Tracks:

1. Welcome to the Party
2. John Canoe
3. Paranda: Malati
4. Gunjai
5. Chumba
6. Combination Dance
7. Paranda: Arabo
8. Punta

Fromt he record label:
The kids on this recording aren’t cannibals but the Disney Corporation would like you to believe otherwise. The Lebeha Boys are barely-teen drummers from a tiny Garifuna fishing village on the Caribbean shores of Belize, Central America. Their ancestors came from West Africa and settled on the island of St. Vincent when their ship went down in a storm in 1635. They mixed with the local Carib Indians and formed one of the most unusual cultures found the in the world today. The British didn’t think much of their warrior ways and eventually sent them packing to the shores of Belize and Honduras.

The Garinagu (as Garifuna people are called) survive today mostly fishing and playing traditional drums, dancing Punta, Paranda, Chumba, and John Canoe, and making elaborate foofoo and cassava meals. UNESCO has named them a world treasure but Disney portrays them as savage cannibals succumbing to Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean Part Two movie (out summer 2006).

These half-dozen kids play their hearts out every night after school at the Lebeha Drumming center; they are as precocious on the drums, turtle shells, shakas and conch as any child prodigy violinist. If they could afford shoes they would go far in the music world, bringing infectious dance rhythms to the wider world. This binaural enhanced CD with bonus video donates the proceeds to their center.