The Creole Choir of Cuba - Tande-La (2010)
BAND/ARTIST: The Creole Choir of Cuba
- Title: Tande
- Year Of Release: 2010
- Label: Real World Records
- Genre: World, Afro-Cuban
- Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log) & artwork
- Total Time: 00:42:35
- Total Size: 301 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
February 2010 and just over a month after the massive January earthquake that devastated Haiti, the Creole Choir of Cuba are in Port-au-Prince living with the 600 strong long term Cuban medical mission. Each morning early they leave to visit makeshift encampments, where in whatever shade is available they sing with everyone present, their aim “to help the Haitian people de-stress with music”. They spend evenings singing with local children who gravitate to the Cuban compound before bedding down on mattresses in tents in the grounds of the hospital behind the ruined Presidential Palace. It’s a moving experience for the choir who are all of Haitian descent. Back home in Cuba they are known as Grupo Vocal Desandann and Desandann literally means ‘descendents’. They have revived the Haitian songs of their families for modern times because for them, “Music is like food, it feeds the spirit and inspires everyday life”.
The Creole Choir’s ten remarkable singers come from Camagüey, Cuba’s third city, down towards the eastern end of the island. They grew up and studied music in this old colonial town, today a UNESCO World heritage Site due to its iconic architecture. The Choir was founded in 1994 during the ‘Special Period’ when the Cuban economy fell into a black hole following the end of the USSR and of Soviet support for the revolution. Food was short while homes and work places often went dark due to lack of electricity. It was during this challenging time that members of the Professional Choir of Camagüey who were descendents of Haitians decided to re-forge the resistance songs and laments of their forebears, to celebrate the history of their Haitian descendents enslaved to the Caribbean from West Africa. To the songs that had been passed down in their families since the early 19th century, they added more modern Haitian sounds learnt following their own first visit to a Haitian festival in 1996.
Tracklist:
1 01. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Edem Chanté (03:56)
1 02. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Se Lavi (01:53)
1 03. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Maroule (04:03)
1 04. The Creole Choir of Cuba - La Mal de Travay (03:25)
1 05. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Neg Anwo (04:55)
1 06. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Peze Café (02:54)
1 07. The Creole Choir of Cuba - L'Atibonite Oh (02:44)
1 08. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Tande (05:41)
1 09. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Lumane Casimir (04:28)
1 10. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Fey (03:38)
1 11. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Dulce Embelezo (01:43)
1 12. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Chen Nan Ren (03:09)
The Creole Choir’s ten remarkable singers come from Camagüey, Cuba’s third city, down towards the eastern end of the island. They grew up and studied music in this old colonial town, today a UNESCO World heritage Site due to its iconic architecture. The Choir was founded in 1994 during the ‘Special Period’ when the Cuban economy fell into a black hole following the end of the USSR and of Soviet support for the revolution. Food was short while homes and work places often went dark due to lack of electricity. It was during this challenging time that members of the Professional Choir of Camagüey who were descendents of Haitians decided to re-forge the resistance songs and laments of their forebears, to celebrate the history of their Haitian descendents enslaved to the Caribbean from West Africa. To the songs that had been passed down in their families since the early 19th century, they added more modern Haitian sounds learnt following their own first visit to a Haitian festival in 1996.
Tracklist:
1 01. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Edem Chanté (03:56)
1 02. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Se Lavi (01:53)
1 03. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Maroule (04:03)
1 04. The Creole Choir of Cuba - La Mal de Travay (03:25)
1 05. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Neg Anwo (04:55)
1 06. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Peze Café (02:54)
1 07. The Creole Choir of Cuba - L'Atibonite Oh (02:44)
1 08. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Tande (05:41)
1 09. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Lumane Casimir (04:28)
1 10. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Fey (03:38)
1 11. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Dulce Embelezo (01:43)
1 12. The Creole Choir of Cuba - Chen Nan Ren (03:09)
World | Folk | Latin | FLAC / APE | CD-Rip
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