Utom: Summoning The Spirit - Music In The T'boli Heartland

From the Label
This collection of field recordings, made in 1995 by album producer Manolete Mora (author of the release’s extensive liner notes), captures the music of the T’boli, a group of approximately 80,000 people whose ancestral heartland is Lake Sebu on the Philippine island of Mindanao. "Utom," the translation and interpretation of the sounds of the natural world into musical composition, expresses happiness and reflects the T’boli people’s closeness to nature. T’boli culture, currently jeopardized by industrial development and rampant land-grabbing, has suffered immensely in the post-Marcos years. Mora, an ethnomusicologist who has spent a great deal of time in the Lake Sebu region, edited the material on this 67-minute collection down from many hours of recordings made amongst the T’boli people. The utom compiled on Summoning The Spirit are performed on lute, bamboo zither, flute, fiddle, various forms of gong, mouth harp, percussion, and voice.

• Executive Producer -- Mickey Hart.

• Recorded and Produced by Manolete Mora

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Average customer rating: Traditional Music from the Philippines

Utom: Summoning The Spirit - Music In The T'boli Heartland Various Artists Manufacturer: Rykodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | Far East | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Far East & Asia | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Kulintang: Ancient Gong/Drum Music of the Southern Phillippines Music of the Philippines: Fiesta Filipina Music For The Gods: The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition, Indonesia Voices Of The Rainforest: A Day In The Life Of The Kaluli People The Travelling Jewish Wedding ASIN: B0000009R8 Release Date: 1997-09-23

Tracks:

1. Call Of The Cicada
2. Flying Woodpecker
3. Dance Tune
4. Call Of The Cicada
5. Gongs OF The Lemlahak Man
6. Reed Pipe
7. Song Of The Night Bird
8. Beat Of The Horses Hoofs
9. Call Of The Cicada
10. Cackling M'naul Bird
11. Concealed Touch/ Mother Of Daddang/ Lute Dance
12. Beating The Gongs Slowly
13. Beating The Gongs Criss
14. Sound Of The Wind
15. Hymn Of Lake Sebu
16. Prized Banana
17. Lute/ Child Yearns For Its Dead Mother
18. Sendulug
19. Fast Tenintu
20. Continuously/ No Head

Customer Reviews:

Traditional Music from the Philippines.......2002-01-08

I love Mickey Hart's "The World" series. Almost every CD in this series has been a wonderful addition to my collection, ranging from Mickey Hart's own efforts to create modern music which defies any known genere, to various ethnc artists feaured under the label, to historical recordings of indigenous cultures. This CD is one of the latter, focusing in on the T'boli natives of the Philippines, a region whose indigenous musical traditions have long been ignored. I had very high expectations for this CD when I ordered it, and I was not at all disappointed. There is a great deal of diversity in the instruments and styles presented here. All manner of stringed and wind instruments were used by the artists on this CD, many of which are similar to those found across Southeast Asia. And, of course, there are also a number of gongs and percussion instruments, many reminiscent of Indonesian Gamelan. Other vocal foms of music on this CD focused in on the shamanic and poetic traditions of the T'boli. I really love this CD. The music is very beautiful and exotic, and yet so familar. The music is uniquely Southeast Asian.

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