SHANGO "Talking Drums" Dial 403 10" LP Popo Arindell Orish Yaruba African World

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"Shango / Talking Drums / Ceremonial Dance Songs Of The Yaruba Shango Cult" 10" LP on 1953 US issue Dial Records # 403 Mono. The jacket has shelf and seam wear, and browning/spotting on the back, and an old price written on the back, and is overall in good condition. The vinyl has several light to medium scuffs and scratches, and is overall in good condition / play graded around good - lots of background noise, but I didn't catch any skips, but could have missed a few. This was a "field" recording and was never intended to be high quality

 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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