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Days Full of Sound - Life in the Rainforest
Mbenzele Pygmies
I Dischi di Angelica
745178459617
GEN 166801
745178459617
JAZZ
2
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The “Polyphonic singing of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa” was officially added to the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008, but four decades earlier the musicologist Simha Arom had already discovered the music of the Mbenga (Aka/Benzele), Baka and Mbuti (Efé) populations. He described their collective contrapuntal improvisations as being characterised by a level of polyphonic complexity that European music would only reach in the 14th century.
Starting from the 60s, when the records of the UNESCO Collection curated by Arom were released, Central African music has been internationally discovered, studied and used as a source of inspiration by composers such as Christian Wolff, György Ligeti, Steve Reich, Jon Hassell, and Herbie Hancock (with the famous opening track of the album Head Hunters), amongst others.
FORMAT | CD |
DISCS NUMBERS | 2 |
RECORDED | 0 |
LABEL CODE | 745178459617 |
STYLE | JAZZ |