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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