{"product_id":"leyla-macculla-vari-colored-songs","title":"Leyla McCalla: Vari-Colored Songs (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/about_this_recording_transparent_black_shadow_2_522753e9-66ba-48ea-8558-b0cd53a478e3_480x480.png?v=1646166167\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeyla 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_transparent_blue_background_correct_version_80976754-e9e0-46de-b62f-ac42fe034a4c_480x480.png?v=1646155801\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Heart of Gold\u003cbr\u003e2 When I Can See the Valley\u003cbr\u003e3 Mesi Bondye\u003cbr\u003e4 Girl\u003cbr\u003e5 Kamèn Sa w FÈ?\u003cbr\u003e6 Too Blue\u003cbr\u003e7 Manman Mwen\u003cbr\u003e8 Song for a Dark Girl\u003cbr\u003e9 Love Again Blues\u003cbr\u003e10 Rose Marie\u003cbr\u003e11 Latibonit\u003cbr\u003e12 Search\u003cbr\u003e13 Lonely House\u003cbr\u003e14 Changing Tide\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48152980029690,"sku":"093074024119","price":23.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/3847905-2597424.jpg?v=1766518804","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/en-de\/products\/leyla-macculla-vari-colored-songs","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}