Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Musiques du Pays Lobi

 

MUSIQUES DU PAYS LOBI

MUSIC FROM THE LOBI COUNTRY 

Disques OCORA/ORTF,  1970, OCR 51

This is another album that didn't make it to the present Ocora catalogue. Charles Duvelle (1937-2017) recorded these musics in the field in 1961 in what was called at the time Upper Volta now Burkina Faso.
Side A focuses on Lobi music with three tracks of elong xylophone and singing plus one track with women singing. Side B presents some Gan, Dagari and Birifor music.
As usual the notes are informative enough to understand what's happening.
A very nice album with some exciting and powerful  music on the xylophone well recorded.
Text in English (and French). 

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Musiques du Pays Lobi

  MUSIQUES DU PAYS LOBI MUSIC FROM THE LOBI COUNTRY  Disques OCORA/ORTF,  1970, OCR 51 This is another album that didn't make it to the ...