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    Music From Saramaka A Dyanmic Afro-American Tradition (1977)

    Smithsonian Folkways
    • Music From Saramaka – Benta: Komanti tumao (Drumming for the Komanti gods)
    • 1. Tree-felling songs: Matjau baai
    • 2. Adunke
    • 3. History in song
    • 4. Benta: Apuku djombo (the forest spirit jumps up)
    • 5. Benta: Djebikese kula buta di kandu (Djekibese runs to place the 'protective charm')
    • 6. Benta: Gadu tumao (Drumming for the forest spirits)
    • 7. Benta: Komanti tumao (Drumming for the Komanti gods)
    • 8. Seketi Songs: Two songs of despair
    • 9. Seketi Songs: Song of disaster, Love song
    • 10. Seketi Songs: Song of quarrel
    • 11. Seketi Songs: Song of Rejection
    • 12. Seketi Songs: Song of Resignation
    • 13. Seketi Songs: Song for a maiden
    • 14. Seketi Songs: Song about a parrot
    • 15. Seketi Songs: Song of a foreign land
    • 16. The flight of the hummingbird
    • 17. Seketi drumming
    • 18. Drumming for Bandammba
    • 19. Apinti: Talking drum

    Great rhythms, chants and songs

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