Bill Evans sideman con Dick Garcia, Tony Scott, Gene Quill, Eddie Costa, Joe Puma, Paul Motian, Oscar Pettiford, Jimmy Knepper.
Acclamato gruppo folk acappella ( sole voci ), Sweet Honey in The Rock mettono fuori un nuovo disco in cui vengono fusi elementi folk, ma anche gospel e blues. Le toccanti armonie vocali delle quattro cantanti danno una nuova linfa a brani tradizionali, ma anche cover e pezzi originali.
Compilation prodotta da David Byrne. Include brani di Jorge Ben, Maria Bethania e Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento e tanti altri.
Digipack, Atlantic 1999. Include booklet di 20 pagine.
Tracks 1-20: Aragón style = Jota
Original field recordings made in the mountains of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 1954.
Songs of farming, ballads of partisan struggle in World War 2, dance music,New Year's songs, May rituals, recorded just before industrialisation forever changed the fabric of Northern Italian rural life.
With 40-page booklet.
2, 4, 6 to 10, 13 to 21, 23, 25 to 29, 31: Previously unreleased.
11, 22: Previously unreleased in part.
Remastered to 24-bit digital from the original field recordings.
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