Mexico: Fiestas of Chiapas & Oaxaca (Nonesuch, 1991)

Genre: World wma, 192 kb/s (Nonesuch, 1991) 1 Lol Gomez - Son Sventa N'Ahual San Lorenzo [Song for Our Lord San Lorenzo] 2:31 2 Marimba Conjunto Espija de Oro - El Chinito 2:28 3 Juan Hernandez Lopez - Bts'i Son Martomail [True Song for the Churchkeeper] 1:46 4 Marimba Conjunto Espija de Oro - La Jota 2:40 5 Pedro Ruiz - Son Sventa Ch'ul Na [Song for Church] 2:19 6 Marimba Conjunto Espija de Oro - Valse Chiapanecas 3:14 7 Carmen Gomez Oso - K'in Sventa Ch'ul Me'tik Kwadulupe [Festival for the Holy Mother Guad] 3:33 8 Lol Gomez - Son Sventa Cajvaltic [Song for Our Lord] 2:07 9 Various Artists - Christmas in Oaxaca 5:15 10 Martin Santiago - Nuoco 3:12 11 Conjuto, Ramirez, Victoriano - Son Alefre [Happy Tune] 2:50 12 David Jimenez Lopez - Carreta de Flores [The Flower Cart] 2:14 13 Ismael Gonzalez - Cantares de Mi Tierra [I Sing of My Country] 3:37 14 Ildefonso Burgoa; Jose Villasano; Marciano Solis - Danza de la Malincha 2:16 Part of David Lewiston's uber-extensive Explorer series on Nonesuch in the '70s, this album is a re-release on CD of the original installation for Mexico. The music featured herein hails from two locations, both in southern Mexico. The music from Oaxaca is generally a bit more diverse, but both musics draw heavily upon multiple factors: Spanish-introduced instrumentation, Mayan performance styles, imported African instrumentation, a multitude of languages, etc. As it stands on this album, the marimba figures heavily in the scene, with the Mexicans making use of their own innovation in marimbas: making them large enough to allow three or four players simultaneous access. The harp is also featured prominently. Much of the music was recorded during the festival of Guadalupe, as well as some from around Christmas (not that long afterwards). The nice thing about Lewiston's recordings is that he generally attempted to capture as many forms of music as possible to include all on the compilation. Here, the listener gets secular entertainment music, ritual music, and a couple forms in between those two. For a nice, if outdated, look into Mexican music (and more specifically, Mexican tribal music/Mexican rural music), take a look into this album. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Awef6zfd2eh7k

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