Various Artists - Folk Music of India / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

71-year old Chinee Patrick Jones, one of the most famous old-time Calypsonians to pass through Port of Spain, tells stories from his singing days and sings old tunes. As Jones reminisces, Carnival 1956 rages throughout the city, and this recording offers the chance to sample tunes from the calypso tent. Also featured is the music of an early string band from Santa Cruz led by flutist Poposit. Album Tracks 1. Old Songs and Stories from Trinidad 1 2. Old Songs and Stories from Trinidad 2 3. Old Songs and Stories from Trinidad 3 4. Calypso Tent The Ugly One 5. Calypso Tent Steel Band in Carnival 6. Calypso Tent Bamboo Tamboo Session 7. Bakalia 8. Spanish Waltz 9. Paseo 10. Spanish Waltz

The area designated by the vague term 'Upper Amazon' is actually incredibly extensive. The great Amazon system drains three million square miles of territory, or approximately half the South American continent. Some of it's most remote tributaries, fed by melting glaciers in the Andes, originate less than eighty miles from the Pacific coast. Others extend upward into the highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This vast area, flanking the eastern slopes of the Andean chain, embraces a bewildering number of Indian tribes, an almost unbelievable number of unrelated languages, and a series of tropical forest cultures that range from exceedingly simple and primitive to highly sophisticated and complex... Harry Tschopik, Jr. Album Tracks 1. Fiesta Music 2. Fiesta Drum Music 3. Social Dance Music 4. Traveling Music 5. Girl's Puberty Rite 6. Public Work Music 7. Social Dance Music 8. Work Song 9. Welcoming Drum Music 10. War Song 11. Dance for Adolescent Girl 12. Lullaby 13. War Music 14. Drinking Music 15. Fiesta Dance Music 16. Fiesta Dance Music 17. Game Lure Whistle 18. Social Dance Music 19. Fiesta Drum Music 20. Social Dance Music 21. Social Dance Music 22. Fiesta Music 23. Public Work Music 24. Animal Sacrifice Music 25. Funeral Music 26. Fiesta Drum Music

The Kashmir Valley, which separates the Himalayan and Pir Panjal mountain ranges, is a meeting point between northwestern India, eastern Pakistan, and Central Asia. The grandeur of this environment manifests itself in Kashmiri folk music-as the liner notes describe, InchHeard across the lakes and waters at night as it echoes over surrounding mountains, it has a haunting, romantic appeal.Inch Folk Music of Kashmir presents Kashmiri singing and traditional instruments such as the santur, the bamboo flute, the tabla, and the mutkah, a percussive clay pot renowned for it's resonance. Liner notes include a description of Kashmir, track notes, illustrations of instruments, and pictures. Album Tracks 1. Santur 2. Title Music 3. Title Music 4. Love and the Beauty of Nature 5. Instrumental 6. Song of the Boatmen 7. Love Duet 8. Song of the Nightingale 9. Instrumental 10. Romantic Music 11. Song of the Silkworms 12. Beautiful Kashmir 13. Song of Spring