Re: Song translation

Alan Blattberg (alanb@panix.com)
Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:31:48 -8000


On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, "KEVIN D. ENGLAND"
<kengland@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> spake thusly:

> This may not be the place to ask, but since a lot of Brazilian music
> creeps in I'll try......There is a song by Caetano Veloso called "Ile
> Aiye" I can translate most of it, but the title escapes me. Who, what
> or where is Ile Aiye? This has been bugging me for years. Thanks.

Dunno, but "Ile Aiye" is also the title of one of the recent spate of
nifty new "world musik" discs put out by Interra. As always, there
are next to no liner notes on it, but the subtitle of the disc is
"Black Chant," and the music has a distinctly African flava.

Alan Blattberg
alanb@panix.com
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