ibarabo ago mo juba = Song for Eleguá ; Song for Ogún ; Oshosi : Ayilodá mala mala de = Song for Oshosi (Marcos Portillo Dominguez and group)
  • Omodara dei = Song for Orishaoko (Emiliano de Armas and group)
  • Babaluaiyé ; Shangó ; Oyá ; Yemayá (Marcos Portillo Dominguez and group)
  • Osain songs (Domingo Hernandez)
  • Guirigi tongo un mene mene ó ; Magó kueki bay arere ; Okun leo, vamo' pa' la loma (Florinda Pastor, Agustin Diago and group)
  • Toque Yesá : for Inlé (Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Angel Rolando, drums ; Domingo Hernández, Jr., hoe blade)
  • Urú Dadá ; Shangó moforibale ; Yeyé/Songs for Iroko (Alberto Yenkins and group)
  • Toque Yesá : for Oshún (Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Angel Rolando, drums ; Domingo Hernández, Jr., hoe blade)
  • Moforibale Ogún = I pay homage to Ogún (Unknown soloist with Inés Sotomayor and group)
  • Olokun (Fernando Hernández, vocals ; Inés Sotomayor's group)
  • Toque egbado ; Toque de bembé (Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Angel Rolando, drums ; Domingo Hernández, Jr., hoe blade).