''Aché'' is a 1982 album by the Cuban singer
Merceditas Valdés
Mercedes Valdés Granit (September 24, 1922 – June 13, 1996), better known as Merceditas Valdés, was a Cuban singer who specialized in Afro-Cuban traditional music. Under the aegis of ethnomusicologists Fernando Ortiz and Obdulio Morales, Vald ...
. It was a return to recording after a long absence from the studio, and the first of four albums of Yoruba-roots influenced music. The album won an
EGREM
EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales, Spanish for ''Enterprise of Recordings and Musical Editions'') is the national record label of Cuba. It is headquartered in Centro Habana, where its main record studios (''Estudios Areito'' 101 & ...
prize. ''Aché'' is the Cuban spelling of
Ase
Ase may refer to:
* Ase, Nigeria, a town in Delta State, Nigeria
* -ase, a suffix used for the names of enzymes
* Aṣẹ, a West African philosophical concept
* American Sign Language (ISO 639-3 code: ase)
See also
* Åse (disambiguation) Å ...
, the
Orisha
Orishas (singular: orisha) are spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Santería and Brazilian Candomblé. T ...
term for "life power", and Valdés herself was sometimes known by the nickname "Little Aché".
[Philip Sweeney – ''The Rough Guide to Cuban Music''2001 p43 1858287618]
Track listing
Songs are adaptations of folk tunes except where noted.
Side A
# Eleguá
# Ogún
# "Lacho"
# Quirino (
Eliseo Grenet
Eliseo Grenet Sánchez (12 June 1893 in Havana – 4 December 1950) was a Cuban pianist and a leading composer/arranger of the day. He composed music for stage shows and films, and some famous Cuban dance music.Giro, Radamés 2007. ''Diccionar ...
, N. Guillén)
# Changó
Side B
# Mango Mangué
# Drume Negrito (Grenet)
# Ochún – 3:54
# Yambambó (Grenet, Guillén)
# Obatalá
References
1982 albums
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