PAPUA NEW GUINEA – INDONESIA – SOLOMON ISLANDS An Introduction to the Music of New Guinea – Prestige International INT 25013

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – INDONESIA – SOLOMON ISLANDS
An Introduction to the Music of New Guinea – Prestige International INT 25013, originally released on the Wattle Recordings label in 1958 (LP)

This anthology of the music of New Guinea, recorded in the 1950s and spanning Papua New Guinea, Indonesia’s Papua Province and the Solomon Islands, presents rare glimpses of this rich, eerie music connected to the invisible world, including flutes, horns, bullroarers, drums, and singing.

Cette anthologie de la musique de la Nouvelle-Guinée, enregistrée dans les années 1950 en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans la province de Papouasie en Indonésie et dans les îles Salomon, présente de précieux fragments de ces musiques riches et mystérieuses connectées au monde invisible, avec notamment des flûtes, des trompes, des rhombes, des tambours et du chant.

A1 Huon Peninsula to Maclay Coast (Morobe Province)

A2 Madang Manum Island (Madang province)

A3 Sepik River (the country’s longest river in the Sandaun and East Sepik Provinces)
A4 Wewak to Papua Province (East Sepik Province & Indonesia's Papua Province)

A5 Huon Gulf to North Morobe (Morobe Province)

A6 South East Morobe (Morobe Province)

B1 Highlands of New Guinea

B2 Vitiaz and Dampier Straits (East New Britain Province)

B3 North Coast New Britain (East New Britain Province)

B4 Tolai Clan, Rabaul Area, New Britain (East New Britain Province)

B5 Gazelle Peninsula and South Coast New Guinea (East New Britain Province)

B6 New Ireland Province

B7 Solomon Islands          

B8 Admiralty Islands (Manus Province)

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Our other Papua New Guinea music shares:

The Iatmul of Papua Niugini – BM 30 SL 2701 here

Music of the Middle Sepik – BM 30 SL 2700 here

Photographs below are from L'Art de Manger - Rites et Traditions en Afrique, Insulinde et Océanie, Musée Dapper; Oceania by Elisabetta Gnecchi Ruscone, Electa; Le Monde Océanien by Annie D'Alleva, Flammarion; and L'Art des Papous et des Austronésiens de Nouvelle-Guinée by Nicolas Alain, Scala.

Plug for a sacred wusear flute, Lower Sepik (Biwat)

Girl with ritual puberty tattoos, Oro Province

Gogodola artist ritually preparing a war boat to connect it with the invisible world, Gulf of Papua

Warriors holding an Asmat shield

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