Dancing With The Dead: The Music Of Global Death Rites

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The excellently documented collections released by Ellipsis Arts typically focus either on geographical regions (as on the China: Time to Listen box set) or a geographic blur (as on Planet Soup). But this collection carries on the "states of being" focus begun with the Celtic Lullaby anthology. Death, the collection maintains, is almost universally treated with some reverential musical ceremony, and over the course of 17 tracks, we get a Southern Baptist eulogy, a Tibetan Buddhist sheng-guan performance, a Balinese gamelan orchestra excerpt, and a flute and drum performance from the Antanosy and Mahafaly people of Madagascar. Without exception, the music chafes at a purely musical--or purely programmatic--role, reaching for exultant force here, and quiet somberness there. It also works in almost each case to include the community of witnesses at a death ritual, either by antiphonal call-and-response singing or by deeply rooted instrumental displays that the community understands as a matter of cultural course (serious though the course may be). As is usually the case with Ellipsis Arts, this single CD comes lavishly packaged. It's slipped into a hardcover book with musical annotations and an introductory essay by Greg Palmer, who produced the Death, The Trip of a Lifetime television special. --Andrew Bartlett

Tracks:

Funeral Eulogy For Elder Marguerite McClain - Pastor Ediemae Layne
Sing On - The Eureka Brass Band
Lanhua Mei - Tianjin Buddhist Music Ensemble
Rone Umaraa De - Asif Ali Khan//Manzoor Hussain Santoo Kahn & Ensemble
La Luz Redentora - Los Nani
Funeral Music - Nasio People Of Papua, New Guinea
Eyl Male Rakhamim - Janet Leuchter
El Llorar - Los Camperos De Valles
Kalokalo - Antanosy Mahafaly Peoples In Madagascar
The Nang Hong Suite - Fong Naam
'Zari' Ritual Lamentation - 'Lileh' Choir Of Dmanisi
Vaishnava Jan Tou Tene Khaiye - Sanjukta Sen
Fontomfrom Drums - Koo Nimo And The Kumasi Ensemble Adadam Agofomma
Amura Sebina - Debuia Koke - Coraja Ajare - Gabriel Souza Carvaljo
Bird Song - Keith Mahone
Untitled (excerpt from a longer composition) - Seka Gamelan Angklung 'Karya Bakti'
Music For The End Of Mourning - Central African Republic Bokoto Music

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The excellently documented collections released by Ellipsis Arts typically focus either on geographical regions (as on the China: Time to Listen box set) or a geographic blur (as on Planet Soup). But this collection carries on the "states of being" focus begun with the Celtic Lullaby anthology. Death, the collection maintains, is almost universally treated with some reverential musical ceremony, and over the course of 17 tracks, we get a Southern Baptist eulogy, a Tibetan Buddhist sheng-guan performance, a Balinese gamelan orchestra excerpt, and a flute and drum performance from the Antanosy and Mahafaly people of Madagascar. Without exception, the music chafes at a purely musical--or purely programmatic--role, reaching for exultant force here, and quiet somberness there. It also works in almost each case to include the community of witnesses at a death ritual, either by antiphonal call-and-response singing or by deeply rooted instrumental displays that the community understands as a matter of cultural course (serious though the course may be). As is usually the case with Ellipsis Arts, this single CD comes lavishly packaged. It's slipped into a hardcover book with musical annotations and an introductory essay by Greg Palmer, who produced the Death, The Trip of a Lifetime television special. --Andrew Bartlett

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