Music of Para, Brazil Carimbo, Pajelanca, Batuque & Umbanda (1982)

• Conjunto Tapayoara, led by Santana Miranda – Carimbo

• 1. Conjunto Tapayoara, led by Santana Miranda – Carimbo
• 2. Joao Cego – Pajelanca Song
• 3. Batuque Song
• 4. Ze Maria – Batuque Song for Ogum General
• 5. Umbanda Song for Ogum a
• 6. Ele Atriou, Mas Ninguem Viu
• 7. Umbanda Musicians at Santo Antonio de Angola – Ogum e pai de todo, rei do gonga
• 8. Ogum e pai de todo, rei do gonga
• 9. Cabocolo Nao Tinha Caminho para Caminhar
• 10. Umbanda Musicians at Cabocla Yacira – Lembrai, O Lembrai
• 11. Umbandistas at a festival – Song for Lemanja
• 12. Umbandistas at a festival – Umbanda Potos at the Lemanja Festival

Recorded in Northern Brazil, this includes cult music (Umbanda), folk music and roots music (Batuque).

The state of Pará is located in the north of Brazil, and is part of the vast geographical and culture area known as Amazonia. The Portuguese colonizers never established in Pará the plantations or mining operations that required the huge labour force eventually supplied by captive Africans and the slave system. These were located mostly in the northeast and south of the country. At first, Indian slaves were used in the extractive enterprises in the Pará forests, with African labour brought as early as 1682 (Anaiza Vergolino e Silva, “Alguns Elementos para o Estudo do Negro na Amazonia, 1968, p.6) African slaves worked in domestic service in the capital, Belém of Pará...”
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