Uncle David's on R3 this evening talking about music he's collected from across the world. Looks interesting...didn't know he'd worked with Alan Lomax.
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Interesting JC? They should pop him behind the mike to present World on 3 from now on...
Los Trios Paraguayos
Margaret Barry:
The Copper Family
Sierre Leone balange
Indonesian gamelan
Bamboo flute:
Dayak
New guinea porters singing
Paraguayan Harp:
Queen Salote's song from Tonga
Tongan nose flute
Turtle calling (possibly bogus)
Shark calling
Pentecost Island land diving (with singing)
Madagascar traditional instrument as used in La Retour
The didgeridoo of Australia
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Thanks a great deal, Global. I really enjoyed the programme. He's choosing the guest playlist in the forthcoming edition of the 'Songlines' CD. The story of Margaret Barry was crackin'. Lomax clearly knew all the tricks to get a hold of folk in those pre-global communication days!Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post
Interesting JC? They should pop him behind the mike to present World on 3 from now on...
Los Trios Paraguayos
Margaret Barry:
The Copper Family
Sierre Leone balange
Indonesian gamelan
Bamboo flute:
Dayak
New guinea porters singing
Paraguayan Harp:
Queen Salote's song from Tonga
Tongan nose flute
Turtle calling (possibly bogus)
Shark calling
Pentecost Island land diving (with singing)
Madagascar traditional instrument as used in La Retour
The didgeridoo of Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YM5nohSh6c
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That goes for me as well.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Maybe I should have, but I did not know that David Attenborough was as expert at presenting a recording of an old-come-all-ye as he was at showing the details of a gasping lizard on a rock; not to mention how interesting he made a good variety of music from locations where he filmed. Global is right - he could be behind a radio microphone.
Apart from that he has introduced me to Margaret Barry, which gave me a reason to find out a little more about her, including her recording of many of the tunes I've known since childhood. One of these I used to be irrationally proud of, since I lived in the town mentioned, but had never heard a proper version sung all the way through until now. I always wondered who was Martha, the Flower of Sweet Strabane.
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I'm sure David A wouldn't mind us taking a short swerve off the main highway....here's a link to the Alan Lomax recordings. There is a wealth of material by Margaret Barry, songs and interviews. This is a particularly fine, simple and powerful version of Gra Mo Chroi, recorded in Alan Lomax's flat on the 11th of March 1953.
this general link gives 8 pages of Gaelic songs by a wide variety of performers of different style and approach. A lot of listening there...
There is a ton of material from 30 different countries. I've found some of it is categorised incorrectly - for example, Violeta Parra (Chilean) pops up as being English because the song was recorded in his flat in London.Comment
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That's extraordinary.Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post
Interesting JC? They should pop him behind the mike to present World on 3 from now on...
Los Trios Paraguayos
Margaret Barry:
The Copper Family
Sierre Leone balange
Indonesian gamelan
Bamboo flute:
Dayak
New guinea porters singing
Paraguayan Harp:
Queen Salote's song from Tonga
Tongan nose flute
Turtle calling (possibly bogus)
Shark calling
Pentecost Island land diving (with singing)
Madagascar traditional instrument as used in La Retour
The didgeridoo of Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YM5nohSh6c
I'm lost for words!
An absolutely brilliant programme which needs to be placed in the R3 archive for all time at once!Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Loved it!
I especially enjoyed the absence of things hunting other things down and wildly pulling them apart!
(Arguably Margaret Barry's influence can be heard in Van's "She Moved Through The Fair" and "My Lagan Love")Last edited by Lat-Literal; 04-01-17, 09:27.Comment
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JC - meant to ask you about the land diving. Practised on the Vanuatu Islands, to which I dimly recall you had some connection a while back???
When I say 'practiced' I'm not actually sure how you *do* practice.... might lead to some spectacular lumps on the noggin.Comment
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Actually Global, I had a re-listen to the Attenborough programme in the car and was remembering that when I was a kid I recall seeing the land divers on the wee black and white Bush (TV) and thinking that I was so happy that I hadn't been brought up on Pentecost Island on the New Hebrides (as they called it back then) - it petrified me. I liked DA's description as Stone Age Bunjee. How strange that my wee sis lives in Port Vila in Vanuatu these days. But Pentecost Island was the one that produced that absolutely excellent String Band record that I sent to MAK and that she played a couple of tracks from a few years back. Couldn't find a track from it on YT - such a happy record, but here's a flavour:Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post
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That's a lovely post JC - and any video produced by Numpty Productions always gets my vote. I was waiting for an amazing bottle solo from the feller on the right, but it never happened. Maybe next time...Anyway, another cheerful song for 2017. We're gonna need them. Thanks.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostActually Global, I had a re-listen to the Attenborough programme in the car and was remembering that when I was a kid I recall seeing the land divers on the wee black and white Bush (TV) and thinking that I was so happy that I hadn't been brought up on Pentecost Island on the New Hebrides (as they called it back then) - it petrified me. I liked DA's description as Stone Age Bunjee. How strange that my wee sis lives in Port Vila in Vanuatu these days. But Pentecost Island was the one that produced that absolutely excellent String Band record that I sent to MAK and that she played a couple of tracks from a few years back. Couldn't find a track from it on YT - such a happy record, but here's a flavour:
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Originally posted by Padraig View Post
This is a rare film of a dance in Strabane in 1951. The band was the local Clipper Carlton, in its time the first and most famous showband in Ireland. I lived there until 1953 and I knew all the players, most (all) of them now dead, and I can't tell you how it felt to see them again like this. In 1951 I was not allowed to go to dances so the crowd attending are mostly strangers to me, but not all. Sharp flashes of memory accompany the parade of couples and faces, and I did recognise a newly married couple whom I knew then and can name.
I'm just sorry that we could not hear the band, but I suppose that in 1951 the technology was fairly new. It wasn't a bad effort all the same - at least I appreciate it greatly. I desperately hope that you can say -'Yes. It belongs on this thread'.Comment
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Padraig, when I was a wee one, Raidió Teilifís Éireann was a morning radio event...I think my Mum liked to hear the Irish accents. So I got used to the odd bit of Irish Showband. Over the last couple of months I became rather transfixed by Paul Durcan's poem of tragedy 'In Memory: The Miami Showband - Massacred 31 July 1975', made all the more poignant when you see the joy on the faces of the 'Clipper Carlton Showband' and their patrons making merry.Originally posted by Padraig View Post
'Beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things'.Comment
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Thanks John for seeing more clearly than I did then, what the music of the showbands contributed to people's lives. If the Clippers were the first of the breed, the Miami were the last.Comment
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Thanks John from me for pointing out this programme which I listened to 'live' on the radio over Christmas. I thought it fascinating...especially the Australian aboriginal music at the end, put so well in context by DA. (I didn't comment at the time as I was having a couple of weeks' detox from the Forum!)Comment
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How long before we get here?Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post
There's not much music in it, filmed in Ballycroy, and the quality is not so great but it's that era. From the story by William TrevorComment
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