VA - Venezuela: Afro-Venezuelan Music Vol. 1&2 (2014)

African people of many cultural backgrounds were brought as slaves in Spanish colonial times to what is now the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. Through a culture of resistance, they and their descendants preserved and adapted the musical instruments, sounds, and rhythms of their past to life in their new homeland. Recorded in local communities throughout the region, this extraordinary ethnographic collection of Afro-Venezuelan music paints a lively mosaic of the vitality and diversity of Afro-Venezuelan music at the close of the 20th century.

TRACKLIST
01. Community of La Sabana - Macizón-Gangue (Cumaco) (10:06)
02. Community of La Sabana - Mono-Perra (Cumaco) (7:29)
03. Community of Bobures - Cántica (Chimbánguele) (4:12)
04. Community of Bobures - Golpe Chocho (Chimbánguele) (5:08)
05. Community of Bobures - Ajé-Benito-Ajé (Chimbánguele) (4:25)
06. Community of Bobures - Chimbangalero Vaya (Chimbánguele) (4:42)
07. Community of Bobures - Songorongome Vaya (Chimbánguele) (4:33)
08. Community of Bobures - Misericordia Señor (Chimbánguele) (5:24)
09. Community of El Tocuyo - Yiyivamos (Tamunangue) (3:32)
10. Community of El Tocuyo - La Bella (Tamunangue) (2:16)
11. Community of El Tocuyo - Juluminga (Tamunangue) (3:40)
12. Community of El Tocuyo - Poco a Poco (Tamunangue) (7:14)
13. Community of Barlovento - Barlovento 'E la Tierra del Cacao (Parranda) (4:37)
14. Community of Barlovento - Rajuñao (Culo 'E Puya) (4:12)
15. Community of Barlovento - Yo Vengo Regando Flores (Guaza) (3:09)
16. Community of Barlovento - Décima al Muchacho (Fulia) (6:01)
17. Community of Barlovento - Bocón (Quitiplás) (2:52)
18. Community of Barlovento - Cantos a Barlovento (Tonada de Tambor Mina) (10:23)
19. Community of Barlovento - Gallina No Tiene Teta (Joropo de Bandola Barloventeño) (5:19)
20. Community of Barlovento - Adiós Puebla Cantadores (Joropo de Bandola Barloventeño) (5:47)
21. Community of Barlovento - Marimba de Boca Song (1:51)
22. Community of Barlovento - El Araguato (1:28)
23. Community of Yaracuy - Quiéreme Niña (Luango Golpeao) (3:31)
24. Community of Yaracuy - Viene Saliendo la Luna (Sangueo) (4:28)
25. Community of Yaracuy - Cantos a San Juan (Sirenas) (2:49)
26. Community of Yaracuy - No Hay Suegra Coma la Mía (Luango Trancao) (2:38)