Indianmusik Från Colombia

Indian music from Colombia (album title in translation) A1-A6 recorded 1966. A7-A10 recorded 1970. B1-B7 recorded 1963 and 1968. B8-B10 recorded 1966. B11 recorded 1972. B12 recorded 1968. Some translated track info from sleeve: A1. Medicine rite. Wind players accompanying the kantule [medicine man/chief] blowing smoke on the patient. A2. Eagle bone flute. Played by the kantule. A3-A4. Puberty rite. Bamboo flutes with mouthpieces made of wing quill, played in pairs. A5-A6. Puberty rite. A7. Song dialogue with maracas. The respondent can be heard faintly in the background. A8. Song dialogue between a man and a woman. A9. Deer bone flute. A10. Dopa festival. At the beginning, the sound of the grinding of the burnt piece of liana [banisteria caapi] into a vision-inducing snuff is being heard. B1-B2. Children’s songs, the latter sung during a thunderstorm. B3. Musical bow. The sound is very low and can only be heard from a few meters away. B4. Song sung by the family one night inside the hut. B5. Axe flute (atúnsa), a long and thick bamboo flute with mouthpiece made of wing quill, fastened with a large, axe-shaped lump of wax. Played at corn harvest. B6-B7. From a funeral party. Songs accompanied by stomping, battle games and flute music. B8. Blind musician in Bogotá playing a drum, maracas and pan pipes. The music is a remnant of the 16th century Muisca culture. B9. Deer dance. Deer head flute and an instrument made of turtle shell. B10. Wooden flute. B11. Music at harvest festival. Nocturnal dance. Two 160 cm bamboo flutes are blown in pairs at the entrance of the maloka [communal house]. In the background the sound of the Vaupés river is heard. B12. Wooden flute and maracas.