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Feb. 6th, 2010 12:50 pm
Voices of the Past:
Warren Ellis has posted this recording of an Appalachian Field Holler:
Field Holler
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"Field Holler" is the opening piece off the album Back Roads to Cold Mountain, a collection of recordings of the Appalachian tradition ranging from 1944 to 2002. You can listen to more, and buy it, at http://www.folkways.si.edu/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=3037. There are several gems therein, but "Field Holler" is the one that haunts me. It has some spectral relationship with music I’ve heard from the Solomon Islands, with Bayaka music, with Clive Powell’s rendition of "Reed Sodger." There’s something ancient about it, something that speaks to blood.
In contrast to the Appalachian Holler is 'Boa Sr' the last speaker of the Bo language thought to have been spoken by the Bo tribe of the Andaman Islands for up to 65,000 years. Boa Senior died recently taking the language with them.
Full BBC article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/02/100205_bo_language_lost.shtml
Field Holler
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"Field Holler" is the opening piece off the album Back Roads to Cold Mountain, a collection of recordings of the Appalachian tradition ranging from 1944 to 2002. You can listen to more, and buy it, at http://www.folkways.si.edu/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=3037. There are several gems therein, but "Field Holler" is the one that haunts me. It has some spectral relationship with music I’ve heard from the Solomon Islands, with Bayaka music, with Clive Powell’s rendition of "Reed Sodger." There’s something ancient about it, something that speaks to blood.
In contrast to the Appalachian Holler is 'Boa Sr' the last speaker of the Bo language thought to have been spoken by the Bo tribe of the Andaman Islands for up to 65,000 years. Boa Senior died recently taking the language with them.
Full BBC article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/02/100205_bo_language_lost.shtml