Depicting Santa Bárbara, catholic syncretization of Changó, in the cover, this compilation made by Professor Carmelina Poldo and music director Gilberto Valdes, surveys the Orishas from the Afro-Cuban and Afro-Latin pantheon.

Alejo Carpentier famously justified Latin America as a baroque and marvelously realist region by saying that the word pine is enough to show us the pine tree; the word Ceiba, though, requires a complex process of translation and explanation to make someone foreign imagine how such a tree looks like. We thought about this when listening to this prayer to “Yroco Santo”, an Orisha who lives at the base of the Ceiba tree, immersed in the complexity of its roots, being many things at once, protecting walkers and guarding the equilibrium of nature.