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AmbroseBierce (Ripper & Uploader) Inde Centrale - Traditions musicales des Gond VDE-Gallo VDE CD-618, 1990
India is the homeland for more than 40 million "tribals" -- aboriginals or indigenous peoples -- whose ancestors lived there before the Aryans arrived in approximately 1500 B.C. Many of these people live in the more inhospitable forests and mountain regions, or work as hunters or farmers; some have become "outcast" Hindus. There are about four or five million Gond who speak an unwritten Dravidian language, and this recording is primarily of the Gond who live in Bastar, the southernmost district of Madhya Pradesh. Many of their villages show characteristics of megalithic civilization, with menhir grave monuments and enormous stone slabs that serve as roofs and fences. There is a wide variety of songs presented here: a drumming "Rain Dance"; the fascinating "L'Escorte de la Mariée" ("Bridal Escort") for antiphonal chorus of friends and family wishing her farewell as she makes a strange noise like weeping; the joyous "Pani Mali Gala Jai" ("The Rainshowers Pour Down"); and a heartfelt "Ode to Bastar" sung in elegant Halbi by a famous poet met on a deserted mountain road on the hottest day of the year. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny
TRACK LISTINGS 01. Danse de la pluie 02. Danse des cornes de bison 03. Cérémonie de chasse 04. Retour des chasseurs 05. L’escorte de la mariée 06. Les conseils de la mariée 07. Affection 08. Mari Rosana 09. Conseils pour la vie conjugale 10. Fleurs pour Sarie 11. Ghor Saheb 12. Chant de récolte 13. Chanson comique 14. Des poissons à vendre 15. Improvisation relo 16. Danse instrumentale 17. Musique de fête instrumentale 18. Ode au Bastar 19. Pani mali gala jai 20. Jhaliana, jhalipora 21. Ye jolire 320 kbps mp3, including full booklet scans (back inlay missing) Download Part One Download Part Two
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