Tropical Lullaby

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
A collection of authentic lullabies from tropical paradises to sweeten your child’s journey into sleep.

Accompanied in turns by wooden guitars, flutes, gentle percussion, hang pan, cuatro, piano, Batá, and ukulele, each lullaby is sung in the native tongues of Hawaii, Brazil, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Haiti, Colombia, Martinique, Tahiti and the Bahamas.

As peaceful as ocean waves rolling down a sandy beach these artfully produced bedtime songs will be enjoyed by children and adults alike.

Features Juan-Carlos Formell, Marianna Martin, Sammy Figueroa, The Moonlighters, Bobby Thomas, Juliana Barrios and many other world class artists.

24-Page Booklet Includes Original Lyrics and English Translations

Tracks:

Drume Negrita - Bola De Nieve
Lacho - Merceditas Valdes
Berceuse A Jessie - Chucho Valdes
Senora Santana - Coro Corolillo
Arrurru - Pablo Menendez
Drume Negrita - Rey Guerra
Drume Negrita - Omara Portuondo
Drume Mobila - Bola De Nieve
El Amor De Caracol Y Lombriz - Mayuley Alvarez/Hilda Del Castillo/Nelson Martinez
Suenos De Colores - Coralia Arregoitia
Juegeton - Merceditas Vales
Nana Animalera - Marisela Verena
Berceuse Campesina - Andres Alen
Lacho - Bola De Nieve
Oguere - Clave Y Guaguanco
La Calabacita - Coralia Arregoitia

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No fat cigar, not even Cuba's gorgeous sunsets, can register close on the sublimity scale to the country's lush, commercially unsullied music, something lots of folks discovered a few years back when a subtle loosening of regulatory strings let the brilliant, boundary-busting Buena Vista Social Club cross the shore. On Cuban Lullaby, another of Ellipsis Arts' impressively packaged, carefully annotated, and sweet-smelling Lullaby series (the scent of lavender, said to promote heavy-liddedness, comes wafting out once the protective plastic is removed), the tradition-steeped African and Spanish elements that fused the Cuban sound fall in for a 16-track close-up--intimacy, after all, is what lullabies are all about. The music moves from lilting piano ("Drume Negrita," "Berceuse a Jessie," "Drume Mobila") to elegant guitar (a different rendition of "Drume Negrita," "Suenos de Colores") to tribal-sounding bata drums ("Oguere"). The set is by turns sweepingly beautiful, twinkly sweet, and rhythmically soothing--no surprise, considering this record's artist roster. Grammy-winning pianist Chucho Valdes, immortal entertainer Bola de Nieve, and Buena Vista Social Club singer Omara Portuondo raise the talent bar to a dizzying level, the right altitude, it turns out, for drifting off to dreamland. If your little one is the lucky intended dozer, leave the light on and read the liner notes. The English translations of these songs, like "El Amor de Caracol y Lombriz," about a snail-worm romance, and "Nana Animalera," describing a late-night all-animal hootenanny, crack a window on Cuban culture, causing, without intending to, sharp regrets that it's been sealed away for so long. --Tammy La Gorce

Album Description

Cuban Lullaby

The irresistible music from the small island of Cuba has won the hearts of people around the world. This unique collection brings together world class Cuban artists to share a piece of their musical heritage rarely heard outside of Cuba. These lullabies have been passed among the grandmothers, aunts, great-aunts, mothers and daughters who all share in the raising of the their children.

These sweet songs will cradle your little ones and carry them into dreamland with beauty and love.

Features Omara Portuondo of the Buena Vista Social Club, Grammy winning artist Chucho Valdés, Bola de Nieve, Merceditas Valdés, Clave Y Guaguancó and other Cuban greats.

The notes include original lyrics and english translation.

Customer Reviews:

Enjoyable to listen to, but not for putting kids to sleep........2006-01-31