AUSTRALIA - Songs of the Aborigines and Music of Papua, New Guin

S t a r i n a r T o r r e n t s - M u s i c O f O u r A n c e s t o r s Shamanic, Tribal, Ritual, Sacred and Indigenous Music Australia - Songs of the Aborigines and Music of Papua, New Guinea (1963) collector: Wolfgang Laade originally released on LP as Lyrichord LLST-73318 recorded: 1963 possibly out of print Field recordings by Wolfgang Laade, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Zurich, sponsored by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Australia is a collection of thirty-six songs, twenty-nine of them Australian and the last seven from Papua New Guinea. The music is arranged in blocks, with all twenty-two of the tracks from the Cape York Peninsula gummed together in a single droning chunk, followed by the livelier, noisier Elcho Island section and then a varied sampling of Papua New Guineans. This is sound practice if you are an ethnomusicologist, but to a casual listener it cries out for some editorial interference. Leaven Cape York with Elcho Island. Set those feathery, hesitant Cape voices bouncing against the didjeridu and clap-sticks of the Djadbangari Dance Song (track 23). Follow the shy tobacco-tin drumming of the Women's Wungka Dance Song with track twenty-five's bold animal impersonations. Scatter the Papua New Guinean songs through the rest. And please stop spelling Papua New Guinea with a comma. It looks odd. Here's a problem though: before you mixed the songs together you would first have to change the sound quality of Wolfgang Laade's field recordings to match the cleaner tones of the tracks from the Institute. The Cape York recordings are particularly muddy, and even the superior pieces from Elcho would sit badly next to, say, the Explorer series that Nonesuch is currently re-releasing. One comes away with the impression that Lyrichord wanted simply to fill a disc and snatched up whatever they could find without being too discriminating. This is bourne out by the notes inside the CD cover, which look as if they have been copied, unchanged, from two different sources with two different styles of prose. Australia: Songs of the Aborigines and Traditional Music of Papua, New Guinea has its moments, and the last section is a handy, quick overview of a variety of Papuan traditional music from the Daru area in the south, but, taken as a whole, the compilation is interesting rather than enjoyable, pay attention to: 23 - Djadbangari Dance Song 'East Wind' 24 - Karidyeri Dance Song 25 - Didjeridu Solo a Trial And a Crying Child 26 - Didjeridu Solo a Big Truck on the Mission 27 - Bunggul Dance Song 'Seagull' 28-29 - Bunggul Dance Song 'Spider' There's Wiryi on yirdaki, considered to be best yirdaki player on Elcho Island at the time. Quality: 256Kbps + cover EARTHMUSIC.WORDPRESS

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