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Linda / Dakpa - Banda Polyphony album

  • Performer: Linda
  • Genre: Folk music
  • Title: Banda Polyphony
  • Released: 1976
  • Style: Field Recording, African
  • Country: US
  • MP3 version size: 1895 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1731 mb
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  • Rating: 4.9
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Description

Music for Ongo Ensemble: Ndjradje Balendro (Initiation Song) from Unesco Music Sources.

The Banda people form the largest ethnic group in the Central African Republic. They are divided into over fifty subgroups, each with its own speech, customs, and art forms. The orchestration of Banda music compiles polyphonic layers of wind instruments made from tree roots, bamboo, antelope horns, and other natural resources

Dakpa (2). Profile: This artist does not refer to a specific group of named individuals (such as a band or musical group) but rather defines the collective term for an ethnic group living in Central African Republic.

On this page you can not listen to mp3 music free or download album or mp3 track to your PC, phone or tablet. All materials are provided for educational purposes. Released at: This album was released on the label Philips (catalog number 6586 032) UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World (catalog number 6586 032) Musical Sources (catalog number XIV-1). This album was released in 1976 year. Format of the release is. Vinyl, LP. Album. The album included the following session artists: Narrator, Recorded By. Simha Arom.

The album was recorded by Majorie Shostak, who is part of a long line of untrained ethnomusicologists – like Colin Turnbull in the ’40s and ’50s and Louis Sarno today, who have both done important work with the Pygmies born out of a passion for their music. Music for the Kalahari is both a community building exercise and a source of entertainment. The orchestration of Banda music compiles polyphonic layers of wind instruments made from tree roots, bamboo, and antelope horns. Their ensembles are composed of a variety of flutes, horns, whistles, drums, and voices playing independent melodies that weave together in hocket. The ensembles are usually accompanied by jingles that are struck together or worn by dancers.

Dakpa (2). Banda Polyphony. Plainchant & Polyphony From Medieval Germany. LP, Album, Compilation. Doppelkonzert, San Francisco Polyphony, 2 Etüden Für Orgel, Glissandi.

Get Closer is the eleventh studio album by singer, songwriter and producer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1982. Get Closer found Ronstadt returning to the genres that had resulted in her commercial and critical success throughout the 1970s, and working again with British musician and producer Peter Asher. The album contained two tracks originally recorded for but never included on previous albums.

Linda Jarošová, Praha. 19 June at 14:13 ·. Some photos from last koncert

This album presents music from seven of these groups: Dendi, Nzakara, Gbaya, Banda-Linda, Banda-Dakpa, Aka Pygmies, and Ngbaka. The recordings range from war chants to lullabies, with songs for counting, thinking, hunting, and music for ceremonial dance. Album cover Tuesday! Designed by Ronald Clyne, this cover features a shadow puppet from Bali. These particular puppets would be used in wayang performances, where the puppet would be silhouetted against a lit, translucent white screen to tell many stories. From the album "Music of Indonesia. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Album Cover Tuesdays.

The Banda people (Dakpa) Little Suite for ongo-ngala. The Banda people (Dakpa) Suite for the mbaya ensemble. The Banda people (Dakpa) Dance of initiates "Brother, I am suffering". The Banda people (Dakpa) Damba lekpa, music for the mbaya ensemble.

Tracklist

Linda Music
A1 Linda Music For Ongo Ensemble, Eighteen Horns And A Pair Of Jingles
A2 Linda Music For Dancing, Gboyo Two Lenga
A3 Linda Mvrele Ensemble
Dakpa Music
B1 Dakpa Little Suite For Ongo-ngala
B2 Dakpa Dance Of Initiates "Brother, I Am Suffering"
B3 Dakpa Suite For The Mbaya Ensemble
B4 Dakpa Damba Lekpa, Music For Mbaya Ensemble

Credits

  • Narrator, Recorded By – Simha Arom

Notes

Recorded in the Central African Republic
Black Africa

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
UNES08043 Banda Central African Republic: Banda Polyphony ‎(CDr) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings UNES08043 US 2015
PC-1718 Linda / Dakpa Linda / Dakpa - Banda Polyphony ‎(LP, Album) Philips PC-1718 Japan 1976

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Comments

Kalrajas Kalrajas
If Albert Ayler was alive he would probably be playing for an Ongo Ensemble.
Nuadazius Nuadazius
listenening to that album tonight, we discussed the jazzy side of that album - I agree!