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Aurelio - "Laru Beya"
Laru Beya translates to "on the beach" in Garifuna, the language of a tiny Caribbean/Central American minority whose ancestors were an intermingling of native people with the survivors of the wreck of a slave ship on the island of St. Vincent. Now spread along the Caribbean coast of Central America, the Garifuna are a people without a home, but who have retained both language and culture, including, of course, music. Aurelio is one of only a very few Garifuna musicians who anyone outside of the Central America is likely to have heard (the late Andy Palacio being one, and the women who make up Umalali being the others), and what a find he is! Laru Beya, his second album, highlights both the African and the Caribbean sides of the Afro-Caribbean coin, with enough modernism to keep it accessible and enough of a twist to make it all his own. 01/01/12 >> go there
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