Harmika Yab-Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal

1. Radio Nepal 1/Street Sermon

2. Radio Nepal II

3. Pony Train/Radio Nepal III

4. Snake Charmers/Radio Nepal IV

5. Wedding Procession and Apothecary/Radio Nepal V

6. Radio Nepal VI

7. Novice Buddhist Monks

8. Durga Puja Slaughter/Huge Prayer Wheel/Kathmandu Street Ambiance/Beggar

9. Radio Nepal VII

10. All Night Festival

11. Pokhara Dogs

Harmika Yab-Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal,Various Artists,Sublime Frequencies,Int'l & World Music,Pop,V/a Compilations

Average customer rating: A waste of money

Harmika Yab-Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal Various Artists Manufacturer: Sublime Frequencies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Radio Morocco Streets of Lhasa Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq Radio Thailand: Transmissions from the Tropical Kingdom Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom ASIN: B0006VXMC6 Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

1. Radio Nepal 1/Street Sermon
2. Radio Nepal II
3. Pony Train/Radio Nepal III
4. Snake Charmers/Radio Nepal IV
5. Wedding Procession and Apothecary/Radio Nepal V
6. Radio Nepal VI
7. Novice Buddhist Monks
8. Durga Puja Slaughter/Huge Prayer Wheel/Kathmandu Street Ambiance/B ...
9. Radio Nepal VII
10. All Night Festival
11. Pokhara Dogs

Customer Reviews:

A waste of money.......2007-05-05

Over half of this CD are sounds and songs that were recorded off the radio(seven of hte eleven tracks), and most of the rest of the album was recorded, apparently, on the streets of Kathmandu and other places in Nepal - random ambient sounds. One track is dogs barking in Pokhara. Having been to Pokhara, and heard these very same dogs barking, I can attest that it sounds the same as dogs barking in Kathmandu, or for that matter, Salinas, or Muncie Indiana, or ... you get the picture. I guess this is supposed to be some sort of "orientalist" or "exoticist" pastiche of "nepalese" sounds. The liner notes try to paint the country as some bizarre hallucination (India is the "psychotic neighbor" to the south), and the entire country is filled with bizarre rituals, drunken women, blood, Tibetan monks and other "exotic" and "bizarre" sights.

I was hoping that this would be a collection of real Nepalese folk music, having been to Nepal three times. Having heard the real thing before, this CD is not the real thing. Rather it is a Westerner's re-packaging of other materials and atmospheric sounds to make a little $$. And as much of the material was recorded off Radio Nepal, there might even be some copyright infringement on this CD - did the producers of this CD have permission to re-broadcast these songs for their own financial benefit? Something tells me that they didn't bother to look into that.

This CD actually does a great deal of disservice to Nepal, feeding the worst Western stereotypes of this country, giving no valuable information whatsoever on the music and artists featured (probably because the makers of this CD didn't bother to find out anything about them), and then reduplicating materials for their own profit.

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