"New Ireland is a long, narrow island (350km long/10km wide) lying in the Pacific Ocean to the north-east of the island of Papua New Guinea, to which it is administratively attached. Although it's population is only 90,000, the cultural landscape is highly diversified: some forty, mainly Austronesian languages and dialects are spoken, not to mention those imported by the recent immigrants from Papua New Guinea itself. A single word, however, dominates the religious, social and cultural worlds of New Ireland: Malanggan. This refers to the ritual cycles tied to the cult of ancestor worship, funeral ceremonies in the course of which particular chants are heard, and also to polychrome masks sculpted in the round that are famous the world over. Whereas Malanggan sculptures are famous and known to all museums and amateurs of oceanic art, the music of New Ireland is little-known, since available recordings are scarce or inexistant. And yet, as is clear from this CD, the art of music in not behindhand." Recorded in 1974 by Charles Duvelle. Liner Notes included.
Any chance of a re-upload of this? The link doesn't work and it sounds fascinating. I think all of the Mediafire links work, but not this one which is on some other service.
ReplyDeletehey!sorry for the late reply. unfortunately i have moved country and have lost my files for this cd. got most of them from a library in sydney.. shame as it is a really special one
ReplyDeleteat the very least i can really recommend this blog which i discovered recently https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/?m=1
best of luck. if you can't find it maybe you could buy it, it's a beautiful album. the track from the album cover with the flutes is pretty amazing from memory