Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest

by AFRICAN

Overview

Colin Turnbull's and Francis S. Chapman's late-'50s field recordings are among the most captivating examples of traditional pygmy music. Folkways released two LPs of them, one devoted entirely to the Mbuti pygmies, the other giving a side apiece to the forest people and their villager neighbors. This CD collects all of the pygmy material from the earlier two volumes -- too much for one sitting, perhaps -- and presents them in pristine re-mastered form. The disc begins in a Mbuti camp where small groups sing rounds and play home-made flutes; moves to a Bantu village for raucous ritual observances; and then returns to the forest for private meditations on musical bow (a hunting bow plucked and held to the mouth like a jaw harp) and the fireside evening reveries of the sacred molimo. ~ Ted Greenwald

Product Details

Release Date:	07/13/1992
Label:	SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
UPC:	0093074040126

Tracks

1. In the Rainforest Approaching a Forest Camp
2. Elephant Hunting Song
3. Elephant-Hunt Song
4. Spear Song
5. Cries of Beaters, Signalling and Shouting
6. Honey-Gathering Song
7. Animal Dance Song
8. Flute Duet
9. Flute Solo
10. Slit-Gong Signalling
11. Mbuti Dance in Bantu Village
12. Lukembi and Voice
13. Lukembi (Mbuti)
14. Bachelor Duet With Lukembi
15. Musical Bow
16. Musical Sticks
17. Nkumbi Initiation Song
18. First Song of the Elima
19. Second Song of the Elima
20. First Molimo Fire Dance Song
21. Second Molimo Fire Dance Song
22. Molimo Song With Argument
23. First Molimo Song for Great Occasion
24. Second Molimo Song for Great Occasion
25. Molimo Song "Darkness Is Good"
26. Molimo Song of Devotion to the Forest

Album Credits

Technical Credits

Anthony Seeger   Reissue Supervisor,Reissue Coordination
Carol Hardy   Cover Design,Design
Matt Walters   Reissue Supervisor,Reissue Coordination
Colin Turnbull   Editing,Engineer,Producer,Liner Notes,Introduction
Alan Yoshida   Engineer,Remastering
Michelle Kisliuk   Editing,Reissue Producer,Reissue Compilation
Christopher Jerde   Reissue Assistant,Reissue Coordination,Reissue Supervision Assistant
Francis S. Chapman   Editing,Engineer,Producer
Edmund O'Reilly   Reissue Coordination