Latin American Music Recordings

General

Africa en America : música de 19 países = Africa in America : music from 19 countries. CD 04450
Amor prohibido / Selena. CD 05952
Dreaming of you / Selena. CD 05953
Exchange: music at the crossroads: Latin America. CD 8976
Guitar classics from Latin America / Marcelo Kayath. CD 01337
Kalinda Kaliente! / Ensemble Kalinda. CD 06813
Lateinamerikanische Gitarrenmusik = Latin-American guitar music. / Eliot Fisk. CD 01170
Latin american music for two guitars / Sergio and Odair Assad. CD 00517
Mondo mambo! / Perez Prado. CD 05738
Reunion / Paquito d'Rivera. CD 05828
La salsa des Machucambos. C 1333
New York City ache! / Bobby Sanabria & Ascension. CD 00316
Nu Yorica Roots! CD 10710
Salsa fresca! CD 05699
Siembra / Willie Colon and Ruben Blades. CD 08424
Skin on skin : the Mongo Santamarâia anthology (1958-1995).
CD 10584

Caribbean

Ah feel to party : best of Straker's. CD 05819
Calypso at midnight. CD 8992
Calypso after midnight. CD 8959
Calypso season. CD 05841
Caribbean Voyage. CD 7876
Kalinda Kaliente! / Ensemble Kalinda . CD 06813
Pan classic ballads / Boogsie Sharp. CD 06935
Rara in Haiti : Gagá in the Dominican Republic. LP 10752
The spirit cries. CD 04921
Steel band music of the Caribbean. CD 06816
Tombstone feast : funerary music of Carriacou. CD 10360

Alphabetical by Country (Caribbean)

Bahamas

Bahaman songs, French ballads and dance tunes, Spanish religious songs and game songs. LP 5814
Deep river of song : Bahamas 1935 : Chanteys and anthems from Andros and Cat Island. CD 7885
Kneelin' down inside the gate: the great rhyming singers of the Bahamas. CD 05728
Music of the Bahamas. LP 2994 v.1
The Real Bahamas in Music and Song. CD 10848 v.1-2

Carriacou

Carriacou calaloo. CD 7981
Saraca: Funerary music of Carriacou. CD 8991

Cayman Islands

Under the coconut tree. C 1311

Cuba

Afro-Cuba : a musical anthology. CD 01919
Ahi Nama, vol. 1. CD 07645
Animo gente mia. CD 07644
Antologia de la musica Cubana volumen XI / Compay Segundo : Son del monte. CD 08361
Azucar / Juan Formell and Los Van Van. CD 05806
Babalu / Desi Arnaz and his orchestra. CD 01886
The best / Celia Cruz. CD 05808
Buena Vista Social Club. CD 08340
The Buena Vista Social Club presents Ibrahim Ferrer. CD 08373.
The Buena Vista Social Club presents Omara Portunodo. CD 08374.
El camino de la salsa / Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas, Conjunto Campesino Cuyaguateje, Septeto Nacional, Orquesta Sublime, Sexteto Ricoson, Septeto Raison. CD 06926
Cantus in Honore Beatae Mariae Virginis / Esteban Salas. CD 10668
Caravana Cubana. CD 08334.
A carnival of Cuban music. CD 05864
Cuban and Puerto Rican music. C 1342
The Cuban danzon : Before there was jazz. CD 7916
Cuba : I am time. CD 07577
Cuban and Puerto Rican music. C 1342
Cuban counterpoint. CD 01078
Cuban counterpoint : history of the son montuno. CD 05686
Deseos / Arte Mixto. CD 07640
Jesus Alemany's Cubanismo! CD 06471
The music of Santeria : the oru del igbodu. / John Amira. CD 04907
Muy Divertido! / Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos. CD 08345
New Conceptions / Chucho Valdés. CD 10867
Ocaso otono / Ad Libitum. CD 07643
Orquesta Cuba : contradanzas and danzones. CD 08370
Out of Sight! / Poncho Sanchez. CD 10865
Para bailar mi song / Rolo Martinez. CD 07646
Respeta mi tambo / Los Naranjos. CD 0764
Ritmo Caliente / Eddie Palmieri. CD 10645
Rumba. CD 06469
Sacred rhythms of Cuban santeria. CD 05821
Sonando! / Maraca. CD 07639
Sones y montunos / Fruko & Orquesta. CD 06940
Spirit rhythms / Orlando "Puntilla" Rios & Nueva Generacion. CD 06470
Sublime Ilusion / Eliades Ochoa. CD 08388
Toda Cuba le gusta / Afro Cuban All Stars. CD 08188
Top percussion / Tito Puente. CD 05796
3 de la habana. CD 07641
Una forma mas / Vocal Sampling. CD 05770
Virginia / Arte Mixto. CD 07642
Yo no hace falta / Bamboleo. CD 07648

Dominican Republic

Caribbean island music; songs and dances of Haiti, the Dominican Republic & Jamaica. LP 3080
Caribbean revels : Haitian rara and Dominican gaga. CD 06252
Cradle of the new world. LP 3842
Dominica : creole crossroads. CD 7977
Music from the Dominican Republic. LP 2806 v.1
Rara in Haiti : Gagá in the Dominican Republic. LP 10752

Grenada

Grenada : Creole and Yoruba voices. CD 10403

Haiti

Caribbean island music; songs and dances of Haiti, the Dominican Republic & Jamaica. LP 3080
Caribbean revels : Haitian rara and Dominican gaga. CD 06252
Creole songs of Haiti. LP 3000
The drums of Vodou. CD 04908
Haiti cheri. CD 06930
Haitian folk songs. LP 2996
jou a rive / Boukan Ginen. CD 05763
Liberte (Pran pour pran'l!) = Freedom (Let's take it!) / Boukman Eksperyans. CD 05797
Mâeringue: Haèitâi châerie. CD 06477
Music of Haiti . LP 3032 v.1
Rara in Haiti : Gagá in the Dominican Republic. LP 10752
Rhythms of rapture : sacred music of Haitian vodou. CD 05758
Vo dou beat / Simbi. CD 05813
Vodun-Rada rite for Erzulie. LP 3506
Vodou adjae / Boukman Exsperyans. CD 05778
Voudou nou / Rara Machine. CD 05839

Jamaica

Bongo, backra & coolie : Jamaican roots. LP 2809 v.1
Brown Sugar / Dennis Brown. CD 06376
Burnin' / The Wailers. CD 06370
Caribbean island music; songs and dances of Haiti, the Dominican Republic & Jamaica. LP 3080
Catch a fire / Bob Marley and the Wailers. CD 06368
Churchical chants of the Nyabingi. CD 06476
Conscious party / Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. CD 06275
Drums of defiance : maroon music from the earliest free black communities of Jamaica. CD 05842
Equal rights / Peter Tosh. CD 06266
Forward ever, backwards never / Roots Radics Band. CD 07324
The Harder they Come / Jimmy Cliff. CD 10791
Hot, we hot / Roots Radics Band. CD 07323
On the rock / Israel vibration. CD 07349
Jamaican cult music. LP 2800
Legend / Bob Marley and the Wailers. CD 06369
Liberation / Black Uhuru. CD 06377
Make way for the Indian / Apache Indian CD 06401
Music addict / U Roy. CD 07327
Natty dread / Bob Marley & the Wailers. CD 06362
Night nurse / Gregory Isaacs. CD 06380
100th anniversary / Burning Spear. CD 06375
Pan soca vibration / Earl Brooks. CD 06936
Red / Black Uhuru. CD 06629
Reggae ambassadors : 20th anniversary collection. CD 06288
Reggae greats / Lee Perry. CD 06353
Reggae greats / Steel Pulse. CD 06365
Reggae street / Mighty Diamonds. CD 06285
Roots of reggae : music from Jamaica. C 1352
Ska voovee / Skatalites. CD 06631
Sly, Robbie, Gitsy & the Taxi Gang presents the sounds of La trenggae. CD 10599
Studio One soul. CD 10457
Super ape / Upsetters. CD 07325
This is reggae music vols. 4-5. CD 06360 v.4-5
Trenchtown rock: the anthology 1969-78 / Bob Marley and the Wailers. CD 09941
Two sevens clash / Culture. CD 06628
Who feels it knows it / Rita Marley. CD 06918
Why you so craven / Israel Vibration. CD 07326
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng / Yellowman. CD 06630

Puerto Rico

Caliente = hot; Puerto Rican and Cuban musical expression in New York. LP 2646
Compositores Puertorriqueños. v. 1-2 / Hutchinson, Henry. LP 18276
Cuban and Puerto Rican music. C 1342
Folk music of Puerto Rico. LP 11118
The musical heritage of Puerto Rico. LP 968
Somos boricuas : we are Puerto Rican / Los Pleneros de la 21. CD 07032

St. Lucia

Musical traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies : dances and songs from a Caribbean island. CD 06434

Trinidad

All the girls / Mighty Sparrow. CD 09232
Caribbean Voyage: Trinidad. CD 08649
No restriction / David Rudder. CD 09230
Pan night and day / Our Boys Steel Orchestra. CD 05843
Panorama 2001. CD 09250
Roosevelt in Trinidad : Calypsoes of events, places, and personalities 1933-39. CD 07869
Roots, rock, soca / Black Stalin. CD 05835
Shango, shouter and obeah : supernatural calypso from Trinidad 1934-1940. CD9615
Voices 'n steel / Marionettes chorale and the Neal and Massy Trinidad all stars steel orchestra. CD 09231

Virgin Islands

Under the coconut tree. C 1311

West Indies

Brown girl in the ring. CD 7967
Caribbean folk music. LP 1773
Carriacou calaloo. CD 7981
Dominica : creole crossroads. CD 7977
East Indian music in the West Indies. CD7975
Majestik zouk / Kassav'. CD05812
West Indies : an island carnival. CD 05498
Roots of Black music in America. LP 819

Central America

Anthology of the music of Central and South American Indians. LP 3927
Caribbean folk music. LP 1773
Rough guide to central america. CD 09953
The spirit cries. CD 04921

Alphabetical by Country (Central America)

Honduras

The Black Caribs of Honduras. LP 3034
Songs and dances of Honduras. LP 2999

Mexico

Antología del son en México. LP 11325
Caribbean folk music. LP 1773
El Charro Avitia. CD 08901
Conjunto! : Texas-Mexican border music. CD 05836
Folk music of Mexico. LP 11111
Indian music of Mexico. LP 1777
Mariachis and Marimba. CD 08898
Mariachis varios: Mexico tipico. CD 08899
Mexico's biggest and wildest Mariachi band. CD 08900
Mexico; fiestas of Chiapas and Oaxaca. LP 2986
Mexico: 100 years of piano music. CD 05848
Music of Mexico / José Pablo Moncayo. LP 5707
Music of Veracruz: the sones jarochos of Los Pregoneros del Puerto. CD 6475
The Real Mexico in music and song. LP 1854
Sones de Jalisco / Mariachi Reyes del Aserradero. CD 06480
Songs of Mexico. I / Carlos Hernandez Chabez [sic] and Los Trovadores. CD 06464
Songs of Mexico. II / Oscar Moreno Tapia and los Mecateros. CD 06465

Panama

Street music of Panama. CD 03218

South America

Africa en America : música de 19 países = Africa in America : music from 19 countries. / Llerenas, Eduardo. CD 04450
Anthology of the music of Central and South American Indians. LP 3927
In praise of Oxalá and other gods; black music of South America. / Lewiston, David. LP 5400
The spirit cries. CD 04921
Voces unidas. CD 05701

Andes

Mountain music of Peru. vol. 1. CD 03219
Musiques des Andes = Music of the Andes : Pak'cha / [performed by] Bolivia Manta. CD 00931 [QUECHUA]
Peru and Bolivia: the sounds of evolving traditions : Central Andean music and festivals. CD 6472
Winayataqui. CD 00935

Native South Americans

Anthology of Brazilian Indian music. LP 1778 [BRAZIL]
Anthology of the music of Central and South American Indians. LP 3927
Brésil; musiques du Haut Xingu. LP 3734 [BRAZIL]
Indian music of the Upper Amazon. LP 1780 [AMAZON]
Music from Mato Grosso. LP 1779 [BRAZIL]
The spirit cries. CD 04921
Why Suyá sing : a musical anthropology of an Amazonian people / Anthony Seeger. ML3575.B7 S36 1987 cassette [BRAZIL]
Winayataqui = Ce qui se perpétue / [interpréte par] Bolivia Manta. CD 00935 [ANDES]

Alphabetical By Country (South America)

Argentina

El arte de la quena. LP 4363
Tango Argentino / Trio Hugo Diaz. CD 06941

Bolivia

El arte de la quena. LP 4363
Atahuallpa : Andean music from Bolivia / Rumillajta. CD 06923
Clear water / Ch'uaw Yacu Bolivia. CD 8165
La doctrina de las ciclos : The doctrine of cycles / Arawi. CD 07228
Music from Bolivia / Pukaj Wayra. CD 06463
Musiques des Andes. CD 00931
Peru and Bolivia: the sounds of evolving traditions : Central Andean music and festivals. CD 06472
Savia Andina. LP 9858
Ukamau : folklore de Bolivia. CD7755

Brazil

A arte de Elis Regina. CD 07008
A arte de Milton Nascimento. CD 07010
Afro Brazil. CD 07017
Amazonia: festival and cult music of Northern Brazil. CD 06462
Amoroso : [with] Brasil / Joao Gilberto. CD 07013
Aquarela do Brasil / Gal Costa. CD 07014
Ara Ketu bom demais / Ara Ketu. CD 06922
Axe Brazil. CD 07016
Beleza tropical / compiled by David Byrne. CD 07003
The best of Rio Carnaval : samba enredo & batucada. CD 07002
Brasil, a century of song. CD 05589
Brasileiro. CD 9198
Brazil, roots, samba. CD 03907
Brésil; musiques du Haut Xingu. LP 3734 [NATIVE INDIAN]
Caetano / Caetano Veloso. CD 07006
Capoeira Angola from Salvador, Brazil / produced by Mestre Cobra Mansa and Heidi Rauch in collaboration with the Organization of American States and the Grupo de Capoeira Angola Pelourinho. CD 06461
Danças Brasileiras. LP 12214
Elis & Tom / Elis Regina, [all songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim]. CD 07012
Fascinacao : Fascination / Elis Regina. CD 07007
Forrâo, etc.: music of the Brazilian northeast / compiled by David Byrne. CD 07015
Gal tropical / Gal Costa. CD 07020
In praise of Oxalá and other gods; black music of South America. LP 5400
Kaya n'gan daya / Gilberto Gil. CD 10527
Miltons / Milton Nascimento. CD 07011
North and South / Luciana Souza. CD 10641
O samba. CD 05497
Parabolic. CD 03697
Songs and dances of Brazil. LP 3005
This is samba, vol.1,2. CD 09992 v.1,2
Timbalada / Timbalada. CD 05846
Tropicalia 2 / Caetano e Gil. CD 07005
Txai / Milton Nascimento. CD 07009
Yele Brazil. CD 05768
Xangai. CD 07004

Colombia

Afro-hispanic music from western Colombia and Ecuador. LP 1787
Colombie / El Sexteto Tabala. CD 06857
Cumbia cumbia: a selection of Colombia cumbia recordings. CD 05810
Cumbia cumbia 2 : l'epoca dorada de cumbias Colombianas. CD 05787
Cumbias con acordeon. Vol. 1 : desde Columbia. CD 06920
In praise of Oxalá and other gods; black music of South America. LP 5400

Ecuador

Afro-hispanic music from western Colombia and Ecuador. LP 1787
In praise of Oxalá and other gods; black music of South America. LP 5400
Musiques des Andes. CD 00931

Paraguay

Diego Blanco. LP 9189
Los Chiriguanos of Paraguay. LP 5339
Magic of the Paraguayan harp and Indian flutes / Pablo Carcamo and Oscar Benito. CD7754
Virtuoso del arpo paraguaya. LP 10962

Peru

El arte de la quena. LP 4363
Fiestas of Peru; music of the high Andes. LP 5415
Kingdom of the sun; Peru's Inca heritage. LP 89
Mountain music of Peru. vol. 1. CD 03219 [AYMARA INDIANS]
Musiques des Andes. CD 00931
Peru and Bolivia: the sounds of evolving traditions : Central Andean music and festivals. CD 06472
The soul of black Peru. CD 05930

Venezuela

Folk music of Venezuela. LP 11116

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