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Spirit Cry Flutes and Bamboo Jews Harps from Papua New Guinea: Eastern Highlands and Madang
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Ragnar Johnson & Jessica Mayer
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Spirit Cry Flutes and Bamboo Jews Harps from Papua New Guinea: Eastern Highlands and Madang
Label
Ideologic Organ
Catalogue Number
SOMA048DIGITAL
Release Date
June 30, 2023

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Press Release

Third release in a trilogy of double LP and double CD documents of the invaluable ethomusicological research of Ragnar Johnson and Jessica Mayer in Papua New Guinea from the 1970s. Limited edition pressings have consistently sold out. In collaboration with David Toop. “A New Guinea Journey”, Dr. Ragnar Johnson’s 289pp manuscript journaling the research in the 1970s is published simultaneously to the release of these audio documents. The third part of Ideologic Organ Music’s trilogy together with Dr. Ragnar Johnson and Jessica Mayer’s anthropological field recordings of sacred flute music from the island of Papua New Guinea in the 1970s. A book titled “A Papua New Guinea Recording Journey” consisting of Dr. Johnson’s field notes from the entire research period will be published simultaneously with this music release. “The recording of a male initiation ceremony with sacred flutes, bullroarers and ‘crying baby’ leaves was only possible after fifteen months residence during anthropological research. From the same Ommura villages in the Eastern Highlands there are bamboo jews harps, yam fertility flutes and singing. Nama (‘bird’) sacred flutes were recorded in a Gahuku Gama village in the town of Goroka. There are Mo-mo bamboo resonating tubes and singing from the Finisterre Range of Madang. From the Ramu Coast region of Madang there are: Waudang flutes, garamut slit gongs and singing from Manam Island, Maner flutes from Awar village and Siam and Guna flutes and garamuts from Nubia Sissimungum Village. These previously unreleased recordings were made in 1976 and 1979.” Ragnar Johnson, London 2021.

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Digital Tracklist

Disc 1

  1. 1 Habaio 1:50 Buy

    Habaio

  2. 2 Naio 7:46 Buy

    Naio

  3. 3 Kureh 4:03 Buy

    Kureh

  4. 4 Uko 3:09 Buy

    Uko

  5. 5 Tourori 2:11 Buy

    Tourori

  6. 6 Anno 0:59 Buy

    Anno

  7. 7 Kureh 2 1:51 Buy

    Kureh 2

  8. 8 Pwahabai 2:23 Buy

    Pwahabai

  9. 9 Ommura Iyavati 24:31 Buy

    Ommura Iyavati

Disc 2

  1. 1 Uko and Queh-queh 4:08 Buy

    Uko and Queh-queh

  2. 2 Vuvira Ihi 1:07 Buy

    Vuvira Ihi

  3. 3 Vuvira 1:12 Buy

    Vuvira

  4. 4 Ora-ihi 0:59 Buy

    Ora-ihi

  5. 5 Suwaira Ihi 1:08 Buy

    Suwaira Ihi

  6. 6 Nama 4:09 Buy

    Nama

  7. 7 Mo-mo 5:41 Buy

    Mo-mo

  8. 8 Waudang 5:56 Buy

    Waudang

  9. 9 Maner 1 3:14 Buy

    Maner 1

  10. 10 Maner 2 8:29 Buy

    Maner 2

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Ragnar Johnson & Jessica Mayer

Ideologic Organ

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