MUSIQUES DU CAMBODGE DES FORÊTS
MUSIC FROM THE FORESTS OF CAMBODIA
Anthologie de la musique des peuples, 1976, AMP 72902
As far as I know none of the albums issued by this label have been reissued on compact disc or are digitally available. Which is bad really given the great quality of these field recordings. I already posted four of these discs plus this one but there are much more of them I don't have.
This is a copy of an album found in a library a good while ago.
As usual the people who recorded in the field always give a good picture of the area where they were about the geography, the history or the people they recorded. Bernard Dupaigne as founder of this great label couldn't do less. He met the Pör people west of Cambodia in the Cardamom Mountain region and the Kuy in North Cambodia in 1969 and 1970. Then Cambodia was drawn into de Vietnam war. Dupaigne asks himself in the text he wrote what happened to those people who were heavily bombed between 1970 and 1975. So these recordings are quite precious for us and for Cambodian people as well so that young generations might retrieve parts of their culture despite the war and the ''Khmers Rouges''.
As I copied the English text as well you can discover in details what these recordings are about.
Note that tracks B1 and B2 are grouped together.
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