Various – Amazônia · Cult Music Of Northern Brazil 70’s Tribal Folk Latin Music Album Compilation
Label: Lyrichord – LLST 7300
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released :1976
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Tribal
Tracklist
A1 Carimbó: Despedida De São Benedito (Farewell To St. Benedict)
A2 Exú
A3 Ogum Beira-Mar
A4 Possession Sequence: Ogum Nika Befará
A5 Untitled
B1 Possession Sequence: Oxóssi-Rei Sebastião
B2 Greeting Song
B3 Caboclo De Pena
B4 Joao Da Mata
B5 Iêmanjá
B6 Water Deities (Iêmanjá Festival)
B7 Exú
B8 Sambinha Do Pará
Leader – Santana Miranda
Record Company – Lyrichord Discs, Inc.
Recorded By, Sleeve Notes – Morton Marks
Notes
A1: Played by a group of ten people using three graded drums, onça (friction drum), cavaquinbo (ukelele), banjo, flute, scraper, rattle and sheque-sheque (a can filled with pebbles).
A2: This song opens a batuque session at the Cabana Mineira de Mae Iêmanjá.
A3, A4 + B1: Recorded at the terreiro of Pai Ayrton on December 3, 1975, at the festival for Ogun.
A5 is not listed on the cover but appears on the record.
B2: Recorded at the festival for Oxóssi-São Sebastião.
B3: Recorded at the Mina-Nagô house in Belém.
B4: Recorded at the Umbanda terreiro of Pai Ayrton.
B5: A song sung in Nagô, the liturgical form of Yoruba used in the candomblé houses of Bahia.
B6: Recorded at a festival in honor of the Orixá Iêmanjá, a water deity of Yoruba origin.
B7: Closing song of a ritual cycle in the batuque houses.
B8: Samba song played by the same artists like track A1.
