Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs [New CD] Digipack Packaging

Description: Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs [New CD] Digipack Packaging Artist: Leyla McCalla Title: Vari-Colored Songs Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2020 Label: Smithsonian Folkways UPC: 093074024126 Genre: Country, Folk Album Tracks1. Heart of Gold2. When I Can See the Valley3. Mesi Bondye4. Girl5. Kamèn Sa w FÈ?6. Too Blue7. Manman Mwen8. Song for a Dark Girl9. As I Grew Older / Dreamer10. Love Again Blues11. Rose Marie12. Latibonit13. Search14. Lonely House15. Changing Tide Leyla McCalla's Vari-Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes' poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience. McCalla's music elegantly weaves Haitian influences together with American folk music, just as Hughes incorporated Black vernacular into his remarkable poetry, and the way the Haitian Kreyòl is a beacon for the survival of African identity through the brutal legacy of colonialism. This is music of reclamation, imbued with a quiet power that grapples with the immense weight of history.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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