Music
Music: World Music Set
- Item Number
- 115
Item Description
Two disc set of music from Indonesia (Music for the Gods: The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition: Indonesia) and Nigeria (The Igede of Nigeria).
The second release in Mickey Hart's Endangered Music Project captures the shimmering music of Indonesia as it existed in 1941, when the Fahnestock brothers set sail to record the indigenous musics of Bali, Java, Madura and Arjasa with state-of-the-art Presto disc-cutters. This collection is an extraordinary achievement in the restoration of deteriorating cellulose-acetate discs, and in the preservation of the elegant and haunting cultural traditions of the Indonesian archipelago prior to its westernization in WWII. These recordings provide a window on a world radically different from our own -- one which has been changed almost beyond recognition in the intervening years. But thanks to the Endangered Music Project -- and above all to the heroic efforts of Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock -- this MUSIC FOR THE GODS will resonate through the ages.
The second disc is an exceptional recording of native musicians from Nigeria's Benue State. Music groups from many different villages sing and play a wide variety of instruments in accordance with sacred ceremonies and rites of passage. Enticing vocal harmonies are sung by tribespeople of all ages. Instruments featured include talking drums, clay pots, calabash trumpets, and other percussion instruments. Includes extensive descriptive notes.
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