You haven’t been to Ireland, if you haven’t been to an Irish pub listening to a band playing traditional Irish music. Back in early 2000, when on a cycling adventure around the Irish south coast, passing through a field of celtic burial mounds just before reaching Cork, I had the perfect preparation to the experience […]
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Afunaka’s Rorogwela: Sweet Lullaby from the Solomon Island sold as Pygmy music
September 2, 2012 
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Although Rorogwella gained popularity in 1992, when released by Deep Forest as a techno-dance music, it was first recorded in 1969 by the ethnomusicologist Hugo Zampin as a vocal sample. It was sung by Afunakwa, a Northern Malaita women from the Solomon Islands. In 1973, Rorogwela was released in a LP as part of UNESCO’s […]
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