RARE* 10INCH * MONOGRAM LABEL MICROGROOVE* ACTUAL CEREMONIAL VOODOO RECORDING

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FROM THE COLLECTION:  THIS IS A RARE 10" LP ON MONOGRAM RECORDS  N.Y. SUPERTONE MICROGROOVE LP. MLP 815.   TITLED: "VOODOO" DRUMS AND VOICES OF THE CARRIBEAN.   ACTUAL CEREMONIAL RECORDINGS.   LP IS VERY GOOD AND COVER GOOD  TOP SPLIT.   RECORDED BY LISA LEKIS PRODUCED BY MAUEL M. WARNER .   BROUGHT FROM THE DARK CONTINENT OF AFRICA, VOODOO IS A PART OF THE FASCINATING STAFF OF LIFE OF ALL THE WEST INDIES.  WHETHER IT IS CALLED "OBEAH", AS IN JAMAICA, OR "SHANGO AS IN TRINIDAD, THE MYSTERIOUS HYPNOTIC AND EVIL POWERS OF VOODOO HAVE BEEN THE INSPIRATION FOR MANY COUNTELSS TALES OF HORROR AND FANTASY.   BUT WHAT IS VOODOO?  IT CANNOT BE CALLED A RELIGION, FOR IT GOES BEYOND RELIGION.  IT IS NOT A SUPERSTITION, FOR IT EXCEEDS ALL NORMAL SUPERSTITIONS.  TO DEFINE IT EXACTLY IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, FOR IT IS MORE  A WAY OF LIFE AND A METHOD OF THINKING, THAN ANYTHING ELSE, IT IS A PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE OF ITS BELIEVERS, NOT TO BE EVIL, WHOSE SPIRITS MAY VISIT THE EARTH, AND MAY POSSESS THE SOULS OF LIVING BEINGS.  IT HAS ITS OWN PRIESTS  SUPERSTITIONS WHICH INFLUENCE THE LIVES OF ALL ITS FOLLOWERS.  THE MUSIC AND DANCE ASSOCIATED WITH VOODOO, AND ITS CEREMONIES, TRANSLATE THE BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS OF AFRICA INTO RHYTHMS OF THE WEST INDIES.  STRANGELY  ENOUGH, VOODOO AND CHRISTIANIY EXIST SIDE BY SIDE, THE PARTICIPANTS MANY TIMES, BEING BOTH CHRISTIANS AND VOODOOISTS, AND EVEN USE CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS  HOLIDAYS TO PERFORM, WHAT ARE ACTUALLY VOODOO CEREMONIES, AS IN THE CASE OF RA RA DANCES HELD ON GOOD FRIDAY IN HAITI,  OR AS IN THE CASE OF THE SHOUTERES OF TRINIDAD, OR SOME OF THE "OBEAH" CULTS OF JAMAICA, WHO BEGIN THEIR CEREMONIES BY SINGING CHRISTIAN HUMNS.  IT IS RATHER  DIFFICULT TO SAY WHERE CHRISTIANITY LEVES OFF AND VOODOO BEGINS.    BUT WHATEVER VOODOO MAY BE, GOOD OR EVIL, IT IS A PART OF THE BELIEF  AND LIFE OF MANY WEST INDIANS, WHOE SLAVE ANCESTORS NEVER ABANDONES MUCH OF AFRICA BROUGHT WITH THEM TO THE NEW WORLD.     SELECTIONS:  AIE BOBO (MAHI) * GRAN MASSO (BANDA) *  VOODOO DRUMS (TI RORO) * DAMBALLAH (HAITIAN FOLKLORE)*  YANVALLOU*  * SHANGO *  NANINGO *  BELEN.   YOU CAN READ MORE ON THE BACK OF THE COVER THAT I SCANNED.   FREE SHIPPING WITH PURCHASE.   THANKS ALOT!