Putumayo Kids Presents: Animal Playground
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CD Details
Edition: Music CDFormat: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Music Label: Putumayo World Music
Soundtracks:
- Animal Crackers - Wee Hairy Beasties
- No More Monkeys - Asheba
- Nella Vecchia Fattoria - Quartetto Cetra
- Aves - Guillermo Anderson
- The Littlest Birds - The Be Good Tanyas
- The Three Bears - Gary Rosen
- Cantiga do Sapo - Ze Renato
- L'Otorhinoceros - Les P'tits Loups du Jazz
- Bigi Kaiman - Samba Salad
- Don't Ever Step on a Snake - Don Spencer
- Eagles - Terri Hendrix
- If a Dinosaur Was My Friend - Phil Melancon
- Mbube - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Music reviews of Putumayo Kids Presents: Animal Playground
Music Review: Putamayo Kids Top Three!
Rating: 5 Stars
We own just about all of the Putamayo Kids Presents CDs. Both of my daughters love this CD. Its easy on the ears for adults too! My oldest always has to listen to the "Lion song" when we play Putamayo Kids Presents Animals! Highly recommend this CD if you have never owned a Putamayo CD before.
Description of Putumayo Kids Presents: Animal Playground
Since children of all nationalities are fascinated by animals, Putumayo found it only natural to create a collection of exceptional songs featuring animal themes and folklore from across the globe. The 13 tracks on the album will guide listeners on a journey that begins in North America and ends in Africa without skipping a beat in between. Music fans of all ages will want to jump, hop and sing along to the playful, upbeat melodies of Animal Playground.The collection includes a track from up-and-coming North American kids artists The Wee Hairy Beasties, whose bluegrassy "Animal Crackers" features Jon Langford of the Mekons. Texas singer-songwriter Terri Hendrix offers "Eagles," a sweet song from a mother eagle to her baby with a little southern twang. Crossing the globe, Netherlands based Samba Salad presents a song about a Surinam crocodile called "Bigi Kaiman." From Italy, Quartetto Cetra delivers a fast-paced version of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," though here it's "Nella Vecchia Fattoria." Z?? Renato of Brazil leads a call-and- response sing-along that will get kids dancing to the forr?? tune "Cantiga do Sapo," about a little singing frog. And Australian children's music legend Don Spencer contributes an amusing song about using caution when walking near snakes.
Also featured is the video for Asheba's irresistible Caribbean arrangement of the popular "No More Monkeys!" song. Shot on the beaches of Trinidad, the video creates a magical land where Putumayo Kids' characters come to life and interact with Asheba and his band of Trinidadian kids as they sing and dance to the playful song.
A portion of Putumayo World Music's proceeds from the sale of this album will be donated to the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered at the world famous Bronx Zoo, in support of its activities that save wildlife and wild lands.
Putumayo's Playground series consistently lives up to its name by sending far-flung cultures out to recess, freeing them to reveal their musical fun sides. The metaphor ends there, but the parallel to actual playgrounds doesn't: as any parent who's felt forlorn at times knows, nothing nullifies a dreary afternoon funk more effectively than a trip to the neighborhood playground. So it goes with the series. Animal Playground, the latest to swing, slide, and see-saw its way into agile imaginations of all ages, is a fine-tuned creature feature as playful as a giant-pawed puppy. Even if you don't know what forro is (North Brazilian dance music), or that "Cantigo do Sapo" has something to do with a little singing frog, you'll want to shake a tail feather in time to the beat; that holds for Quartetto Cetra's right-on Italian reworking of "Old McDonald," "Nella Vecchia Farroria." No disrespect to the other exotic offerings here ("Aves," from Honduras, for example), but the English-language songs are most winning of all: Canada's the Be Good Tanyas captivate with "The Littlest Birds," and you can't help but a love a man who cries crocodile tears from his puppy dog eyes, in this case Jon Langford who, when he's not a Wee Hairy Beastie belting out "Animal Crackers," leads the excellent punk/folk band the Mekons. --Tammy La Gorce
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