Jazz for aficionados

Frogman, this is from the movie, compare it to Voodoo around the world, including New Orleans to this on "You tube", and notice the similarities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js0CAjUXv58

Canonical story[edit]Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, a satyr saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a viper, dying instantly. Distraught, Orpheus played and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and deities wept and told him to travel to the Underworld to retrieve her, which he gladly did. After his music softened the hearts of Pluto and Persephone, his singing so sweet that even the Erinyes wept, he was allowed to take her back to the world of the living. In another version, Orpheus played his lyre to put Cerberus, the guardian of Hades, to sleep, after which Eurydice was allowed to return with Orpheus to the world of the living. Either way, the condition was attached that he must walk in front of her and not look back until both had reached the upper world. Soon he began to doubt that she was there, and that Hades had deceived him. Just as he reached the portals of Hades and daylight, he turned around to gaze on her face, and because Eurydice had not yet crossed the threshold, she vanished back into the Underworld. When Orpheus later was killed by the Maenads at the orders of Dionysus, his soul ended up in the Underworld where he was reunited with Eurydice.

Enjoy the music.

Frogman, I was in Haiti about 3 years after this movie was made, and Haiti was very much like the movie, "weird beyond belief". In regard to the voodoo music, it's like the air they breath; we were riding up a mountain trail on a half ass (that's a cross between a horse and a donkey) in "Cap Haitian", and on the side of the road, one kid was beating out this voodoo rhythm on a metal shovel that had been left by a road crew, while other kids were dancing to the music like their bodies had no bones. They did this to amuse themselves, it had nothing to do with tourism or anything else.

I only saw the movie many years after I had gone to Haiti, had I seen the movie first, I would not have gone to Haiti. Movies can come very close to reality.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOoFiCgcprU

O-10, fascinating account of your trip to Haiti. This is an interesting essay that addresses, and corroborates, some of your points:

http://www.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/21-2/45-54.pdf

Just a short break from the usual.

And the Winner is ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lmXi1y1fzs

Cheers

Well, it's pretty obvious to me; the winner is the live ensemble. First of all, the recording is slightly softer in volume so that will affect our perception. The recording sounds slightly muted in the highs, and has less rhythmic "verve". No brainier, even over an IPad.