Music of Oceania; Papua Niugini: The Middle Sepik

Music of Oceania: Papua Niugini: The Middle Sepik

Bärenreiter • Musicaphon - BM 30 SL 2700 - P. 1980?

Recordings 1962-1973, commentary, photographs, and map by Robert MacLennan

Fred Gerrits, Gordon Spearritt, Meinhard and Gisela Schuster, Jörg Hauser

Side A

A01 Palparo - Two transverse flutes (Chambri Lake) 1'25

A02 Weikamp - Two transverse flutes (Chambri Lake) 3'20

A03 Mouth-bow (Manumbu) 1'10

A04 Porporokago - transverse flutes & hourglass drum (Chambri Lake) 2'25

A05 Koruimbang - Man calling through pipe (Iatmul) 2'25

A06 Kabiragwa - Single transverse flutes & coconut shells 1'30

A07 Panpipes (Sawos) 1'30

A08 Panpipes (Sawos) 1'35

A09 Suai & Kwanji - Two slit-drums (Iatmul) 5'15

A10 Numburagwa - Two transverse flutes (Iatmul) 2'20

Side B

B01 Lulukvia - Seven transverse flutes & hourglass drum (Iatmul) 0'46

B02 Kwainkwainkwain - Seven transverse flutes & hourglass drum (Iatmul) 1'55

B03 Jew's harp (Sawos) 2'00

B04 Malimalila - Men singing through mai-pipes (Iatmul) 0'45

B05 Krugambo - Two transverse flutes (Iatmul) 3'50

B06 Musical bow - (Sawos) 1'30

B07 Samsam - Two transverse flutes (Iatmul) 1'25

B08 Kwaru - Two transverse flutes (Sawos) 0'55

B09 Two wooden trumpets (Iatmul) 0'25

B10 Kutagwawari - Single transverse flute (Sawos) 0'35

B11 Bruwagen & Mbangu - Two slit-drums (Iatmul) 2'30

B12 Branganja - Two transverse flutes (Iatmul) 4'00

Tracks A1,A2,A4,B4,B7,B9 Recorded 1962

Tracks A5,A6,B5,B12 Recorded 1964

Tracks A3,A9,B1,B2,B11 Recorded 1972

Tracks A7,A8,A10, B3,B8,B10 recorded 1963

Track B6 Recorded 1973

Time for some more Bärenreiters. The following posts will be field recordings from Papua Niugini. Most of these recordings were made in the sixties and seventies but not published until the eighties. I will present some more information about the recordings, but there is plenty to read in the documentation that accompanies each LP. There are 10-20 pages for each volume with tightly printed explanatory notes in both german and english. These are to me extremely precious records as I had had no other previous chance to go to Papua Niugini before heard them. Some of these tunes and songs and the environment of wind, crickets, cikadas, harvesting sago, childrens voices, dogs, and other sounds of the ambiance makes listening a very close and intimate experience. I hope you will enjoy them as much as me and there are at leats four more to come!

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