Swamp Girl
Spellbinding Primitive Rhythms by Chaino, Percussion Genius of Africa
Produced, Composed and Arranged By Kirby Allen
Dot DLP 3240
Dot DLP 3240
1959
From the back cover: Chaino was born thirty years ago in a remote part of Central Africa. While still a small boy, his tribe was wiped out in an attack from neighboring tribes. As the sole survivor, he was discovered near death by a missionary and his wife who nursed him back to health and brought him up.
Chaino is said to be of a strange race in Central Africa-one that is highly intelligent and greatly feared by other tribes in the area. His missionary guardians report that Chaino always had an extraordinary sense of rhythm and that at a very early age he began beating out strange rhythms and singing strange chants. He pounded on anything and everything that would make noise, and at the age of four or five he made his first drum.
His adoptive parents took him with them on their travels through Africa, Haiti, and Cuba, and brought him to the United States where they settled in Philadelphia. Here Chaino attended school until he was fifteen years old. He never ceased playing his drums and chanting his exotic songs. Chaino created as he played.
Each time he pounds out a rhythm, whether it be a chant of the Belgian Congo (where he learned the rhythms of Africa) a Calypso beat of Cuba, Voodo rituals learn ed in Haiti, or one of his own unearthly chants of the jungle, he seems to go into a trance as he plays from his soul. Chaino holds his audience spellbound!
One of Chaino's most outstanding feats is to play seven or more drums at the same time, employing elbows, knees and chin, with such a blur of speed that you can hardly see his hands. The unique rhythms that Chaino has created have influenced musicians, arrangers and composers the world over.
Breathing Bongos
Swamp Girl
Walking Bongos
African Jazz
Congo Serenade
Bi-La
Poko Cha Cha
Slave Girl
Bongo Beat
Slave Train
Afro Cha Cha
Bongo Stick Boogie
Chaino is said to be of a strange race in Central Africa-one that is highly intelligent and greatly feared by other tribes in the area. His missionary guardians report that Chaino always had an extraordinary sense of rhythm and that at a very early age he began beating out strange rhythms and singing strange chants. He pounded on anything and everything that would make noise, and at the age of four or five he made his first drum.
His adoptive parents took him with them on their travels through Africa, Haiti, and Cuba, and brought him to the United States where they settled in Philadelphia. Here Chaino attended school until he was fifteen years old. He never ceased playing his drums and chanting his exotic songs. Chaino created as he played.
Each time he pounds out a rhythm, whether it be a chant of the Belgian Congo (where he learned the rhythms of Africa) a Calypso beat of Cuba, Voodo rituals learn ed in Haiti, or one of his own unearthly chants of the jungle, he seems to go into a trance as he plays from his soul. Chaino holds his audience spellbound!
One of Chaino's most outstanding feats is to play seven or more drums at the same time, employing elbows, knees and chin, with such a blur of speed that you can hardly see his hands. The unique rhythms that Chaino has created have influenced musicians, arrangers and composers the world over.
Breathing Bongos
Swamp Girl
Walking Bongos
African Jazz
Congo Serenade
Bi-La
Poko Cha Cha
Slave Girl
Bongo Beat
Slave Train
Afro Cha Cha
Bongo Stick Boogie
This rocks.
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