Blog: Transmissions From Wintermute

World Music Post (Volume Whatever!?)

Special Preview: "Umalali: Songs of Garifuna Women"
"> One thing I love about World Music is not only the diversity of the music itself and the constantly expanding root system that is continually influencing the different facets of itself like a 3-D sphere of complicated electrical circuitry, but the fact that it sometimes (assuming you can understand it) has a sobering story to tell, often folkloric and survival based. I recently bought a CD entitled "Umalali" The Garifuna Women's project . It is the singing/storytelling of the Garifuna people, descendants of Nigerian slaves, [...]
Link Text:Umalali, The Garifuna Women's Project - Anaha Ya (Here I Am)
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Link Text:Umalali, The Garifuna Women's Project - Merua
File Name:02Merua.mp3