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Música de Palos

Palos is considered the true Dominican Rural roots/Pop religious type music and an extremely important genre. This type of music may eventually disappear, or just be heard on a few recordings as the cultural practices that support this type of music die out too. We want to keep up all the old traditions in Dominican Republic so as we find information on this old type of music we will post it.
Thanks  Macocael for the help!

Palos (tree in colloquial Spanish) music, also known as Atabales (from the Arabic tabl),  Bambula and Quiyombo.  The music is mainly drum music made with drums made of hollowed-out logs. These drums normally have a single cowhide head (there are variations in which both openings are covered with hide). The groups normally consist of two to three drummers with optional accompaniment. If they are accompanied it is by the metal  cylindrical scrapers known as güiras, maracas, or a stick beaten on the outside of the drum. The largest and deepest of these drums is called palo mayor or the master drum. The lead drum is many times accompanied by two smaller drums called alcahuetes which interpreted means pimps.


more info at:  Miguel Fenton, Afro-Dominican Music

Grupo Sabor, located in Vermont, plays traditional music along with merengue and salsa. Thanks Alejandro Torrens for the info.!

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El Maestro Catarey
These drums are played for saints’ festivals or cofradías, for more personal vow type festivals and for the dead. Each type of festival commands a different type of rhythm. These rhythms are mainly distinguished by the words of the song. Really it is not a song as we know it but more like a call and response type of improvisational style of song with the lead singer changing spontaneously. The caller refers much to death and dead ancestors.

Drum dance or baile de palos, is a couple dance that symbolizes ritual pursuit. The dance has a balancing step that is alternated with a circular step. First going in one direction then changing to the other direction. It is said during the death ritual dances that the spirit of the dead person will enter an heir and dance.

Baile (dance) de palos, is a couple dance that symbolizes ritual pursuit. The dance has a balancing step that is alternated with a circular step. First going in one direction then changing to the other direction. It is said during the death ritual dances that the spirit of the dead person will enter an heir and dance.
used by permission torrens and fenton
Religious music that is usually heard at ceremonies of private brotherhoods. It was performed by singers who carry on old family traditions. There were Palos, summoning African deities cloaked as Christian saints, from Claudio Fortunato y sus Guedeses, and salves, fervent call-and-response songs, performed by Dona Chicha with nine other singers and three percussionists. Dona Chicha had an extraordinary voice that harked back to West Africa: strong and cutting, with improvisational phrasing that grew ever more elaborate. The impassioned quaver of her sustained high notes
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Recorded by Verna Gillis and Ramón Daniel Pérez Martínez.
“Lying mid-way between Puerto Rico and Cuba in the West Indies is the Dominican Republic, which occupies the eastern two-thirds of an island, the other of which is Haiti. The aboriginal name of the island was Quisqueya, which means ‘mother of the earth.’ When Columbus discovered the island in 1942 he renamed it ‘Española.’ In Santo Domingo, founded in 1496, one still sees the remains of the first church built in America. Here is the house where Cortés kept the court records before he had even heard of Mexico. From here Ponce de León set out in search of the Fountain of Youth…”

TRACK/PERFORMERS
A Novena / Drummers, singers from Samana
O Reina / Herold Enriques, Pablo Jiron and Saturino Enriques
Instrumental, with Vocal / Isabel Jimenes
A Novena / People from the community at the home of Mr. Amable
Merengues: "Apagame La Vela" / Nicole Guitierres, Porfifio Rosario, and Santo Peña
Merengues: Merengues / Seseco Martinez, Bicolo Avilia, Goyo Caminero
Merengues: "Cuando Yo Vine del Cibao" (When I Arrived from Cibao) / Tomás Aquino de León, Maria Isabel                Trinidad, Licinio Modesto
Merengues: "Julio Ven" (Julio Is Coming) / Erasmo Errera, Julio, Virgilio Errera
Merengues: "Las Mujeres Son el Consuelo de los Hombres" (Women Are Men's Confort) / Nicole Guitierres,                Porfifio Rosario, and Santo Peña
Merengues: Merengues / Seseco Martinez, Bicolo Avilia, Goyo Caminero
These are custom made albums with some lost music from Dominican Republic. If you would like to listen to samples of the songs click on the album cover/picture and it will take you to that recording. Also if you are interested in purchasing the albums just click on the cover art and it will take you to that album on the Earth CD web site. Tell Larry we here at Colonial Zone-DR sent you! Also available are DVD's (including the one above) or various music and events that are very interesting
MUSIC FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC VOLUME 2:The Island of Espanola
MUSIC FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC    Volume 1: The Island of Quisqueya
The aboriginal name of the Dominican Republic was Quisqueya, which means ‘mother of the earth. When Columbus discovered the island in 1492 he re-named it 'Espanola'.

Work songs, feast celebrations, popular music, and religious music including Palos are documented here.

Track /Artist,Performer
Los Chuines / Ernesto Marine, Ventura, Santiago Guerrero, Armando Perez
Sarandunga / Amancia Perez, Carlos Enriques, Raphael Peguero, Carlos Peguero, Manuel Ventura
Morena Linda (Beautiful Black Woman) / Tomás Aquino de León, Maria Isabel Trinidad
Caminan las Nubes (The Clouds Are Moving) / Tomás Aquino de León, Maria Isabel Trinidad
Instrumenta / Tomás Aquino de León, Maria Isabel Trinidad
Guay, Guay, Guay / Elvíra Diaz, Pablo Jiron, Bederminio Enriques, Mildred Alberto, Saturninio Enriques
Tobaco, El Tonada / Elvíra Diaz, Pablo Jiron, Bederminio Enriques, Mildred Alberto, Saturninio Enriques
Tonada / Elvíra Diaz, Pablo Jiron, Bederminio Enriques, Mildred Alberto, Saturninio Enriques
Salves / Elvira Diaz, Pablo Jiron, Bederminio Enriques, Saturinio Enriques, Mildred Alberto
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MUSIC FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  VOLUME 3 The Cradle of the New World
Diverse collection with a range from children's songs to heavy spiritual ritual music. Lot's of good African influenced drumming/dance called 'calenda' that was always associated with religious festivities. It was prohibited in the 18th century and was forced to become syncretized. We also can hear a 10 minute track of a very bizarre British tradition called 'Mummies'.

Recorded by Verna Gillis and Ramón Daniel Pérez Martínez.

Track /Artist,Performer
Mummies / Theophilus Chiverton, Gerald George, Alfredo Paris, Manuel Arab, Jesus Manuel Román, Agripino Hernan
Congos del Espirito Santo, Los / Camino Reale (The Real Path) (medley) / Bienvenida Vargas Depozo, Victoriano Fortunato Vargas, Vincente Vargas, Albertino "Moreno" Graciano,
Congos, Los "Ensilla Mi Caballo" (Saddle My Horse) / Bienvenida Vargas Depozo, Victoriano Fortunato Vargas, Albertino "Moreno" Gradiano, Donatilia Vargas
Congos, Los "Lambe los Deos Manteca" (Lick Your Finger, Manteca) / Victoriano Fortunato Vargas, Vicente Vargas, Bienvenida Vargas Depozo, Donatilia Vargas
Congos, Los "Le Vamos A Dar la Gracias" (We're Going to Thank You) / Albertino "Moreno" Graciano, Victoriano Fortunato Vargas, Vicente Vargas Depozo, Donatilia Vargas
Baile, Cum, Cum, Baile - a Bambula / Dona and Jorge Bertiliia, Benjamin Perez, Nino
Ave Maria, Llena de Gracia - a Salves (Hail Mary, Full of Grace) / Nino, Bertilia, Benjamin Perez
Yo Traigo un Lirio (I Bring a Bouquet) / Seseco Martinez,Jorge, Nino
Viejo Luis a Bambula / orge, Benjamin Perez, Bertilia
Three Children's Songs / Children from Samana
Navidad sin Mi Madre Cumbia (Christmas without My Mother) / Nicole Guitierres, Porfifio Rosario, and Santo Peña
Check out Earth CDS for more great music that you won't be able to find anywhere. Thanks Larry for the info.
Miguel Fenton, originally from Dominican Republic studied music at the Santo Domingo Conservatory. Miguel took instrument making classes and studied in a variety of percussion workshops in Cuba, Haiti and with Alto Moreida (Brazillian Percussion). In 1975, he was a percussionist with the Santo Domingo Music Conservatory Orchestra, the Dominican Folk Ballet, and played in the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival.
Mostly interested in his country’s musical roots, from 1982 to 1985 he lead the band Raices. They focused on Jazz,  Dominican folklore influenced music, and they had many concerts using experimental blends of percussion.

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Miguel Fenton  has become very popular in the Quebec and Ontario areas since he arrived in Montreal.He preforms in festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Festival, Coup de Cœur Francophone, Drummondville’s Folk Festival, Cowansville Festival, Toronto’s Hispano Festival and Ottawa’s Festival. He has played percussion with different Latin,
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African, Haitian, Itaily, Latin jazz and commercial bands. In 1997, after many appearances on télévision and radio shows (Radio Canada…) Fenton won the prize for Latin percussionist with the best visibility with Latino and Quebec public. He was a regular guest on TéléRitmo, a show about Afro-Dominican folklore and the variety of Latino-American instruments.

In 1989, Miguel Fenton formed the Jazz-Latin band he formed, SAINAGUA, gave him the opportunity to work with many talented musicians renowned in the music industry as well as in Quebec’s culture. In 1994 SAINAGUA won the prize for best Jazz-Latin band in Montreal. Miguel is also known for recording the percussion section for Carlos Ferrand movie CUEVO.

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This video from Earth CD's is an exert from DVD 'The Culture of Palo'," It is an archival collection of all the marvelous musical-religious expressions encountered in the course of filming 'MISTERIOS'. This footage is presented as a valuable and long-awaited addition to the scarce material available on the subject of religious music and traditions in the Dominican Republic. Anthropologists, ethno-musicologists and the general public will find this work entertaining and educational. It will also offer them a new and valid teaching tool, but most of all, help preserve at least a small part of this rapidly disappearing and mutating oral tradition."
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