MY FIELD RECORDINGS FROM ACROSS THE PLANET

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Back in the 1960s there were still parts of the world where European music hadn’t been heard; where the traditions which had been developed by human beings over centuries were still continued with no knowledge of the Western style of music, which since then has enveloped the world. So these sounds, which I captured with a clumsy tape recorder 50 years ago, do have a quality which you wouldn’t be able to replicate today.” David Attenborough This 2CD set is a compilation of original field recordings made by David Attenborough between 1954 and 1963. He travelled to remote parts of the world to find and film exotic animals for the BBC television series Zoo Quest. But he was just as interested in the people he met and their music. Whenever he came across musicians, out came his early portable tape machine. “While I was theoretically looking for pythons, in the evenings I would record different types of music… ” The recordings have been in the BBC’s Sound Archive ever since and this is the first time they’ve been made available on CD. This collection features more than 50 recordings of traditional music from Sierra Leone, Paraguay, Madagascar, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Islands and northern Australia. The accompanying 52-page booklet draws on David Attenborough’s experiences with stunning original photographs of the musicians and recordings. Presented by Songlines magazines and compiled & edited by Julian May.