Valses to Voodoo: Piano Music of Haitian Composer Ludovic Lamothe; Joshua Russell, Piano (2010) http://www.joshuarussellpianist.com/products/
Ludovic Lamothe is one of Haiti's most renowned classical composers. He was
born in Port-au-Prince, his country's capital, on May 12, 1882. Both
of his parents were pianists, and Ludovic took his first piano
lessons from his mother. Vodou
Nation: Haitian Art Music And Cultural Nationalism,
written by Michael Largey, and published by The University of Chicago
Press (2006), is an important reference source for his music.
Ludovic
Lamothe is profiled at AfriClassical.com
which
features a comprehensive Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de
Lerma,
http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com
The CD Valses to Voodoo can be ordered at Joshua Russell's website,
http://www.joshuarussellpianist.com/products/An earlier CD which is still available is A Vision of Ludovic Lamothe by pianist Charles P. Phillips, on IFA Music Records (2001). C-Force, a trio based in the Bahamas, has arranged and recorded a 1:34 version of Lamothe's Nibo, written as a
protest to the military occupation of Haiti by the United States. It appears on the trio's debut CD Tchaka Mizik released in 2010.
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