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Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs (CD)

Name: Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs (CD)
SKU: 90690298
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Artist: Leyla McCalla
Genre: Country, Folk
Format: CD
Record Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Description

Leyla McCalla's Vari-Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes' poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience. McCalla's music elegantly weaves Haitian influences together with American folk music, just as Hughes incorporated Black vernacular into his remarkable poetry, and the way the Haitian Kreyòl is a beacon for the survival of African identity through the brutal legacy of colonialism. This is music of reclamation, imbued with a quiet power that grapples with the immense weight of history.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Heart of Gold
2. When I Can See the Valley
3. Mesi Bondye
4. Girl
5. Kamèn Sa w FÈ?
6. Too Blue
7. Manman Mwen
8. Song for a Dark Girl
9. As I Grew Older / Dreamer
10. Love Again Blues
11. Rose Marie
12. Latibonit
13. Search
14. Lonely House
15. Changing Tide

Specifications

Record label: Smithsonian Folkways

Genre: Folk, Country

Musical Artist: Leyla McCalla

Format: CD

Street Date: October 16, 2020

TCIN: 90690298

UPC: 093074024126

Item Number (DPCI): 244-02-8231

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 5.75 inches length x 4.77 inches width x 0.34 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 0.18 pounds

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