Various Artists - Ravi's Afro-indian Project - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The area designated by the vague term 'Upper Amazon' is actually incredibly extensive. The great Amazon system drains three million square miles of territory, or approximately half the South American continent. Some of it's most remote tributaries, fed by melting glaciers in the Andes, originate less than eighty miles from the Pacific coast. Others extend upward into the highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This vast area, flanking the eastern slopes of the Andean chain, embraces a bewildering number of Indian tribes, an almost unbelievable number of unrelated languages, and a series of tropical forest cultures that range from exceedingly simple and primitive to highly sophisticated and complex... Harry Tschopik, Jr. Album Tracks 1. Fiesta Music 2. Fiesta Drum Music 3. Social Dance Music 4. Traveling Music 5. Girl's Puberty Rite 6. Public Work Music 7. Social Dance Music 8. Work Song 9. Welcoming Drum Music 10. War Song 11. Dance for Adolescent Girl 12. Lullaby 13. War Music 14. Drinking Music 15. Fiesta Dance Music 16. Fiesta Dance Music 17. Game Lure Whistle 18. Social Dance Music 19. Fiesta Drum Music 20. Social Dance Music 21. Social Dance Music 22. Fiesta Music 23. Public Work Music 24. Animal Sacrifice Music 25. Funeral Music 26. Fiesta Drum Music

A selection of powerful pieces from the historical Amha Records catalogue Ayaléw Mèsfin, Gétatchèw Kassa and Sèyfou Yohannes, and other artists as yet unreleased or hardly known in the West. Bonus tracks two pieces by the young Mulatu Astatqé, recorded in the early 60s and two pieces by The Ashantis, a Kenyan band based in Addis Abeba, which was very influent in the early 70s.' Album Tracks 1. M Tech D RSH [When Am I Going to Reach There?] 2. Ham T Gnaw 3. L N Antchi Bitcha N SH [You Are the Only One for Me] 4. Men w B G R Begn [I Could Have Done Without It] 5. B y Les Nab Tesh 6. En y w D Dkwat 7. S w Endayhon y LL M 8. Ter Djew N B R 9. Qondjo Ledj Nat 10. Ber Anbar S B R Lewo [He Consummated the Marriage] 11. L B N Sheweshew [My Panicked Heart] 12. Yag R DJ Gna 13. Y K Rmo S w [A Man of Experience and Wisdom] 14. Mariy Marw L la 15. TCH R Qa [O Moon] 16. H D TCH Gara Zura 17. Assiyo B LL Ma 18. N FSH N SH 19. Come on and Do It 20. I Wanna Do My Thing

This collection of Indian music from West Bengal in the east, Haryana in the north, Kerla in the south, and Rajastan from western India represent the product of several centuries of a flourishing musical tradition. Whether a sacred melody or a snake charming tune, each of these songs feature intricate drum patterning and a unique instrumentation which can only be expected in a country where music is a gift of the gods. Album Tracks 1. Folk Song from West Bengal 2. Folk Song from Haryana 3. Tamil Folk Song 4. A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody 5. Religious Song from Kerla 6. Sanai Gath 7. Rajastan Folk Song 8. Folk Song from South India 9. Folk Song from South India