Beneath the promenade in Zadar, Croatia, columns of air and water are conducted by the Adriatic; from holes in the ground, Nature sings an eerie tune

Sea Organ, Zadar, Croatia

this is the song for all mothers in the world 

Maman Manam Pesaret Milad Kawa

Toumani Diabate at Mt. Carmel College

Recorded by Brian Mann, mixed by Jeremy Alsop.

MARY MASTER TURNING POINT

Pasif.ist album.  
Natalia Mann (harp), Izzet Kizil (percussion,drums), Sercan Halili (classic kemence, alto kemence), Dine Doneff (double bass), Abdullah Shakar (fretless & electric bass), Richard Nunns (taonga puoro), Lucien Johnson (alto & tenor saxophone), Deniz Güngör (aqua), Naomi Jean (gongs & co-writer on Time), Riki Gooch (percussion), Serdar Pazarcıoğlu (violin). 


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Balonyona, a master geedal player, recorded by Louis Sarno at Yandoumbé in the Central African Republic, 20th August 1992. 

Louis Sarno, a pioneering field recorder, has been recording Bayaka music in the rainforests of the Central African Republic and Republic of Congo since 1985. His ethnographic collection of more than 1000 hours of audio and thousands of images is curated by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

For more information about geedal music, please visit:

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/index.php/multimedia-film-geedal

For more information about the Louis Sarno archive please visit:

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/index.php/collections-sarno

Sound Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum project website and blog:

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/
http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk

Balonyona playing geedal (Yandoumbé, Central African Republic, 1992) [1997 21 2 52 A 3]

Camp scene at night, Momboli playing mbyo (four hole notched flute). Recorded by Louis Sarno in the Central African Republic, 25th September 1992. The Louis Sarno collection of more than 1000 hours of recordings of Bayaka music and soundscapes from the Central African Republic and Northern Congo is curated by the Pitt Rivers Museum, together with thousands of fieldwork images.


The Louis Sarno Collection:

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/index.php/collections-sarno

Reel to Real project website and blog:

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/
http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.com

Momboli playing mbyo (flute) (Central African Republic) [1997 21 2 58 A 6]

Makuti and Mbonjo playing mondumé and singing. Recorded by Louis Sarno in the Central African Republic, 1993. The image shows Géké - another musician - playing the mondumé. The Louis Sarno collection of more than 1000 hours of recordings of Bayaka music and soundscapes from the Central African Republic and Northern Congo is curated by the Pitt Rivers Museum, together with thousands of fieldwork images.

Makuti & Mbonjo playing mondumé and singing (Central African Republic) [1997 21 2 77 A 9]

The Vaults of (Roots Music) Heaven: Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music Unlocks the Lost Gems and Wild Creativity of its Live Archives 

Venerable vernacular music institution releases 127 live tracks by the best in American and global music from last half century. 

On a stacks of cassettes, reel to reel tapes and digital audio tapes lay the history of American music. There were local legends and major icons, global musicians and indie rockers. Some captured beautifully from the board, some gleaned quietly from the dusty archives of a radio station, the recordings held wildly creative decades of sound from Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, a roots-music touchstone for nearly 55 years. And no one had heard them.

Joan Baez and Donovan, Big Bill Broonzy and Ella Jenkins, Pete Seeger and Taj Mahal, Martin Carthy and Steve Earle, Doc Watson and Mahalia Jackson: It was a literal who’s-who of folk, gospel, country, bluegrass, blues, and world music, caught in hours of exciting performances. But someone had to put the pieces together—all 127 tracks worth—and someone had to clear all the rights with 85 different artists.

They succeeded, against odds that would have stopped others in their tracks. Live From The Old Town School (Old Town School Recordings; release: December 13, 2011) reveals not only the venerable institution’s storied start, but its role in the recent infusion of new energy into the roots music world, with everyone from Toumani Diabate and Oumou Sangare to Andrew Bird and Lila Downs. 

Jarabi, Toumani Diabate

Beautiful intuitive art music on harp.

..."inspired contemporary improvisation with a world-music twist." - Alexandra Ivanoff, music journalist

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Natalia Mann

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