Exuma, Vol. 1

Artist: Exuma
Label: Repertoire
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 766482791842
EAN: 0766482791842
ASIN: B0000AVF2C

Release Date: 2003-09-25

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Expand Your Mind, Become A True Cosmic Beast

Tracks:

Exuma, the Obeah Man
Dambala
Mama Loi, Papa Loi
Junkanoo
Seance in the Sixth Fret
You Don't Know What's Going On
Vision

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Customer Reviews:

CHILL OUT?.......2007-01-26

Somebody wrote, you should turn down the lights light a candle and chill out to Exuma. You can't 'chill out' when Exuma is on the box. I remember hearing this album for the 1st time at a party in Queens about '70 or '71. Obeah Man came on and the whole crowd got into this groove. I was like a man who'd just discovered fire. I needed to share this with the world. After obtaining a copy of the album, I played it at a party in Philadelphia. Weird. The whole crowd walked in an orderly line and cleared the joint out in 3 minutes. Tried it at another party in Philly, some of the same people but the atmosphere was different. The crowd caught the groove and it was like New York all over again. Then I knew Exuma is special. The instrumentation: awesome. The lyrics: awesome. The concept: awesome. I CAME DOWN ON A LIGHTNING BOLT. NINE MONTHS IN MY MOTHER'S BELLY. WHEN I WAS BORN THE MIDWIFE SCREAMED AND SHOUT. I HAD FIRE AND BRIMSTONE COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH. I'M EXUMA. I'M THE OBEAH MAN.

So many memories..........2007-01-06

I am so glad to finally see Exuma on CD! My parents used to play this for me all the time when I was younger, and it's so nice to be able to hear this music again without having to worry about ruining the vinyl. This kind of sound isn't for everyone, and I don't even know if I can classify it under any specific catagory. It's like no music you've ever heard or ever will hear again.

what's good is good forever.......2006-11-10

i had this lp in the 70's & played it to death. it went the way of all of my old "records" -- to the 2nd hand record shop. i looked for years for it on updated media, but it wasn't until a recent search on amazon i found it had been released to cd. i ordered it immediately & the memories of this haunting, african/caribbean voodoo music flooded my senses. this is a must addition to any global music collection. it's unique sounds & imagery leave a lasting impression. i'm so glad this has been released to cd so "the next generation" of listeners can be impressed by this wonderful body of unusual music!

One of a kind genius produces voodoo based masterpiece.......2005-02-18

Exuma albums I and II, what can i say?
If Paul Simon is a gawd with you AVOID Exuma at all cost as Exuma has a song on ExumaII, Paul Simon NonTooth; but that title itself gives a glimpse into the power, complexity and the far beyond the realm of what people call popular music that this man acheived.
The album was one of the first powerful statements from the African culture based music to get out into the U.S. in defiant stand against the friendly sweet music of the W.A.S.P. world.
This is power music with complex rhythms and a man with a voice that can however go soft and feeling to graveled spinetingly rolling thunder power in moments of seconds.

I cherish my two vinyls of Exuma i and II, so i am glad to see Exuma albums have lived on to reappear in CD, over 30years from when they first came out.
Exuma was a genuine Obeah Man from the Bahamas and Voodoo(Light/White Voodoo) is distinctly in these albums and i intend to research to find what followed in his life.
I am sure he must have put down much more music but on rare and obscure labels.
For the adventuresome, and you know who you are;) i give both ExumaI and ExumaII the highest recommendation rating of 5stars.
These were the work of a genius.
I will forever remember the time i heard his lyric "you can't put the light back into Ray Charles' eyes".

One of the Greatest Unknown Tracks of All Time.......2004-02-27

Finally! A re-release of this imaginative "underground" sound. And it is just that, a "sound" that is nothing like you've ever heard.

There was a time during 1968-71 that Carribean, Bahamian music was big. Sort of a vodoo, mojo sound. Dr. John went this way too with "Dr. John, the night tripper Gris-gris". But nobody did it better than Exuma.

Light some candles, turn down the lights and put on the first track. Then just chill-out.

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