Leyla McCalla Vari-Colored Songs - A Tribute To Langston Hughes (CD)

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Leyla McCalla: Vari-Colored Songs - A Tribute To Langston Hughes (CD)

(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) 15 tracks, digipack

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.

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Interpret: Leyla McCalla
Album titlle: Vari-Colored Songs - A Tribute To Langston Hughes (CD)
Genre Jazz
Artikelart CD
Label Smithsonian Folkways Records
EAN: 0093074024126
weight in Kg 0.1

McCalla, Leyla - Vari-Colored Songs - A Tribute To Langston Hughes (CD) CD 1
01	Heart Of Gold	Leyla McCalla
02	When I Can See The Valley	Leyla McCalla
03	Mesi Bondye	Leyla McCalla
04	Girl	Leyla McCalla
05	Kamèn Sa W Fè?	Leyla McCalla
06	Too Blue	Leyla McCalla
07	Manman Mwen	Leyla McCalla
08	Song For A Dark Girl	Leyla McCalla
09	Dreamer	As I Grew Older
10	Love Again Blues	Leyla McCalla
11	Rose Marie	Leyla McCalla
12	Latibonit	Leyla McCalla
13	Search	Leyla McCalla
14	Lonely House	Leyla McCalla
15	Changing Tide	Leyla McCalla