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On Umalali, The Garifuna Women’s Project, Belizean producer Ivan Duran beautifully recorded and arranged the songs of the African-American women of Central America’s Caribbean coast.

As on Ivan’s award-winning production of Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective’s Wátina, utmost care has been put into faithfully capturing the essence of this community-based music while tastefully modernising it, mixing the women’s voices with studio-recorded massed percussion and acoustic and electric guitars. Umalali (‘voice’ in the Garifuna language) began in 1997 when Ivan began travelling to Garifunan villages in search of exceptional female voices. After 5 years of preparation, he set up a studio in a small, thatch-roofed hut on stilts on the Caribbean beach in the village of Hopkins, Belize. He then took the tapes to his studio in western Belize and spent 5 years finessing them. The result of this decade-plus labour of love is this beautiful aural document that brings the songs of the daily lives of these women to the attention of the world.

Playlist

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Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

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CD Cut 3 - 'Yündüya Weyu' (The Sun Has Set)
Sofia Blanco Arzú, arr Ivan Duran
Stonetree Music BMI administered by Cumbancha Music Publishing
Cumbancha Stonetree Records CMB-CD 6 ( in Australia, through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: www.cumbancha.com )
The Garifuna Women's Project - 'Umalali'
(Tropical slink in the Paranda style with hand percussion and acoustic guitars and Sofia Blanco's song about the difficult birth of her baby , Goyito)

Segue

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CD Cut 12, 'Ámeñegu' (In Times To Come)
Andy Palacio
Stonetree Music (Bmi), Admin By Comparsa
Cumbancha CMB-CD-3
( in ( in Australia, through Fuse Music www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: www.cumbancha.com
And: www.stonetreerecords.com )
Andy Palacio And The Garifuna Collective - Wátina'
5: 27
(The lead singer is the author of this stirring-rhytmic garifuna anthem which urges parents to keep alive the Garifuna culture and to teach their children the language. Has some lovely lead elec guitar from the Honduran, Eduardo 'Guayo' Cedeño ).

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CD Cut 4 - 'Barübana Yagian' (Take Me Away)
Sylvia Baltazar Rochez, arr Ivan Duran
Stonetree Music BMI administered by Cumbancha Music Publishing
Cumbancha Stonetree Records CMB-CD 6 ( in Australia, through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: www.cumbancha.com )
The Garifuna Women's Project - 'Umalali'
3:31
(Sofia Blanco's daughter Silvia, who has been singing with her family since she was a child)

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CD Cut 2 - 'Deni Wana'
Les Amazones, arr Maitre Mamadou Aliou Barry
Pub Not Spec
Sterns Music STCD LC 15328 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.sternsmusic.com ) (this release not currently distributed in Australia)
Les Amazones de Guinée - 'Wamato'
3:55
(Soukous groove with deep female vocals about maternal love and the eternal gratitude each child owes to the one who, for 9 months, suffered to give them life while risking their very own. Traditionally, the measure of a child's success is the love they feel for their mother.)

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CD Cut 3 - 'Beautiful Life'
Robbie Bundle/B Drougas
Control
RBGA 0701 (Through Goanna Arts)
Robbie Bundle - 'Out There'
(Austral comp and perf: gentle song about hanging on to life, with drums, bass, acoustic and electric guitars and female harmonies)

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CD Cut 4 - 'Live in Two Words'
Dave Arden/A Alberts/ G Edwards
Control
GADA 0108 www.davearden.com.au
Dave Arden - 'Kookatha/Gunditjmara Clan'
5:11
(Austral comp and perf: Country rock song about living in the Aboriginal and the White Man's world at once)

DAVE ARDEN AND ROBBIE BUNDLE CD LAUNCH ALERT:

8:00, Thursday, 31st July Manchester Lane, 36 Manchester Lane, Melbourne
With Archie Roach, Shane Howard and others
03 9663 0630
www.manchesterlane.com.au

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CD Cut 4 - 'Aimer'
Rokia Traoré
Tama
Tama Productions 530 785 7
Rokia Traoré - 'Tchamantché'
4:10 with guitar coda
(Rokia's breathy, intimate but powerful voice in song in French professing her love for life that slowly builds with much percussion and percussive lutes)

RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:

Rokia Traoré - 'Tchamantché' will be the featured CD on the Weekend Planet with Doug Spencer, from 220-2400 on Sunday, 3 August. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/stories/2008/2281223.htm

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CD Cut 11 - 'Áfayahádina' (I Have Traveled)
Eleuteria Castillo, arr Ivan Duran
Stonetree Music BMI administered by Cumbancha Music Publishing
Cumbancha Stonetree Records CMB-CD 6 ( in Australia, through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: www.cumbancha.com )
The Garifuna Women's Project - 'Umalali'
One minute excerpt
(Dense percussion and acoustic and electric guitars as Chela Torres sings a song in the voice of an heiress who chooses to remain in her home village. It was the first song selected for this recording)

Presenter

Lucky Oceans

Producer

Lucky Oceans