Various Artists
Discover Caribbean Music (CD)

EUCD2599

This sunny collection takes you on an musical island hop around the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Trinidad, Martinique, Haïti and the Dominican Republic, and even Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela, which share a coastline and a musical ancestry with the Caribbean. Details of the albums from which these songs are taken are included in the CD booklet.

Track listing:

La musa borracha - Grupo Cimarrón De Cuba (Deibi R. Lorenzo) - 3:27
Mamito’s Calypso - King Selewa & his Calypsonians (King Selewa) - 2:10
Frapé tig-bang - Wapa Sakitanou (Christian Valléjo) - 2:47
Chicharra - Marta Gómez (Marta Gómez) - 4:11
Barbados Carnival - Mighty Panther (Vernon J. Roberts) - 2:44
Kongo - Compagnie de Ballet Folklorique Nationale d’Haïti (trad.) - 5:28
Llano Grande - Niyireth Alarcón (Sanjuanero) (Jorge Villamil) - 2:33
San Miguel y San Santiago - Boni Raposo (trad., arr. Raposo-Sosa) - 3:28
Amor por las carretas - Compañia Folclórica Matambú (Luis Aguilar López) - 2:49
Song of Freedom - King Selewa & his Calypsonians (De Crozals/Ambrose. Adapted from “Ominira” by Ambrose Campbell. Lyrics: King Selewa) - 5:06
Si tu me quieres - Víctor Hugo (Rivas Toro) - 5:00
Cuando, cuando, cuando - Steelasophical (Renis/Testa) - 3:46
Muchachita sabanera - De Norte a Sur (Torrealba-Perez, arr. Jonas) - 2:44
Watermelon Spoilin’ / Here I Go Walkin’ - André Toussaint (Blake Alphonso Higgs) - 2:40
Tengo un son - Alejandro Morales Repilado (Elsa Torres) - 3:06

Published: 2015

Genre: Middle & North America & Tango
Label: Arc Music