Tuesday, July 12, 2022

AFGHANISTAN – TURKEY – IRAN – PAKISTAN – INDIA Musiques d'Orient – Les Mariés du Bout du Monde – Le Chant du Monde – LDX 74478-79

AFGHANISTAN – TURKEY – IRAN – PAKISTAN – INDIA
Musiques d'Orient – Les Mariés du Bout du Monde – Le Chant du Monde – LDX 74478-79, recorded by Brigitte de Saint Preux & Tchekof Minosa, released 1973 (2 LP)

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#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl
#Afghanistan #Turkey #Iran #Pakistan #India #Le Chant du Monde #Kuchi people #Turkmen People #Kurdish People#Kalash People #Nefa People #Dervish trance #snake charmer #Traditional music #world music #gijak fiddle #dambora lute #ceremony #trance #dervish #Sufi #marriage #MusicRepublic #vinyl

Between 1970 and 1973, the French couple Brigitte de Saint-Preux and Tchekof Minosa embarked on a great adventure to discover the rites and religious customs of faraway lands. While traveling the world, the couple participated in numerous traditional ceremonies and were married nine times in the tradition of nine different peoples, in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. They shared their unique experiences in five award-winning documentaries, 22,000 photographs, and a book on their travels.

The couple also recorded hours of music that culminated in this excellent double LP of authentic traditional music. The standouts here are an enthralling incantation to the spirits from the rarely recorded Kalash people of Pakistan (D2) and an esoteric Dervish Sufi trance ceremony from Iran (C1).

Numerous newspaper and magazine articles where published in the West about Saint-Preux and Minosa's travels, which captured the exploratory zeitgeist between the mid-60s and 70s. I met a number of Westerners who, as young adults during that time, traveled to places like the Amazon, Mexico, the Sahara, Morocco, India, Nepal and the American West in search of different civilizations, authenticity, a meaning beyond our modern materialistic values, and transcendence — sometimes through shamanic (or not so shamanic) consciousness-expanding substances. 

Although misunderstandings and preconceived ideas persisted during these cultural encounters, which were ultimately just exotic holidays for some travelers, this postcolonial generation had a true sense of adventure, curiosity and respect for the collective ways of ancient cultures. Despite the occasional survival of the music in form, most of what's recorded on this album – and the thriving, distinctive cultures they reflected – had disappeared in spirit by the end of the 1970s.

Entre 1970 et 1973, Brigitte de Saint-Preux et Tchekof Minosa se sont lancés dans une grande aventure pour découvrir les rites religieux et les coutumes dans des contrées " du bout du monde ". Le couple français participa ainsi à de nombreuses cérémonies traditionnelles et se sont même mariés à neuf reprises dans neuf traditions différentes en Turquie, en Iran, en Afghanistan, au Pakistan et en Inde. Ils ont partagé leurs expériences à travers cinq documentaires primés, 22 000 diapositives ainsi qu'un livre publié chez Robert Laffont.

Ils enregistrèrent également de nombreuses heures de musique dont certains morceaux sont présentés dans cet excellent double album de musique traditionnelle authentique, notamment une fascinante incantation aux esprits des Kalash de l'Hindu-Kush (D2) et une cérémonie ésotérique de derviches Sufi d'Iran en état de transe (C1).


De nombreux articles de journaux et de magazines furent publiés dans de le monde sur leurs pérégrinations qui reflètaient l'air du temps et les aspirations de l'époque entre le milieu des années soixante et le milieu des années soixante-dix. J'ai rencontré un certain nombre d'Occidentaux qui, en tant que jeunes adultes à cette époque, se sont envolés vers des destinations telles l'Amazonie, le Mexique, l'Ouest américain (Amérindiens), le Sahara, le Maroc, l'Inde, ou le Népal à la recherche de civilisations différentes, d'authenticité, de sens au-delà des valeurs matérialistes de notre vie moderne, et de transcendance, parfois à travers l'utilisation de substances chamaniques (ou pas si chamaniques) pour accéder à des états de conscience élargies.

Bien que de nombreux malentendus et idées préconçues subsistaient lors de ces rencontres culturelles, et n'étaient finalement, pour certains voyageurs, que des vacances exotiques, cette génération postcoloniale avait indiscutablement un véritable sens de l'aventure, de la curiosité et du respect pour les traditions collectives des cultures anciennes. Malgré la survivance occasionnelle de leurs formes extérieures, la plupart des musiques sur cet album – et des cultures dont elles émanaient – avaient pour l'essentiel disparu dans leur esprit à la fin des années 1970.


AFGHANISTAN  

A1 – Kuchi people  – Caravan song.


A2 – Kuchi people – Evening under a tent;

five-hole metal flute, voice, dambora lute, clapping.


A3 – Kuchi people – Women's song;


women's voices and drums.


A4 – Kuchi people – Women's dance;

women's voices and drums.


A5 – Kuchi people;

drums and voices.


A6 – Turkmen People – Improvisation;

gijak fiddle and dambora lute.


B1 – Turkmen People – Song;

voice, gijak fiddle and dambora lute.


B2 – Turkmen People – Song;

woman's voice and drums


TURKEY

B3 – Erzurum (village of Zekeriakoy on the Black Sea);

Zurna and drums.


B4 – Tamzara dance;

Zurna and drums.


B5 – Topal dance;

Zurna and drums.


B6 – Antep dance;

Zurna and drums.


B7 – Fatmah dance;

Zurna, drums, and voices.


IRAN

C1 – Dervish trance ceremony;

voices and drums.


C2 – Kurdish people – Choupi dance;

dozaleh pipes.


C3 – Kurdish people – Gorani dance;

voices.


PAKISTAN

D1 – Kalash people – Chitramas traditional festival;

voices and clapping.


D2 – Kalash people – Incantation to the spirits;

voices.


D3 – Kalash people – Dance;

flutes, drums and percussion.


INDIA

D4 – Snake (cobra) charmers;

pungis.


D5 – Dance – NEFA (Arunachal Pradesh);

rhythmic voices and rattles.


D6 – Women's song;

voices, harmonium, and drums.


D7 – Rac Orchestra.



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Many thanks (again) to João for sharing this fascinating double LP!

Marriage ceremony conducted by a Kalash head priest in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, Pakistan, (D1-D3):

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Rajput warrior from Rajasthan, India

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Dervish in trance impervious to pain during a Sufi ceremony, Iran (C1):

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Brigitte de Saint-Preux getting bejeweled at the Palace of the Maharaja of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India:

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3 comments:

  1. Merveilleux, merveilleux, merveilleux.

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  2. That’s a nice LP. However the first song is not a field recordings, the singer is Hafizullah Khayal who was a singer/composer/manager in radio Kabul. But that’s true it’s a Kuchi song, beautifully performed. Brigitte & Tchekoff also have a website, you can check it here: http://www.lesmariesduboutdumonde.com/

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