Nigeria III - Igbo Music - Recorded by David W. Ames

Nigeria III - Igbo Music
Recorded by David W. Ames
Bärenreiter • Musicaphon - BM 30 L 2311 - P.1965



Side A

No. 1 Ikorodo Music 3'18
No. 2 Ikorodo Music 2'42
No. 3 Ikorodo Music 5'21
No. 4 Ikorodo Music 3'46
No. 5 Boasting Song 0'36
No. 6 Ekwe Masquerade Music 4'50
No. 7 Okobonyi Funerla Music 3'27

A-side total time 24'00

Side B

No. 8 Egara Music 2'20
No. 9 Raft Zither Music 6'14
No. 10 Wrestling Music 2'33
No. 11 Igede Eze Music 2'19
No. 12 Grinding Song 2'26
No. 13 Ogwume Music 5'00
No. 14 Moonlight Play Song 2'32


B-side total time 23'24

I am very happy to post this record as I know there are a few of you that has waited for it to arrive here. Well the wait is over and both the music and the documentation is great. I hope you will enjoy it! 

Now shall we move on to Sudan maybe? There are still many yet to be posted from this series! I am happy that finally all the editing comes to fruition. The Bärenreiters and the Ocoras are my biggest undertaking yet it seems, and soon enough I will also start posting more also from the first series of the Bärenreiters. I have been walking around the Tibet, India and Japan series like a cat around hot porridge. But do not despair! Soon it seems the temperature shall be right!  Those of you that have patiently waited especially for the India LPs. Well, I assure you, they will come! Both the grey ones and the green ones. They are ripped and ready but still needs a little cosmetic editing!

An ozo title holder

Keeper of the Ekwe shrine dancing

Arrival of the senior Ekwe masquerade

An Ikorodo masquerader

Arrival of the junior Ekwe masquerade

The Ikorodo association orchestra of Agulize village 1963

The Ikorodo association orchestra of Agulize village 1975

Four side-blown calabash horns used in Ikorodo orchestras

An Ikorodo masquerade dancer

Instruments used in the Ikorodo orchestra

Long open cylindrical drum used in Ikorodo orchestras

Dancing to Ikorodo music

Dancing to Ikorodo music

Age set chanting a boasting song

Arrival of the senior Ekwe masquerade with its drummer

Side-blown elephant tusk horn blown by Ezema Nwodo Eze

The Ekwe association band heralding the arrival of its masquerade

The junior Ekwe masquerade

with a member blowing elephant tusk horn

An end-blown notch flute

Blowing an end-blown notch flute for Okobonyi music

An Okobonyi ensemble performing at a second burial ceremony

Firing Dane guns while Okobonyi music is being performed

A raft zither

Johnson Ezenwoka playing a raft zither

An ensemble performing raft zither music at a second burial ceremony

Raft zither player with an Egara singer

Ensemble performing wrestling music.

Igede eze music performed by the people of Omo Ekwa village.

An Ogwume

Playing the Ogwume

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M.S. Subbulakshmi - Devotional Songs in 10 Languages

M.S. Subbulakshmi - Bhavan's LP - Devotional Songs in 10 Languages

EMI India - ECSD 3259 - P.1975

Side A

A01 Bhajare Yadu Natham - Sanskrit 4'03

A02 Hari maitho - Hindi 5'37

A03 Narayananu Nama Narayananu Nama - Gujarati 3'09

A04 Pathithoddharini Gange - Bengali 4'29

A05 Kendu Kandu - Malayalam 5'24

Side B

B01 Ishrate Katra - Urdu 7'10

B02 Hari Bola hari Bola - Marathi 3'10

B03 Yadu Vamsa Yadu Vamsa - Kannada 5'09

B04 Vasudeva Vasudeva - Telugu 3'22

B05 Nenjukku Neethi Nenjukku Neethi - Tamil 2'58

Radha Viswanathan, vocal support

V.V. Subramaniam, violin

Karaikudi R. Mani, mridangam

I cannot resists continuing to post M.S. Subbulaksmi's Devotional repertoire and this one is one of the first records I bought by M.S. Subbulakshmi. And like the good Arvind said before when discussing some of the songs presented here:

"It's very rare to come across a bhajan in Urdu, the language which evolved in the courts of the erstwhile princely state of Awadh, what is now Lucknow, in Uttar Pradesh. It's the language in which Ghazals are written, and often Qawwalis too, but listening to an Urdu bhajan is a real treat!

On this record there is also a very young Karaikudi R. Mani playing the mridangam, but after this and maybe, maybe just one more and then there will be Carnatic classical concerts and soon I will go back to mixing music from all over, there will be some more South East Asia, Oceania and some more following Deben Bhattachariya around. OK...

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Sulamangalam Sisters - Murugan Devotional Songs

Sulamangalam Sisters - Murugan Devotional Songs

EMI India S/33ESX 6031 - P.1970

Side A

A1 Sri Mahaganapathe

A2 Swararagasutha

Side B

B1 Panchashadpeedaroopini

B2 En Indha Mounam

B3 Arbuthamana pazhaniappa

B4 Kandan mel kaadal

B5 Nalamyavum tharuvai muruga

B6 Mamaduraiyil

I have little to add about the music of this record, except that it is one of the best Sulamangalam Sisters I have heard. A beautiful mix of Carnatic Classical and Carnatic Devotional "Filmi" songs. I wholeheartedly recommend it. And it makes me "triply" happy as it has a little story. It belongs to a very special batch of recordings. I wrote the following in one of my comments to one of the previous postings on Carnatic Devotional Music:

"As I have friends traveling to India that will for the first time see and stay in places I love and that they have been loving from a distance. They travel to meet with another wonderful friend and all this is because of music! I have over the last month on and off been thinking about how best to make this travel and congregation an auspicious one and as I wanted to be there myself but only can travel later in the year I was thinking of some way that I also could be part of their adventure and therefore we are all going to have this Carnatic spring!

Over the following days we shall see not only posts of my own records but also some contributions by my friends! There will be several more devotional albums and soon to follow, there is at least one more Sulamangalam Sisters!

(This post contains that very album!)

The record was spotted and secured by the good Arvind and sent over the great water and ripped and digitally fondled by good Costis with very little help from the lazy dog zwan but whose overseeing I am sure was crucial to the whole undertaking! This eventually led to these digital likenesses finding their way through the myriads of protocols on the internet to finally land with us here!

I am confident you will enjoy many of them!

It will be my great pleasure to be with you on your journey and to bring other travellers in music along with us!"

That is what I wrote, and what the Carnatic Spring postings mean, is that for the duration of my friends journey that starts today (on what numerological seems to be very special date 2011.02.22 and as I hope an auspicious one!) I will play mostly Carnatic music at home and burn incense for their safe passage and for the first week there will only be posts with Carnatic music here at Luobaniya!!

Thank you so much Costis for the rip and the photos made just before leaving and thank you Arvind for finding the records taking good care of them and passing them on to a good future!

I propose that we keep doing this "digital trinity offerings" later and on a more regular basis!

But to make it clear to everyone else, that are not specifically into Carnatic Devotional or Classical Music, you may rest assured I am not going to stop posting music from other traditions! There will be music interspersed in the course of posting from most all over the world. I may even go to Europe when it gets a bit warmer here. I still have not finished posting Deben Bhattacharya's field recordings but they will come, as will the Bärenreiters, Esperance, BAM, and all the others! I have not forgotten! I just have too many things I want to share with you at the same time. Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, African, South East Asia, they will all come back but now it is this glowing warming of the Carnatic Spring that will shine over all of you!

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