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altsounding's Podcast
by Dave M
altsoundings podcast offers a diverse range of soundscapes & performances from Sth Asia, SE Asia & Australia----------------------------------------------------------I've recently been in long term travel mode ... busy documenting in India, Nth Vietnam & Indonesia. Much new material will be uploaded over the next few weeks & months ... including Australian performances & soundscapes. All recordings & images are by Dave M unless credited to someone else.-------------------------------------------------------NEW: This site is reverting to 'basic' ... as I'm now integrating both sound & image into my own website domain - http://altsoundings.com
Episodes
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2011 ... Hanoi: Temple of Literature folk music performance - clapophone
Bamboo Clapophone performance - 1.6mins This beautifully mellow sounding instrument is played by gently clapping in front of the open-ended bamboo tubes. In Australia & elsewhere in the 'west' this instrument is usually known as a thongophone ... due to it being played in a rather less dignified...
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2010 ... Assam: 2 Tea Plantation workers perform Krishna devotional song
Krishna devotional song - 4.75mins
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2011 ... Flores - Kampung Beiboso acappela
Another Ngada traditional acappela - 4.7mins Led by Pak Nardus & his son Nikolas to the left & Armin to the right ... & supported by a chorus of family & friends. Recorded at night during a 3 day ceremony for Kampung Beiboso near Bajawa hill town in Flores. The ceremony, involving the sacrifice…
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2011 ... Hanoi: Temple of Literature folk music performance - xylophone
Bamboo Xylophone performance - 1.8mins Almost a thousand years ago the 'Temple of Literature' was Vietnams first University. Recently restored it's a showcase of Vietnams cultural history & a homage to it's early graduates. In one of it's pavilions ... traditional folk instrument performances are...
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2011 ... Hoi An: Vietnamese folk music performance featuring violin
Folk music performance - 5.8mins Featuring Mr Pandungon (?) on Violin playing The story of the harvest day. The twice daily concerts are at the ancient 'Hoi An Performance House of Traditional Arts'. It's in the entrance hall to to the 'Hoi An Artcraft Manufactural Workshop'' ... so there's a lot...
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2010 ... Kishna plays Ravan-Hatta
Rajasthani desert folk tune - 5.5mins For most of the year you can find Kishna and / or his brother Neru around Gangaur Ghat in Udaipur playing Rajasthani folk tunes from the desert on their rawan-hatta's. These instruments normally have one main horsehair string and a longer steel string with up...
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2010 ... Neru plays Ravan-Hatta
Rajasthani desert folktune - 3.3mins For most of the year you can find Neru and/or his brother Kishna on or near Gangaur Ghat in Udaipur playing Rajasthani folktunes from the desert on their ravan-hattas. These instruments normally have one main horsehair string and a longer steel string with up…
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2010 ... Shariq Parvez plays Raga Jhinjhoti on his meditation guitar
From Udaipur in Rajasthan - 10.5mins Shariq has created a new hybrid musical instrument that fuses the best qualities of both the slide-guitar and the traditional Indian sarod. Until he hits on a great name for this new instrument ... Shariq calls it a meditation guitar. There are 2 self…
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2002 ... Sitok Srengenge live @ 'Bar Open'
An evening with Sitok - 87mins Leading Indonesian poet Sitok Srengenge presents his poems in bahasa Indonesia ... alternating with Harry Aveling, a prolific translator of Indonesian poetry and prose, providing english readings. One of the published poems later in the evening was read by Geoff Fox...
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2008 ... Voice, Violin & Cello
Contemporary OZ music live from the Boite World Music Cafe - 9mins This is the only performance not fully improvised from a night of improvised music titled 'silouettes scampering' at the famous Boite World Music Cafe in Fitzroy Melbourne Australia. This moving piece was improvised around a...
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2010 ... Orang Ngada Acappela Group singing the final take of another seuaze
Singing "the old music from long ago" - 6.4mins Florian Lengu and the old women take the lead here ... with the rest of the group singing as chorus.
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2010 ... Orang Ngada Acappela Group in Kampung Borani
Singing "the old music from long long ago" - 16.6mins 4 ancient, funny and feisty women from Kampung Borani near Bajawa hill town in Flores [Indonesia] grapple with recalling all the words to "the old songs from long long ago". I was informed that there are 2 types of such song forms ... Teke for...
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1990 ... Wayang Kulit/Shadow puppet music Live
Saraswati Festival at Batuan Temple in Bali - 31mins Originally went to Batuan to hear a friend of a friend, Marcu, and his ASTI Gamelan ensemble at the Batuan Banjar for the Saraswati Festival. Soon I was told there was a leading Dalang Master preparing for a Wayang Kulit/Shadow Puppet…
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2011 ... Morning Raga Meditation-Kathakali Centre
North Indian Morning Raga - 49mins Recorded live at the Kathakali Centre, an excellent performance venue in Fort Kochi Kerala. Each morning at 8am the Centre provides a 1 hour meditation session with sitar and tabla performing a Nth Indian morning raga. Sitar: Basil Tabla: Ravish Shet
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1990 ... Evening junior gamelan practice, Yamaha and barking night dogs
Balinese evening soundscape - 3.5mins Walking home from the incredible Ubud night market [ sadly no longer in existence ] --- as I arrived at the Banjar Kalah Corner just past Peliatan, I heard the sounds presented here. Continuing down the track towards the rice paddies and my losmen, a passing...
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2011 ... Tabla, Voice & Harmonium
'Bhajan' - North Indian devotional music - 76mins Recorded live at the Kathakali Centre, an excellent venue in Fort Kochi, Kerala. Singer: Raghuraj R Shet Harmonium: Satish Tabla: Ravish Shet
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1990 ... Bamboo bombadom, suling & drum ensemble
Ngada kampungs music contest - 8.5mins Bajawa is the main town of the Orang Ngada Region. It's a hill-town [1,100 metres] in SW Central Flores ... one of the Eastern islands between Bali and Timor. Almost all of the Ngada people are either animist Catholics or to a lesser extent animist…
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1990 ... 'War drums' percussion group
Ngada kampungs music contest - 15.5mins 'War drums' percussion group competing in a fierce music contest during August 17 1990 Indonesian Independence Day celebrations on a large soccer-field in Bajawa hill town [SW Central Flores - between Bali & Timor].
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altsoundings podcast offers a diverse range of soundscapes & performances from Sth Asia, SE Asia & Australia----------------------------------------------------------I've recently been in long term travel mode ... busy documenting in India, Nth Vietnam & Indonesia. Much new material will be uploaded over the next few weeks & months ... including Australian performances & soundscapes. All recordings & images are by Dave M unless credited to someone else.-------------------------------------------------------NEW: This site is reverting to 'basic' ... as I'm now integrating both sound & image into my own website domain - http://altsoundings.com
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