Ancestor Sounds - Africatown CD

SKU: AfricatownCD
Artists: Africatown, AL
Publisher: PM Press
Catalog No: PMA 025-2
UPC: 877746011528
Release Date: February 2024
Format: CD with booklet
Size: 5.5 x 5.5
Length: 32 minutes

Price:

$14.95

Overview

An album of landmark recordings featuring residents of the Africatown community, including descendants from the last slave ship brought to America, the Clotilda.

This recording is meant as an impressionistic document rather than a definitive historical narrative. All recordings were performed on-site as 100% live first-takes. The outdoor nature of the recordings graphically renders the encroaching and ominous industrial sounds of the area. A combination of various folk traditions, the pieces on this album combine both historical narrative and contemporary life experiences for the people of the Africatown community. Intended as an audio companion to the book Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End, these recordings also stand strong on their own. This CD is yet another step in the ongoing quest of Grammy Award winning music producer and author Ian Brennan to provide musical platforms for underrepresented nations and populations around the world.

Proceeds benefit the Africatown Drummers, LLC and various other local organizations.

The Guardian awarded Ancestor Sounds "Folk Album of the Month" for March 2024. Read the review here.

Tracklist:

1. Run If You Can (Don't Go Down That Road)

2. Family Secret

3. Do You Hear Me Now?

4. Lead Me Home

5. Black Part of Town

6. Illegal Factory (Smokestack Sighs)

7. Africatown in Their Face

8. Kept Me

9. First Thing He Did When Freed Was Build a Drum