Deep, deep Afro-Belizean music. Belize is in Central America and on the western edge of the Caribbean. The music shows the mixture of African and Central American roots.
Here, percussion features alongside vocals with drums, maracas shakers, clave, and conch shell. The enclosed booklet provides some historical background of the culture, its mixed Carib-Arawak Amer-Indian language supplemented with English, French, and African, and the various musical forms and rhythms. Most tracks seem strongly African influenced, but several others are in Caribbean Latin style (such as paranda).