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Wife and I found this collection of records at a small used record store in Colorado, found out there was virtually no information available about them, and decided to share them with y'all!

Discs play at 78rpm, included video shows 33rpm because it was recorded just to avoid having a static image!

Disc 1 side A has a chip missing from the edge of the vinyl, leading to the skipping sounds present in the first few seconds of the recording.

Each track is pressed with a channel in the vinyl that leads back to the final verse, intended to allow the song to repeat ad infinitum. A single instance of each has been included in these recordings.

A download link is available below if you would like your own copies of this ostensibly rare recording!

The tracks used to make the youtube upload have had slight adjustments made to their volume to reduce clipping, and to reduce some white noise. They have also been trimmed at the beginning and end to remove silence. Those are included as mp3 encodings, as well as the raw WAV output in its unedited form.

The date in the mp3 metadata is an estimate, details about this set of recordings are very hard to find online, and the best we know is the record company went out of business in 1943.

https://archive.org/details/voodoo-songs-of-haiti

00:00 - Èrzulie Nainain Oh (Jenvelo Song)
03:02 - Moundongue Oh Yè Yè Yè (Rada Song)
06:01 - Dja KéKé Dja (Corn Grinding Song)
09:01 - Ćiye Ciyé Ti Bobine Carré (Congo Ciyé Song)
12:00 - Ibo-Lélé (Ibo Song)
15:07 - Joué Kanga Joué (Kanga Song)
18:13 - Jean Pierre Poungué (Congo Song)
21:11 - Soleil Malade (Rada Song)