Music From The Chocolate Lands CD

From: Putumayo POVID: 16958

In the spirit of the best-selling Music from the Coffee Lands, Music from the Chocolate Lands offers a rich selection of songs from the world’s chocolate producing countries.

Chocolate has been enjoyed for thousands of years. Used for medicinal and religious purposes, as well as for pleasure, traces of this “food of the gods” have been found in early Mayan pots dating back to 600 B.C.E. Europeans added sugar to the exotic concoction, and the chocolate craze gradually spread throughout the world. Now the cacao plant, which provides the raw cocoa beans for chocolate, is farmed in tropical locations around the globe, often far away from its Central and South American origins.

Music from the Chocolate Lands features a selection of songs as distinctive as chocolate’s history. This release includes music from the tropical countries that grow cocoa beans as well as collaborations with musicians from the European regions where chocolate-makers produce some of the world’s most appetizing chocolate products.

Music from the Chocolate Lands liner notes will be presented in English, French and Spanish and will include a recipe for a flourless chocolate torte and information on the history of chocolate around the world.

Artist	•	Song Sample
Toto Bona Lokua	•	Lisanga
Susheela Raman	•	Sarasa
Marcantonio	•	Sabiá
Beethova Obas	•	Rasanble
Ozomatli	•	Aquí No Será
Think of One	•	Paletó
Dobet Gnahoré	•	Kakou
Taffetas	•	Yay Balma
Teresa Bright	•	Tihore Mai Te Rangi
Adrian Martínez	•	Baba
Susana Baca	•	Valentin
Chocolate Armenteros	•	Chocolate Sabroso