Tuesday 10 January 2017

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Monday 9 January 2017

The Last Five Years

Anarchestra: 'um . . . yeah, so I did this'

Anarchestra is an orchestra of over two hundred unique musical instruments built (with a few exceptions) by Alex Ferris (1954-) an American musician, composer, and theorist, to explore alternative timbres, tunings, and methods of playing

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Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam

William Dalrymple

Junkie Culture Or Just Junk?? (books and bookmen March 1963)

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Via Jeffrey Ball

Music in the World of Islam - 1: The Human Voice

"...In 1976, 'Music In the World Of Islam' is released, a 6-LP box set of recordings by Jean Jenkins and Poul Rovsing Olsen. Jean Jenkins, Appalachian banjo player, ethnomusicologist, and curator at the Horniman Museum, London, wrote this in her sleeve note: "The human voice is the foundation of all music within the Islamic world. Indeed, in some areas it is the only type of music which exists." Her recording of "Abu Zeluf", sung by Dunya Yasin, a girl from a northern mountain village in Lebanon, is sampled for two tracks on Eno & Byrne's 'My Life In the Bush of Ghosts'..."

(David Toop - from 'My Life In The Bush of Ghosts' site here.)

Review of the complete series of recordings from 'The Wire' here.

Tracklisting:

1. Unknown - Recitation Of Verses Of The Qu'ran (Al-Ateuf, near Ghardala, Algeria)
(This track is used by Brian Eno and David Byrne for their track called 'Qu'ran' from the album 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts')
2. Unknown - Dhikr (A Sufi Ceremony: Fayoum Oasis, Egypt)
3. Habibola Halika - Houri (Secular Vocal Musci: Sandandaj, Kurdistan, Iran)
4. Unknown - Bedouin Wedding Songs (South of Wadi Musa, Jordan)
5. Jabr Bin Husein - Ghazal, Or Love Song (Tarif, Abu Dahbi)
6. Amir Mohammed - Gurdum Gurdum (Love Song: Daulatabad, North Of Balkh Afghanistan)
7. Rasha'ida - Song At The Feast After Ramadan (Near Nagfa, Eritrea, Ethiopia)
8. Unknown - Haddadi (Muharraq, Bahrain)
9. Wasimxzama Khan Naseri - Kavali (A Devotional Song: Hyderabad, Deccan, India)
10. Dunya Yasin - Abu Zeluf (Beirut, Lebanon)
(Used by Brian Eno and David Byrne for their tracks called 'Regiment' and 'The Carrier' from the album 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts'. Also sampled by New Order in 'Evil Dust')
11. Unknown - Leader / Chorus Song (Jijiga, Harar Province, Ethiopia)
12. Mehein Fin Baqid & Dahai Fin Baqid / Hateim Atiya Khalil Sayed - Radha / Ga's (Bedouin Song, Sharjah, UAE; Ga's - Fayoum, Egypt)
13. Unknown - Love Song (Aqcha, Afghanistan)
14. Aqi Pishak - Tahlil (Baghdad, Iraq)

The Human Voice

Eno: The Lost '70s Pop Album (Unofficial Compilation)

1. Seven Deadly Finns [single, 1974]
2. The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) [single, 1975]
3. Big Day [from Phil Manzanera's "Diamond Head" 1975]
4. Miss Shapiro                   "
5. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch [live, with The Winkies 1974]
6. Totalled [live, with The Winkies 1974 - a radically different version of this song would appear on 1975's "Another Green World" album as "I'll Come Running"]
7. Fever [Peggy Lee cover; live, with The Winkies 1974]
8. Baby's On Fire [live, with Kevin Ayers, John Cale "June 1, 1974"]
9. Third Uncle [w/Phil Manzanera's band "801 Live" 1976]
10. The Fat Lady Of Limbourg "
11. Wolf [from "Peter And The Wolf" various artists inc Phil Collins, narrator: Viv Stanshell, 1975]
12. Wolf and Duck                   "
13. Wolf Stalks                        "
14. Luneburg Heath [w/German group Harmonia featuring Michael Rother from Neu!, and Cluster, from "Harmonia 76," unreleased until 1997]
15. Broken Head [from "After The Heat" w/Cluster, 1978, initially a somewhat hard-to-find import-only album in the US]
16. The Belldog                       "
17. Tzima N'arki                      "
18. R.A.F. [w/Snatch, "King's Lead Hat" b-side, 1978]
19. Qu'ran [w/David Byrne, from first pressings of their album "My Life In The Bush of Ghosts," recorded 1979, released 1981]

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