[78-L] FW: Haiti

[David Lewis]

Cary,

 

Thanks for the heads up on the Haitian CD set. Unless the Haitian example Cowell used on Music of the World's Peoples sets was one drawn from Lomax' recordings I haven't heard them, but I do have the Folkways album issued in about 1976 of Haitian Rara and Dominican Gaga. I have to confess that the Rara is some of my favorite music, wild, unhibited stuff that some free jazz guys wish they could do, but can't due to the inherent restraints of that discipline.

 

So as you can imagine, I feel really, really sorry for the folks down there. It's been bad for a long time -- Haiti used to be a tropical paradise but it has lost a lot of forest owing to people cutting down trees for home heating, and that has eliminated much of the windbreak also, so the island has been really hurt by the hurricanes that have gone through there most recently. Add to that the political unrest and it was a recipe for disaster even before this latest hit.

 

Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com


 

Message: 11
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:41:42 -0800
From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
Subject: [78-L] FW: Haiti
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Very unusual coincidence happened yesterday. I had just received a large package 
in the mail and turned on the radio to hear of the disastrous earthquake 
in Haiti that cause so much destruction. When I got home, I opened the 
box to find a lavishly packaged box set of 10 CDs documenting Alan 
Lomax's field recordings in Haiti in 1936 and 1937. A lot of the music is hard to listen to, but there are many that are quite beautiful. There are some very horrifying images of the effects of the quake on the internet. I feel very bad for those people. 
 
Very strange.
 
Cary Ginell




 		 	   		  
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