Wednesday, July 17, 2019

FRENCH GUIANA – GUYANE Wayapi Guyane – SELAF-ORSTOM CETO 792

FRENCH GUIANA – GUYANE
Wayapi Guyane – SELAF-ORSTOM CETO 792, recorded by Jean-Michel Beaudet, 1977-1979 (LP)
#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual

#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual


This music, recorded by French musicologist Jean-Michel Beaudet in Wayãpi, or Wayampi, villages of Southeastern Guiana between 1977 and 1979, documents the Wayampi's traditional way of life, fishing and hunting and subsisting off the resources of the equatorial Amazonian forest complemented by the cultivation of a few crops like yam and cassava. According to Beaudet, "The material civilization and social life have changed little as a result of contacts with the Creoles and Europeans living in Guiana."

"There are several musical genres: various types of solo flutes played mostly for recreation and relaxation; singing–including love songs, lullabies, and shaman songs accompanied by malaka rattles–clarinet and pan-flute ensembles which are now predominantly a form of collective leisure; war songs expressing nostalgia for a Golden Age which is still seen as an ideal; and sung cycles which celebrate the union and intimacy with their surrounding world."

The intimate, soft and reflective music includes a tule clarinet ensemble (A5-A6), a song for the ancestors announcing a great dance for the next day (A2-A3), a pan flute and scraped tortoise shell (A1), a nasal bamboo flute (A4), a bamboo flute (B1), a three-hole bone flute (B5), a five-hole block flute (B12), various songs (A7 and B2-B4), animal calls (B6-B10), and whistled language (B11).

Cette musique, enregistrée par le musicologue Jean-Michel Beaudet dans des villages Wayãpi (ou Wayampi) au sud-est de la Guyane entre 1977 et 1979, documente le mode de vie traditionnel des Wayampi vivant de la pêche, de la chasse, et de la cueillette dans la forêt équatoriale amazonienne, plus quelques cultures de subsistance comme l’igname et le manioc. Selon l'ethnomusicologue Jean-Michel Beaudet " La civilization matérielle et la vie sociale des Wayapi ont été peu modifiées par les contacts avec les populations créoles et européennes présentes en Guyane. "

" Les différents genres musicaux sont: les solos de flûtes caractérisés par une grande variété instrumentale et qui soulignent surtout le délassement, la tranquillité; les chants d'amour, les berceuses, les chants des shamans accompagnés de hochets malaka; les ensembles de clarinettes et les ensembles de flûtes de Pan dont prédomine aujourd'hui l'aspect de divertissement collectif; les chants de guerre qui expriment la nostalgie d'une époque magnifiée dont le modèle est toujours vivant; enfin, les grands cycles chantés qui célèbrent plus précisément l'union et l'intimité avec l'univers qui les entourent. "

Ces musiques Wayampi intimes, douces et contemplatives présentent un orchestre de clarinettes tule (A5-A6), une chanson à l'attention des ancêtres annonçant une grande danse pour le lendemain (A2-A3), une flûte de pan et une carapace de tortue frottée (A1), une flûte traversière nasale en bambou (A4), une flûte en bambou (B1), une flûte en os à trois trous (B5), une flûte à  bloc à cinq trous (B12), diverses chansons (A7 et B2-B4), des appeaux (B6-B10) et du langage sifflé (B11). 


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Our other post of Amazon Indians
Brazil/Paraguay Indiens et Animaux Sauvages d'Amérique du Sud - UNIDISC UD 30 1293 here


Ethnomusicologist Jean-Michel Beaudet (b. 1953) specialises in the music of the indigenous peoples of South America's lowlands, including the Wayampi, Kali'na, and Parikwene (French Guiana), and the Takana, Chacobo and Weenhayek (Bolivia), as well as Kanak music and dance (New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean).

Thank you (again) Nuno for your precious help with the visuals.


#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual


#French Guiana #Guyane #Amazon #Indians #Traditional music # World Music #Vinyl #magic #shaman #ceremony #flutes #nature #ritual



Photographs below are from Indiens de Guyane - Wayana et Wayampi de la Forêt by Jean-Marcel Hurault, Francoise and Pierre Grenand, Autrement, 1998:

MusicRepublic FRENCH GUIANA – GUYANE Wayapi Guyane – SELAF-ORSTOM CETO 792


MusicRepublic FRENCH GUIANA – GUYANE Wayapi Guyane – SELAF-ORSTOM CETO 792



MusicRepublic FRENCH GUIANA – GUYANE Wayapi Guyane – SELAF-ORSTOM CETO 792


MusicRepublic FRENCH GUIANA – GUYANE Wayapi Guyane – SELAF-ORSTOM CETO 792


MusicRepublic FRENCH GUIANA – GUYANE Wayapi Guyane – SELAF-ORSTOM CETO 792


MusicRepublic FRENCH GUIANA – GUYANE Wayapi Guyane – SELAF-ORSTOM CETO 792

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8 comments:

  1. Felicitaciones por todo este increíble trabajo. Estos días bajé unos cuántos discos y en las próximas semanas los estaré escuchando.

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  2. another amazing piece of music... as usual.
    keep em coming my friend.


    from a soulseeker :)

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    1. Thank you. You can be sure I'll keep 'em coming. Have a great summer.

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  3. So happy to come back home after my travels and be able to start traveling again, through the brilliant music you post!
    Grand merci !

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    1. Welcome back and thanks for your appreciation. I believe traveling is a state of mind, living from moment to moment, doing what's right under your nose to do, like Henry Miller talks about here using the metaphor of music:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYL3mB3rAfU

      The modern mind is rarely ever in the here and now.

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  4. I have this piece on vinyl... It is AMAZING!🙌

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