Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Where The River Bends Is Only the Beginning (2024) [Hi-Res]

Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) are a brother duo - Dwight Sampie and Robert Jabini - who write and perform flowing acoustic songs sung in Saramaccan, the language from the Americas with the most African elements. Their debut album was recorded in situ by Grammy winner Ian Brennan (Parchman Prison Prayer, Ustad Saami, The Good Ones) along a remote riverside in the Amazon region of Suriname. The lyrics are topical and reference everyday strife such as the rising tides and floods in the area due to global warming. Their bone raw songs and performances evoke heart-worn longing, a deep sense of place and a strange familiarity. As if Merle Haggard had been raised in the Amazon rather than Bakersfield. “Where the River Bends is Only the Beginning” is the 12th release in Glitterbeat’s acclaimed Hidden Musics series.



Tracklist:
1.01 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Some Kind of New Beginning (3:27)
1.02 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - One Mother, Two Hearts (3:05)
1.03 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Thank God, I Made It Through the Night (3:08)
1.04 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - I Built Two Boats to Take Me to the Sea (1:57)
1.05 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Villages Swallowed by the Floods (2:51)
1.06 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Please, Save Me (3:50)
1.07 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Sweet River (The Government Drowned Our Village for the Dam) (2:37)
1.08 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Goodbye, We Will Never Meet Again (1:15)
1.09 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Death Rites Riverside (1:14)
1.10 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - When I Go to Sleep (3:38)
1.11 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - We Lost Someone Close to Us Again (3:21)
1.12 - Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) - Ancestor Call (0:36)