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 […]
Continue readingAfunaka’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 […]
Continue readingTuvan Throat Singing
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The performance of Huun Huur Tu starts with the soft sounds of strumming strings. They mimic the cadence of galloping horses. The same sounds are graciously decorated by other sounds that resemble grains dropping in a glass jar. At this moment, the mind is full of memories of the melodic peacefulness of a rocky spring […]
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