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SAVAE, La Noche Buena
Label: World Library • Genre: Christmas Music of Colonial Latin America
If you want warm music that’s appropriate for the holidays
yet still has the thrill of the unusual, you can’t do better
than this mesmerizing disc from the San Antonio Vocal
Arts Ensemble. The Spanish conquest of America produced
a rich mixture of indigenous Latin American, West
European and West African musical forms. Written half a
millennium ago by Spanish, Portuguese and Native
American composers, these vigorous songs incorporate
influences and instruments such as the teponaztli log drum,
huehuetl drum, maracas, soprano recorder, wooden rattle,
ayacaxtli gourd shaker, bells, cabasa,
djembe, tambourine, coyolli jingles, guiro,
chicahuatzli rain stick and more.
01/10/06 >> go there