Putumayo Presents - Music from the Chocolate Lands
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Artist: Putumayo PresentsEdition: Music CD
Audio: Multilingual (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2004-11-09
Music Label: Putumayo World Music
Product features:
- VARIOS INTERPRETES MUSIC FROM THE CHOCOLATE LANDS
- Lisanga - Lokua, Toto Bona
- Sarasa (India) - Susheela Raman
- Sabia - Marcantonio
- Rasanble (Haiti) - Beethova Obas
- Aqui No Sera (Mexico/USA) - Ozomatli
- Paleto (Belgium/Brazil) - Think Of One
- Kakou - Dobet Gnahore
- Yay Balma - Taffetas
- Tihore Mai Te Rangi (Hawaii) - Teresa Bright
- Baba - Andy Palacio, Adrian Martinez
- Valentin (Peru) - Susana Baca
- Chocolate Sabroso - Chocolate Armenteros
Music reviews of Music from the Chocolate Lands
Music Review: Can't "just say no"
Rating: 3 Stars
Putumayo is almost a menace, creating compilations that are easy for Americans to indulge in because the selections are always as light an airy as a cream puff. But my interest is in sounds that are different from what I know, and with Putumayo's cds, I never feel like I'm truly learning what music from a particular region has to offer. Still, I find it hard to pass up their compilations, because, all in all, they are pretty nice. There's usually at least one song that makes the watered-downness of the whole venture worthwhile, and this one is no exception. PopMatters put it this way: "For the last 10 years, Putumayo has been marketing world music as easy listening. Bright, flat, cartoony album covers and cutesy compilation concepts ... provide a hint at the sheer softness of a typical Putumayo world music CD. There's percussion in Putumayo's world, of course, but true rhythmic intensity is rare and dissonance completely extinct. Imagine an Africa that never heard of the electric guitar and you're probably not far off the mark. Music From the Chocolate Lands, then, is a typical Putumayo world music CD. World music as easy listening: it's just a terrible idea in the first place, right? Well, right -- but beauty counts for a lot in easy listening, and Chocolate Lands is gorgeous." And to the reviewer's point below--yes, what happened to Ecuador?
Description of Music from the Chocolate Lands
Music from the Chocolate Lands offers a rich selection of songs from the world?s chocolate producing countries. Chocolate has been enjoyed for thousands of years. Used for medicinal and religious purposes, as well as for pleasure, traces of this "food of the gods" have been found in early Mayan pots dating back to 600 B.C.E. Europeans added sugar to the exotic concoction, and the chocolate craze gradually spread throughout the world. Now the cacao plant, which provides the raw cocoa beans for chocolate, is farmed in tropical locations around the globe, often far away from its Central and South American origins.Music from the Chocolate Lands features a selection of songs as distinctive as chocolate?s history. This release includes music from the tropical countries that grow cocoa beans as well as collaborations with musicians from the European regions where chocolate-makers produce some of the world?s most appetizing chocolate products. Africa, the world?s leading producer of cocoa beans, is represented by Dobet Gnahoré from the Ivory Coast and Toto Bona Lokua, a trio featuring artists from Congo, Cameroon and the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Also from the Caribbean are Haiti?s Beethova Obas, with "Rasanblé," and the masterful Cuban trumpet player Chocolate Armenteros, whose song "Chocolate Sabroso" (Tasty Chocolate) is a perfect fit. Adrian Martínez and Andy Palacio, from the Central American country of Belize, provide a previously unreleased track. The collection also features songs by Ozomatli (USA/Mexico), Susana Baca (Peru), Marcantonio (Brazil), Susheela Raman (India) and Teresa Bright (Hawaii). The Belgian group Think of One teams up with Brazilian musicians to create a track that unites two important chocolate producing countries. Taffetas provides another truly unique collaboration, bringing together musicians from the West African country of Guinea Bissau and Switzerland, the land where milk chocolate was invented.
Whether savored as a drink or devoured in solid form, chocolate is an abiding passion with many people, lifting their moods even as it expands their waistlines. The chances are that this album was born of a can't-miss marketing conceit but the musical choices make for a very tasty if surprisingly low-key listen. The tunes are uniformly acoustic and mellow, with just enough of a percussive swing to keep things from getting too static. Teresa Bright's harmonies sometimes recall a Hawaiian-style Andrews Sisters impression and Marcantonio's North-Eastern-flavored Brazilian track is fluid and lovely. But when Beethova Obas warns his embattled Haitian countrymen about the dangers of selfishness, it's obvious that he isn't talking about anything so trivial as sharing a candy bar. In fact, given the nationalities involved, the material is generally less topical than might be expected. However, the music often reflects the replete euphoria of cocoa-fuelled sugar shock. --Christina Roden
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