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Canto A Lo Divino (2lp)
'Canto A Lo Divino' is the unique musical expression of the Chilean peasant world - a conversation with the divine nourished by Biblical and other sacred texts. Rooted in the remote Central Valley of Chile at the skirt of the mountains and following the slopes of the major rivers, the Canto tradition has persisted for centuries in the voices of hundreds of men and women who sing of saints, the apocalypse, divine images, labour, drought, family and the cycle of plants. Mississippi Records is privileged to work with the Museo Campesino En Movimiento and their archive of hundreds of hours of intimate field recordings of the Canto - music rarely, if ever, heard outside of the region. Comes on a 2LP housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket with 8-page of lyric translations and liner notes about the Canto tradition by researcher Danilo Petrovich.