Australie – Vogue EXTP 1056, recorded in Central Australia by Jacques Villeminot, 1950s (7 in, 45 RPM)
This record presents the music of the Pitjantjatjara People
from the Central Australian desert. During their corroboree ceremonies participants enter a mythical and metaphysical
‘dreamtime’ to transcend past and present through body-painting, music and
dance. According to ethnologist Jacques Villeminot, these nomadic
hunter-gatherers did not have instruments other than rhythmically striking rocks
and sticks.
Ce disque présente la musique du peuple aborigène Pitjantjatjara vivant dans le désert d’Australie centrale. Au cours de leurs cérémonies corroborées, les participants entrent dans le « temps du rêve » mythique et métaphysique pour transcender le passé et le présent à travers des costume, des peintures du corps, la musique et la danse. Selon l'ethnologue Jacques Villeminot, ces chasseurs-cueilleurs nomades n’avaient, en guise d’instruments, que des bâtons ou des pierres qu’ils entrechoquaient rythmiquement.
Ethnologist, speaker and filmmaker Jacques Villeminot (b. 1924)
is a pioneer in ethnographic film known for his films on native peoples in
Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Photographs below are from The Earth Spirit - Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries by John Michell, Crossroad, 1975, and The World of the First Australians by Catherine and Roland Berndt, University of Chicago Press, 1964:
Corroboree Rock, Central Australia.
"A man beats his stick rhythmically as he sings to the drone of the didjeridoo. Goulburn Island, Western Arnhem Land, 1961."
"Man on Djebalmandji forked stick calling sacred invocations, Milingimbi, late 1930s."
"Djunggawon novices painted to represent the mythical Wawalag sisters and wearing sacred armbands, Yirrkalla, 1947."
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ReplyDeleteThanks for this nice music. Please put more music from Africa.
ReplyDeleteI try to feature all types of traditional/folk musics from the four corners of the world. Next month I will share two great African records, including one from a country I have not yet featured.
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ReplyDeleteIf I can suggest something about african music. I would like to send such recomendadion. It would be great and rare album. It has never posted nowhere before on the Internet.
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Thank you for your interest and recommendation. I actually have that album and planned to post it one day. The Bärenreiter Musicaphon LP series is truly amazing (like the one I recently posted on Igbo music). But this month I will share two locally-produced African albums.
DeleteThanks for the records but Jacques Villeminot is just another white man who recorded the Indigenous Australians for his own reasons. He did nothing to advocate for them, he could have advocated for at least the Anangu people. Also, if the translations are correct and these are secret chants of initiation, this recording is insensitive and gives access to sacred knowledge only passed down to initiated men (I doubt the Anangu people gave him access to produce this recording).
ReplyDeleteThe more I'm humble to be part of these 'transcendentions' and to be able to listen to it. And be taken by it . .
DeletePicture of the rock reminded me of film that some of you might be familiar with. Picnic at Hanging Rock from 1975.
Delete"Most fascinating thing here is possibly the way the Rock is depicted - it appears as self-conscious entity, alive in a sense which is beyond Western logic."
". .ancient beauty of wild Australia. ."
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