Various Artists - Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Vodun-Rada Rite Erzulie / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/30/2012

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The hymns on this 1980 Folkways were recorded during services in Spiritual Baptist churches in northwestern Trinidad between 1976 and 1979. Worship alternates between InchcoolInch periods of quiet contemplation and InchhotInch periods that call forth manifestations of the Holy Ghost (for example, Inchspeaking in tonguesInch). The record contains a variety of hymns that are performed during services, from fast-paced songs to an innovative Inchshout.Inch Liner notes describe in detail this international religious movement's distinctive baptism and mourning rites.