Binali Selman

 

BINALI SELMAN 1

Harika, no date, 58

Binali Selman was a well known Turkish  zurna player. He was born in 1931 in Bayburt and started his musical career in 1954 after winning a competition organized by Radio Istanbul. He could play all sorts of tradtional instruments including the ney. He had been part of the folk orchestra in Radio Istanbul for thirty years. He worked with big names of Turkish folk/pop scene like Cem Karaca, Barış Manço and Okay Temiz. During the eighties he was awarded the title of world champion zurna player in India. He died in 1996.
This tape is one of many tapes and LPs he recorded; Some of the tunes are availbale on different albums. Seven tracks are mentionned on the cover but there are eight tunes on side A. Side B has nine tracks supposedly but there are eight tracks really. Hope you can find out by yourself what is what.
The davul player is anonymous.

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Berbères du Maroc

 

Berbères du Maroc - "ahwach"

Berbers of Morocco

collection C.N.R.S. Musée de l'Homme

Le Chant du Monde, 1979, LDX 74705

 Bernard Lortat-Jacob who made these recordings in 1972 and 1975 is a well known French ethnomusicologist who also worked on Sardinia.
This album is an impressive example of one of the most representative musical form of the Ayt Mgun Berbers, among others, in which the whole community is involved. Ahwach is a generic term for a great variety of dances though. Each side presents one type of ahwach in its entirety.
The booklet is quite complete and informative. 

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Muhammad Hamud al-Harithi

 

MUḤAMMAD ḤAMŪD AL-ḤARITHĪ / AL-SHAWQ AʽYᾹNĪ

LOVE HAS EXHAUSTED ME

Sawt al-Jazira, no date, GAZ. 11

Al-Harithi  is a great singer and ud player from Sana'a. This tape is a good example of his talents. There are six songs but the two first songs on side A are together; the same about the two last songs on side B.
He's backed mainly by a sahn player which is a large copper plate giving a special effect to the songs.
Al-Harithi was one of Jean Lambert's informants for his work on the music in Sana'a. He wrote ''la musique de l'âme'' with a CD included. Al-Harithi was also recorded on the volume 3 of ''Péninsule arabique : le sowt, musique des villes'' by the prestigious label VDE-Gallo based in Geneva.
I posted another tape of his in January 2022.

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Féerie Sud-Marocaine

 

FEERIE SUD-MAROCAINE

tout le folklore musical pré-saharien recueilli et présenté par JEAN MAZEL

SOUTH MOROCCAN  ENCHANTMENT

 all the pre-Saharan musical folklore collected and presented by JEAN MAZEL

Philips, 1955, N 76.048 R 

Jean Mazel was a French writer and cineaste who also recorded in the field especially in Morocco. This album was the first one he ever published and got an award ''le Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque Français''. He reads his own text of introduction to the brief musical examples. In spite of their short duration the musical parts are interesting with predominance of singing.
I think that this kind of presentation was necessary at the time because this album was aimed at the general public with no knowledge of Moroccan musical culture. The text is quite literary at times but the music is quite authentic.
Text in French.
Side A : from ''Introduction'' to ''le grand Crescendo'' part of ''le Grand Haouache de Telouet''; the rest on side B.
The musical parts of this album are now part of a CD with other recordings by Mazel (free download on Bandcamp).

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CHANTS MONGOLS ET BOURIATES

 

CHANTS MONGOLS ET BOURIATES

Enregistrements de Roberte  Hamayon

COLLECTION MUSEE DE L'HOMME

MONGOLIAN AND BURYAT SONGS

Recordings by R. Hamayon

Vogue, 1973, LDM 30138

The French label Vogue was founded in 1947 by Léon Cabat and Charles Delaunay. A very eclectic label with Jazz music, popular music, opera, Soviet archives and some ethnic music like this album which was made in partnership with the Musée de l' Homme in Paris.
Roberte Hamayon was born in 1939 and is an anthropologist; her research focuses, among other things, on the shamanic model, the traditional religious substrate of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and Mongolia. After a first stay in Mongolia and  in the Republic of Buryatia in Eastern Siberia in 1967, she participated in the creation of the Centre for Mongolian and Siberian Studies in 1969, which she directed until 2007.
The present recordings were made in 1967, 1968 and 1970 in Central Mongolia and near the Lake Baikal in Buryatia.
Side A is about five solo songs and two songs with morin xuur : love song, in praise of the horse or the camel, hunting stories etc...
Side B has three more Mongolian types of vocal pieces, including an imitation of the flute ''with the nose'' and one flute solo. The six following tracks are Buryat songs (hunting song, archery song, ring dance song etc...). Two songs remind us that women are not always in good position in a former nomadic society (B8 and B9). The album ends with a ring dance ''jooxor'' rarely recorded.
The booklet is quite informative in French and English. A nice album for those who like the Mongolian ''long song'' captured in the steppe.

 

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Lee Saeng Kang

 대금 : 이성진 

 

DAEGEUM : LEE SAENG KANG

Dae Seong, 1985, DAS-0238 

 

This is another tape brought back by a friend of mine. The player is  Lee Saeng Kang one of the greatest masters of the Korean flute. He's backed by a changko player (Lee Song Jin ?) as usual for the sanjo style.
There are two pieces by side but I put them together in one track on each side.

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