Nonesuch Explorer Series reissues

from another list:

>From the new Nonesuch summer/fall preview press release:
>
>AUGUST 27
>
>Nonesuch Explorer Series reissues: Africa, 12 discs. We are repackaging and
>re-releasing the entire now-classic Explorer series, with 93 records in
>total. The releases are being organized by continent, the first to be
>represented is Africa. The rest of the records will be released in the same
>fashion every 3 months, or as fast as we can possibly get them out.

Yippie! It's about time!!!

* David Beardsley
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--- In metatuning@y..., David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> >Nonesuch Explorer Series reissues

> Yippie! It's about time!!!

No kidding! Boy, did those original discs open up worlds for me. I just last week had to turn down a trip to Bali along with Bob Brown, the guy who did their Balinese and Javanese albums... :(

Cheers,
Jon

yeah, this is great! the Nonesuch Explorer series is
what opened my ears to African music back in the '80s,
and also was responsible for my great interest in
Bulgarian folk music.

-monz

----- Original Message -----
From: "jonszanto" <JSZANTO@...>
To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: [metatuning] Re: Nonesuch Explorer Series reissues

> --- In metatuning@y..., David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> > >Nonesuch Explorer Series reissues
>
> > Yippie! It's about time!!!
>
> No kidding! Boy, did those original discs open up worlds for me. I just
last week had to turn down a trip to Bali along with Bob Brown, the guy who
did their Balinese and Javanese albums... :(
>
> Cheers,
> Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "jonszanto" <JSZANTO@...>

> --- In metatuning@y..., David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> > >Nonesuch Explorer Series reissues
>
> > Yippie! It's about time!!!
>
> No kidding! Boy, did those original discs open up worlds for me.

Me too.

>I just last week had to turn down a trip to Bali along with Bob Brown,
>the guy who did their Balinese and Javanese albums... :(

Have you ever been to Bali or SE Asia before?

I found this discography:

http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~schneide/discogr/nonesuch.html#72000

* David Beardsley
* http://biink.com
* http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley

----- Original Message -----
From: "monz" <monz@...>

> yeah, this is great! the Nonesuch Explorer series is
> what opened my ears to African music back in the '80s,
> and also was responsible for my great interest in
> Bulgarian folk music.

# H 72052 PALLAVI. South Indian Flute Music

This was in my local library when I was growing up.
Violinist L Shankar is on it. Pretty cool disc.

* David Beardsley
* http://biink.com
* http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley

--- In metatuning@y..., David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> Have you ever been to Bali or SE Asia before?

Only vicariously. :(

Jon

--- In metatuning@y..., "monz" <monz@a...> wrote:
> yeah, this is great! the Nonesuch Explorer series is
> what opened my ears to African music back in the '80s,
> and also was responsible for my great interest in
> Bulgarian folk music.

Yup. Those were (and will be!) great. The Denver Public Library used to have all these great recordings that I listened to in high school, In particular, I recall a series of world folk music by National Geographic that ripped me a new ear. Unfortunately I forgot the name of it. Does anyone recall? There was also a spoken language one where folk tales were told in maybe 100 or so different languages.

John Starrett

--- In metatuning@y..., "jdstarrett" <jstarret@c...> wrote:
> In particular, I recall a series of world folk music by National
> Geographic that ripped me a new ear.

Another series that really opened me up was sponsored, IIRC, by UNESCO. In particular, there was a recording of various choral groups from Georgia (not Jimmy Carter's Georgia!) that blew me away; there was a yodelling style, I think called kanchelly (or similar). I actually have the LP somewhere and will post info, as it is seriously rambunctous and hair-raising.

Cheers,
Jon

Hello Jon and others!
Unesco still exist as distributed by Auvidus and most of this has gone Budget as well as some of the OCORA catalog, at least the reissues. Harmonia mundi takes care of these in the US! Many of the older Unesco (70's) are being put out on Rounder records. Although far from being done those interest might like to check out this list
http://www.anaphoria.com/best100world.html

jonszanto wrote:

> --- In metatuning@y..., "jdstarrett" <jstarret@c...> wrote:
> > In particular, I recall a series of world folk music by National
> > Geographic that ripped me a new ear.
>
> Another series that really opened me up was sponsored, IIRC, by UNESCO. In particular, there was a recording of various choral groups from Georgia (not Jimmy Carter's Georgia!) that blew me away; there was a yodelling style, I think called kanchelly (or similar). I actually have the LP somewhere and will post info, as it is seriously rambunctous and hair-raising.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
>

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

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--- In metatuning@y..., "jonszanto" <JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> --- In metatuning@y..., "jdstarrett" <jstarret@c...> wrote:
> > In particular, I recall a series of world folk music by National
> > Geographic that ripped me a new ear.
>
> Another series that really opened me up was sponsored, IIRC, by
UNESCO. In particular, there was a recording of various choral groups
from Georgia (not Jimmy Carter's Georgia!) that blew me away; there
was a yodelling style, I think called kanchelly (or similar). I
actually have the LP somewhere and will post info, as it is seriously
rambunctous and hair-raising.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon

ara has a cd of the georgian men's chorus (or something) and a few of
the pieces are in a completely unique yet clear harmonic/melodic
language, pitchwise no less than any other aspect. i'd *love* to
figure out what scale they're using -- the harmonic/melodic interplay
is so rich and rapid that i can't get an aural fix on it . . .

--- In metatuning@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:
> ara has a cd of the georgian men's chorus (or something) and a few
> of the pieces are in a completely unique yet clear harmonic/melodic
> language, pitchwise no less than any other aspect.

Ah, hell, now my juices are flowing, so I'm gonna have to move some crap outta the way in the closet and see if I can't find that record! All I remember is they'd build up this head of steam and then all resolve to a 'unison' (which was nice and fuzzy) that was somewhere between any two places you might have thought they'd land. Always took the top of my head off.

When I find the cut I'll try and record, rip, and mp3 it for people to hear...

Cheers,
Jon

P.S. Dja see that list of 100 best world musical recordings from Kraig? Got my attention, it did (like I need to buy *more* recordings right now! As if...)