Folk Music of Haiti

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

Tracklist

12" Vinyl 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
A1Pilet Pied’m (Ibo dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Morgina Lavache, with chorus, drums1:33
A2M’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
A3Ogoun Balindjo (invocation)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
LaFrance Belvue1:29
A4Èzilie Wèdo (invocation)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
LaFrance Belvue1:18
A5La 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
A6Moundongue 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
A7Zamis Loin Moin (secular song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Dimervil Servers1:04
A8Alexis Nord (political song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Dimervil Servers0:46
A9Ou Pas We’m Innocent (secular song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Aleanne Francois1:00
B1Mainin’m Allé (Congo dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Ti Yogan and Morgina Lavache1:49
B2Coté 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
B3Crapeau Tingélé (play song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Libera Borderau and Ti Yogan0:46
B4Balancé Yaya (play song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Edgar Derosier1:31
B5Trois Fé (social criticism)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Christophe Oxilas, with mosquito drum1:09
B6Spirit Conversation
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Cult priest at Léogâne with bell, spectators2:01
B7Général Brisé (Quitta dance song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
LaFrance Belvue, with chorus, drums1:47
B8Mayousse (carnival song)
recorded in:
Haiti
producer:
Moses Asch
editor and field recordings:
Harold Courlander
Male voices with marimba1:53
B9Paulette (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

photography and liner notes:Harold Courlander
design:Ronald Clyne
copyrighted (©) by:Folkways Records & Service Corporation (company behind the Folkways Records label) (in 1951)
pressed at:Plastylite in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/4237013 [info]