Leyla Mccalla
Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes

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Smithsonian Folkways
Release date: 16/Oct/2020

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1.1 Heart of Gold

1.2 When I Can See the Valley

1.3 Mesi Bondye

1.4 Girl

1.5 Kamèn Sa w FÈ?

1.6 Too Blue

1.7 Manman Mwen

1.8 Song for a Dark Girl

1.9 As I Grew Older / Dreamer

1.10 Love Again Blues

1.11 Rose Marie

1.12 Latibonit

1.13 Search

1.14 Lonely House

1.15 Changing Tide

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Leyla McCalla's Vari-Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes' poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience. McCalla's music elegantly weaves Haitian influences together with American folk music, just as Hughes incorporated Black vernacular into his remarkable poetry, and the way the Haitian Kreyòl is a beacon for the survival of African identity through the brutal legacy of colonialism. This is music of reclamation, imbued with a quiet power that grapples with the immense weight of history.

This recording is part of the African American Legacy series co-produced with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency. Contains essays, lyrics, and over 44 minutes of music including the previously unreleased "As I Grew Older / Dreamer." Digipak.

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SFW40241

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