SHANGO Talking Drums & Ceremonial Songs Trinidad 1953 L

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• Title: Shango ~ Talking Drums and Ceremonial Dance Songs of the Yaruba Shango Cult
• Artist: Popo Arindell with “Yaruba Drummers, and Olive, Joe and Mangua.”
• Year: 1953
  
• Label: Dial
  
• Catalog #: 403
  
• Track Listing: see photos 
• Grading Standards:  Click here to view grading standards
• Vinyl: VG to VG+  play grade
• Notes: The vinyl still possesses a nice luster to it, although it does have numerous surface scuffs and spindle marks, more so on Side 2; Side 1 plays very close to VG+, or slightly below that, with light & intermittent background surface noise and some light isolated ticking; Side 2 plays with consistent light extraneous background noise throughout, and also a few light isolated ticks; no serious pops, ticks or skips were heard. 
  
• Cover: The cardboard picture sleeve is not included
• Info: Dr. Donald R. Hill, Professor of Anthropology & Chair SUNY-Oneonta, NY writes: "The Dial recordings of music of Trinidad's Orisha (Shango) may be the first commercial recordings of such music. The “Shango” music comes from one of several African like religious communities scattered throughout the island that perpetuated Yoruban, Dahomean, and other African cultures in a highly syncretistic form.  This music had its origins in the middle nineteenth century when some Nigerians and other Africans were captured as slaves and shipped to the Caribbean.  They were “freed” by the British and landed in Trinidad where they joined other Africans brought to the island as indentured labor.The Dial 10” long playing albums were the first LPs recorded in studio in Trinidad, and the performers were Popo Arindell with “Yaruba Drummers, and Olive, Joe and Mangua.”  Dr. Hill adds:
      The Shango cult people who are heard here are city people who live on the Quarry Hill, on the east side of Port of Spain and who go to the near-by country side to practice their religion.  Joe and the three percussionists are employed in the local abattoir, while Olive sells limes on Picadilly Street near the market.  The recording date is fortunate in the participation of Popo Arindell, who plays guitar in a seaman’s bar in Port of Spain for his living, but is a Shango man with a profound interest in religion, magic, music, dance and of course Shango, which combines all elements.
  

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