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The sign and the seal : transmissions of the metaphysics of a culture / Steve Coleman and the Mystic Rhythm Society in collaboration with AfroCuba de Matanzas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: 74321-40727-2 | RCA VictorSpoken language: Portuguese, Spanish, Yoruba Publication details: New York : RCA Victor, p1996.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
Other title:
  • Transmissions of the metaphysics of a culture
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SDC 45613
Contents:
The diurnal lord (for Agayú) (7:56) -- The seal (Elekotó for Agayú) (9:35) -- Passage of the river (for Oshún) (9:08) -- Oyá natureza (4:57) -- Secretos del Abacuá (11:19) -- Saudade (5:11) -- The metamorhphosis of Amalia (12:31) -- The mystery of seven (The Guaguancó in progression) (12:02) -- Prologue (:19) -- Guaguancó (2:53) -- Abacuá/Obatalá (1:37) -- Són (2:33) -- Abacuá/Obatalá (:27) -- Montuno (4:42) -- Epilogue (:46).
Steve Coleman, alto saxophone ; the Mystic Rhythm Society ; AfroCuba de Matanzas.
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CD CD Vermont Jazz Center Commercially Recorded Music Collection Archive Room Available Lou Kannenstine Collection 39088000000835

Produced by Steve Coleman.

Compact disc.

Program notes in English and French, with texts of Cuban songs in Yoruba [Lucumi] and Spanish with English and French translations ([15] p. : ports.)--inserted in container.

The diurnal lord (for Agayú) (7:56) -- The seal (Elekotó for Agayú) (9:35) -- Passage of the river (for Oshún) (9:08) -- Oyá natureza (4:57) -- Secretos del Abacuá (11:19) -- Saudade (5:11) -- The metamorhphosis of Amalia (12:31) -- The mystery of seven (The Guaguancó in progression) (12:02) -- Prologue (:19) -- Guaguancó (2:53) -- Abacuá/Obatalá (1:37) -- Són (2:33) -- Abacuá/Obatalá (:27) -- Montuno (4:42) -- Epilogue (:46).

Steve Coleman, alto saxophone ; the Mystic Rhythm Society ; AfroCuba de Matanzas.

Recorded Feb. 21-23, 1996 at the Egrem Studios in La Habana, Cuba. Additional recording done Mar. 20, 1996 at Studio Acousti in Paris, France.

Sung in Portuguese, Spanish, and Yoruba.

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