Aché (album)

Aché
Studio album by Merceditas Valdés
Released 1982
Recorded Cuba
Label Siboney EGREM
Merceditas Valdés chronology
Santero
(1954)		 Aché
(1982)		 Aché II
(1988)

Aché is a 1982 album by the Cuban singer Merceditas Valdés. It was a return to recording after a long absence from the studio, and the first of four albums of Yoruba-roots influenced music.[1] The album won an EGREM prize.[2] Aché is the Cuban spelling of Ase the Orisha term for "life power",[3] and Valdés herself was sometimes known by the nickname "Little Aché".[4]

Track listing

Songs folk tunes except where noted.

Side A

  1. Eleguá
  2. Ogún
  3. "Lacho"
  4. Quirino – written Eliseo Grenet, N. Guillén
  5. Changó

Side B

  1. Mango Mangué
  2. Drume Negrito – Grenet
  3. Ochún – 3:54
  4. Yambambó – Grenet, Guillén
  5. Obatalá

References

  1. ↑ Cristóbal Díaz Ayala Los contrapuntos de la música cubana 2006 p.101 "Y Merceditas Valdés regresa después de muchos años a los estudios de grabación y se edita ca.1982 "Aché", Lp Siboney 230, en que una de las dos caras está dedicada a rezos yorubas."
  2. ↑ Cuba internacional Issues 253-258 1991 p55 "MERCEDITAS. VALDES. LD. 4498. Después del merecido reconocimiento obtenido por Aché I, ganador en su categoría del Premio EGREM 1987 enfocado hacia el tema afrocubano y la canción de cuna, ."
  3. ↑ J. Lorand Matory Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy - 2009 1400833973 "the same word, aché, is widely used and understood among nd Cuban-influenced oricha worshipers in the United States and :he Caribbean basin. "
  4. ↑ Philip Sweeney - The Rough Guide to Cuban Music2001 p43 1858287618
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