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The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. 1: Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48 (CD)

By: Various Artists
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DISC 1 for The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. 1: Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48 (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Jubilee Anthem - Eleja Choir (Nigeria)
2   Fiorassio - Effisio Melis (Sardinia)
3   Techudo Techudiessa - Savelli Walevitch (Russia)
4   Kapirigna - Fonseka & Party (Ceylon)
5   Jat Song - Bhoora Singh & Party (Rajahstan)
6   Oye Mi Coro - Septeto Matamoros (Cuba)
7   Dance Song - (Romania)
8   Lo'i Song Nui - Hoang-Vuy (Vietnam)
9   Selska Ratschentitza - Sephanya Penchevya (Macedonia)
10   Upa-Upa - Les Tamaru (Society Islands)
11   Ma Thama Zinek - Raoul Journo (Morocco)
12   Angihambe - Zwabesho Sibisi (South Africa)
13   Ise-No-Umi - Imperial Houshold Orchestra (Japan)
14   Gungru Tarang - Master Manahar Barve (India)
15   Te Quiero Bilbaina - Triki-Triki (The Basque)
16   Byggnan - Eric Sahlstrom (Sweden)
17   A Europaische Kolomyka - Raderman-Beckerman Orchestra (Yiddish)
18   Nie Smuccie Sie Tatry - Goralska Orkiestra (Poland)
19   Hill And Gully Ride/Mandeville Road - Lord Composer (Jamaica)
20   Medina - Haile, Ighigou et.al. (Abyssinia)
21   Alegrias - La Nina De Los Peines (Andalucia)
22   Naidasay Toy Pusoc - Duetto Pamolinao (Visayan Islands)
23   Isa Lei - Andi Thakambau (Fiji)
 
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Review

Musician (3/96, p.94) - "...collect[s] field recordings from around the globe waxed at a time when the twentieth century had barely begun to intrude on indigenous musics..."
Village Voice (2/20/96) - Tied for #2 on the Compilations list of Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Title Note

Includes liner notes by Pat Conte.

Digitally remastered from original 78s by Richard Nevins

Of all the recent excavation projects inspired by our voracious musical culture, none is more fascinating than Pat Conte's SECRET MUSEUM series for Yazoo. Till now, a Western listener's familiarity with ethnic music from the distant past has depended on unsexy field recordings of relatively recent vintage, produced in a spirit of near-scientific inquiry by anthropologically minded musicologists. When the commercial record business really began to expand in the late '20s however, just about every national style of music was sought out and captured for a growing marketplace. This was true "world music," dressed in its Sunday best perhaps as performed by ambitious locals, but still more vital than the academic, folklorist approach that followed.

Just as Harry Smith compiled early commercial blues and country records for his monumentally influential ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC, so Conte has gathered even rarer 78s from all over the globe. Thanks to excellent remastering, we can hear vividly how an ensemble sounded in India or Japan more than a half-century ago or a klezmer orchestra right before the Nazis destroyed that bit of local culture. It's like owning your own time machine.

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