Folk Music of Haiti

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Annotation

Special custom CD of the 1951 recording

Tracklist

1CD
#TitleArtistLength
1Pilet Pied’m (Ibo dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Morgina Lavache, with chorus, drums1:33
2M’Pas Bwè M’Pas Mangé (work song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Libera Borderau and Ti Yogan, with mortar sounds1:31
3Ogoun Balindjo (invocation)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
LaFrance Belvue1:29
4Èzilie Wèdo (invocation)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
LaFrance Belvue1:18
5La Famille Li Fai Ca (Ibo dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Lena Hibbert, with chorus, drums1:47
6Moundongue Oh Yè Yè Yè (Moundongue dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
LaFrance Belvue, with chorus, drums1:51
7Zamis Loin Moin (secular song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Dimervil Servers1:04
8Alexis Nord (political song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Dimervil Servers0:46
9Ou Pas We’m Innocent (secular song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Aleanne François1:00
10Mainin’m Allé (Congo dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Ti Yogan and Morgina Lavache1:49
11Coté Yo, Coté Yo (Mais dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Libera Borderau, with bamboo stampers and irons1:07
12Crapeau Tingélé (play song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Libera Borderau and Ti Yogan0:46
13Balancé Yaya (play song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Edgar Derosier1:31
14Trois Fé (social criticism)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Christophe Oxilas, with mosquito drum1:09
15Spirit Conversation
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Cult priest at Léogâne with bell, spectators2:01
16Général Brisé (Quitta dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
LaFrance Belvue, with chorus, drums1:47
17Mayousse (carnival song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Male voices with marimba1:53
18Paulette (romantic song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Sigbrien Bellis and Veneise Macelise, with guitar, marimba1:54

Credits

Release

design:Ronald Clyne
ASIN:US: B00242W40G [info] (from 2012-05-30 to present)
purchase for mail-order:https://folkways.si.edu/vol-1-folk-music-of-haiti/caribbean-world/album/smithsonian [info]