For this first title in the Endangered Music Project, a subseries of THE WORLD, Mickey Hart explored the vast repositories of the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center, sorting through hundreds of hours of tapes representing rainforest cultures of the New World. Among these people, the natural environment remains inseparably linked to belief systems and spiritual values that have guided their tribes for generations. Now, with the decimation of tropical rainforest environments, these indigenous cultures are also being eroded, their traditions diluted or invalidated altogether -- and the spirit of a people can thus be lost, to the world at large and to its own young people and future generations.
The mission of The Endangered Music Project is the resurrection of archival tapes documenting such traditions from the silence of the Library shelves, remastering and sonically cleansing them to a listenable state for modern ears, and for posterity.
This album represents seven tribal cultures from seven different countries: the Garifune of Belize; the Choco Indians of Panama and Colombia; the Shipibo and the Ashaninka, both of Peru; the Aluku of French Guiana; the Wayana of Suriname, and the Maroons of Jamaica. Representing the best performances and most salvageable recordings of the enormous archival resources, these represent five decades of field recording by dedicated ethnomusicologists and anthropologists who had the foresight to capture these vanishing cultures. Proceeds from the sales of this recording benefit the performers and their descendants in trust, and make possible future recordings in the Endangered Music Project.
The Spirit Cries: Music Of The Rain Forests Of South America & The Caribbean,Indians of the Choco (Panama/Columbia),Shipibo (Peru),Rykodisc,Environmental,Pop,Sound Effects,World Music,Worldbeat
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ASIN: B0000009ON Release Date: 1993-03-02 |
Tracks:
- Music Of The Garifuna: Abelagudahani
- Music Of The Garifuna: Grating Song
- Music Of The Garifuna: Abaimahani
- Music Of The Garifuna: Abaimahani
- Music Of The Garifuna: Abaimahani
- Music Of The Garifuna: Arumahani
- Music Of The Garifuna: Paranda
- Music Of The Garifuna: Combination
- Music Of The Garifuna: Punta
- Music Of The Garifuna: Dugu Song
- Music Of The Choco Indians: Healing Song
- Music Of The Shipibo And Ashaninka: Shipibo Song
- Music Of The Shipibo And Ashaninka: Ashaninka Songs
- Music Of The Aluku: Aleke
- Music Of The Aluku: Songe
- Music Of The Aluku: Lonsei
- Music Of The Aluku: Mato
- Music Of The Aluku: Mato
- Music Of The Aluku: Awasa
- Music Of The Aluku: Kumanti
- Music Of The Aluku: Kumanti
- Music Of The Aluku: Agwado Song
- Music Of The Aluku: Susa
- Music Of The Wayana: Dance Song
- Music Of The Wayana: Love Song
- Music Of The Jamaican Moroons: Papa
- Music Of The Jamaican Moroons: Tambu
Customer Reviews:
An Excellent CD.......2002-01-08
The music includes songs from the Garifuna ("Black Caribs" of Belize), Choco Indians of Panama and Colombia, Shipibo of Peru, Ashaninka of Peru, Aluku of French Guiana, Wayana of Suriname and Maroons of Jamaica. Quite a diversity of cultures, ranging from Native Americans to the free descendants of African slaves brought over by the colonists. However, all these cultures have similar, and yet distinctly different, musical stylings.
Almost all the music on this CD is "traditional", or at least in the sense that the influence from western culture is minimal to no-existant, so it will please purists. Alot of it cosists of drumming, especially with the Aluku and Maroons, who were influenced heavily by the African music of their ancestors. However, some of the more interesting songs on here include a shamanic healing song and a Garifuna grating song! This is a great CD. I've had mine for over a year and still listen to it frequently.
Anyone interested in anthropology, musical history or Native American/Afro-Carribean culture should definately own a copy. Trust me you'll love it.
The voices of our planet.......2000-04-30
One of my favorite songs (#11) is performed by a Choco shaman as a way to cure a man's fever. The liner notes say that he shakes a palm frond to exorcise the fever-causing evil spirit out of the man. The palm frond also happens to create a rhythmic sound that comes across beautifully on cd along with the shaman's voice.
There are indeed a couple tracks on here that don't do much for me musically but that doesn't matter. The tracks that I love (which are almost all of them) are well worth the cost of this cd.
The music on this cd is mostly voice and percusssion oriented. Sometimes they are work songs, used to break up the monotony of jobs like grating cassava root. Sometimes they are healing songs, and sometimes they are ceremonial dance songs, etc... They are always important and give us a deeper understanding of the beauty that exists in the ancient way in which humans used to (and sometimes still do) live.
The music is haunting, accessible, and soulful........1999-06-24
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