Label: Black Sweat Records

素晴らしい研究記録!!マルチ楽器奏者及びコンポーザーのJ.H. Burchが行なった、モロッコの高アトラス山脈に位置する"幸せの谷"と呼ばれるアイト・ブー・グームス渓谷に住む、北アフリカの先住民ベルベル人(アマジグ人)の口承芸術の録音。特に女性だけの劇団Troupe Asnimerの声楽レパートリーに着目、無数の匿名作家によって書かれた歌の合唱スタイルにJ.H. Burchが様々な音の伝統に関する知識を導入、サントゥール、タンプーラ、オルガン、パーカッションを加え録音した不思議な共同記録も収録。200部限定。







Multi-instrumentalist and composer J.H. Burch gives new intensity to a neglected ethnographic and folklore reality: the rural Amazigh poets of the Ait Bouguemez valley of Morocco. His vision of cultural exchange led him to the vocal repertoire of the all-female Troupe Asnimer, whom for decades have been amongst the most important custodians of the various Amazigh oral art forms in the region. The Asnimer women recite in chorus songs written by numerous anonymous authors, some dating back centuries, making their tradition and a fluid and constantly evolving collective oeuvre. Each of the tribal forms has its own time and place, some like Tamawayt are poems of travel and lamentation, Timnadin of daily labour, others are sung as Sufi rites. From the Asia and the Pacific, J.H. Burch succeeds here through his knowledge of different sound traditions and a varied use of instrumentation (baglama, santur, tanpura, kamanche, organ, deyurey, electronics, percussion), and in becoming a conduit for Asnimer, frames the collaboration without distorting its ancestral and rural physiognomy. On the contrary, the songs of the Amazigh tribes of the Haut-Atlas are colored through afro-asiatic spiritual arrangements of meditative sensitivity. Limited to 200 copies.