Adventures In Modern Music: Music From The Lost Worlds (20 October)

[Diggedy Derek]

(Dance of the Wild Cattle, 1965, south-west Cambodia (photo by Jacques Brunet))

This special edition of Adventures In Modern Music presents rare and unheard ethnographic recordings from the collection of writer, musician and Wire contributor David Toop, from South East Asia and Africa to Hokkaido and the islands of the west coast of Scotland. We'll be exploring the work of field recordists such as John Levy and Jacques Brunet, who pioneered location recording from the 1950s onwards, travelling with Nagra tape decks the world over to capture healing music, death rituals, bear chants, animal dances, clapping songs, etc. Other selections will include rare excerpts from the Radio 3 sound archive, many of which were thought lost, wiped or forgotten since first broadcast in the 1970s, and the sounds of the Philips Unesco Collection, Ocora and Ethnic Folkways. David Toop will be joining Derek Walmsley in the studio to talk about these lost sounds and their place in the modern world.

Thursday 20 October, 8pm–10:30pm (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners. Streamed live at resonancefm.com

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/7527/

 

[Diggedy Derek]

Tonight! Tune in.

 

[Diggedy Derek]

This is now archived. Self-promotion, but trust me on this one. You owe it to yourself to listen to this. This two and a half hour tour of super-rare ethnographic vinyl contains some of the most extraordinary sounds you'll ever hear. These 1950s-70s recordings capture sound worlds and practices which are now gone – field recordings these days are rarely this breathtaking. Listen at The Wire's site or Soundcloud. You won't hear this music elsewhere. There is no archive just a mouseclick away. It's largely an untold story. Check it out.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/7821/

Self-promotion ends.

 

[gumdrops]

interesting. will check it out.

 

[you]

whatever's been playing for the last ten minutes is sick... I cannae see (not) no tracklist anywhere.... derek?

 

[zhao]

nice!

 

[luka]

i will listen to this dereck. it sounds interesting.

 

[grizzleb]

Listened to this last night in bed, lights off with the headphones. Fucking amazing. Felt like I was 13 again listening to the radio with all this weird as fuck esoteric music I'd never heard before. Some of these tracks are fucking unreal, in a way I'm surprised that I'd never heard some stuff like them before because they're so good.

 

[you]

grizzle - I had exactly the same feeling, except I was playing it loud through speakers and juggling- still no track list on wire.com though

 

[Client Eastwood]

I can see the tracklist here. Is this what you mean ?

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/7821/

Pasted....

Korean Confucian Music
(Universal Record Co LP, Korea)

A Jaeng Sanjo
“Jin Yang Jo”
(Asia Record Co LP, Korea)

“Yirrkala: Mortuary Ceremony For The Removal Of The Spirit Of The Deceased”
Recorded Yirrkala Mission, 1962
from Songs From The Northern Territory
(Australian Institute Of Aboriginal Studies LP, 1964)

’Eke pan pipe ensemble
Solomon Islands, recorded Hugo Zemp
from ‘Are ‘Are: Flutes De Pan Mélanésiennes, Malaita
(Collection Musée De l’Homme, Disques Vogue LP, 1971)

Music Of Ainus
(Seven Seas LP, Japan 1974)

Music Of Ainus
(Seven Seas LP, Japan 1974)

“Luklukvia (Seven Transverse Flutes And Hour-Glass Drum)”
Latmul, recorded 1972
from Papua Niugini: Music Of The Middle Sepik
(Musicaphon LP)

Yang Sze-chak
“Water Lily”
Recorded by John Levy circa 1968
from Chinese Classical Music
BBC Records LP

Buddhist chant
(JVC Japan LP)

Somba funeral ceremony
Recorded Simha Arom, 1973
from Ceremonial Music from Northern Dahomey
(Philips Unesco Collection LP, 1974)

Nang Suy
K’mu song
Recorded Jacques Brunet near Luang Prabang, Laos, 1972
(Galloway Records LP, France)

“Invitation To A Kill (Two Males, Whispering)”
Recorded Michael J Harner, 1956-57
from Music Of The Jivaro Of Ecuador
(Ethnic Folkways LP)

“Song Of Sea Weed”
from Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women’s Music Of Povungnituk
(Canadian Music Heritage Collection LP, 1980)

Gitonga singing horns, Mozambique,
Recorded by Hugh Tracey
from The Music Of Africa – Musical Instruments 4. Flutes & Horns
(Kaleidophone, 1972)

“Drumbeat To Summon Deities”
Recorded by Huston Smith in 1968
from The Music of Tibet: The Tantric Rituals
(Anthology Record & Tape Corporation LP, 1970)

“Andong-andong”
Recorded by Jacques Brunet in 1972
from Java: Gamelans from the Sultan’s Palace in Jogjakarta
(Archiv Produktion LP, 1973)

 

[you]

nah. that's an old one - the one from 10/11/2011 is what im after, 2 great tracks at the end after the ash ra tempel track - but it was all hella dope.....

 

[gumdrops]

this is really really good. everyone should listen to it. i liked pretty much everything he played. weird to hear david toop speak, ive never heard his voice before.

 

[luka]

i really like toop. i like his rap book and i like ocean of sound a lot. but he is one of those people that speak so infuriatingly slowly you want to throttle them. i hate slow speakers and ramblers and hummer and hawers.

 

[luka]

one of the things he says early on chimes in with something i wondere about. if music encodes something like a cultural virus, if particular rhythms or song structures can change society. if its not the lyrics that incites people at all, but the sound itself. i think early on jazz gets described as horrible jungle music as if it had the power to morally degrade anyone who listened to it or god forbid danced to it. sometimese i like to take that idea literally.

 

[you]

one of the things he says early on chimes in with something i wondere about. if music encodes something like a cultural virus, if particular rhythms or song structures can change society. if its not the lyrics that incites people at all, but the sound itself. i think early on jazz gets described as horrible jungle music as if it had the power to morally degrade anyone who listened to it or god forbid danced to it. sometimese i like to take that idea literally.

Luka - care to expand on this with a few references? This is well relevant for me right now.... maybe email or PM?