Name: The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 3: Ethnic Music Classics 1925-1948
Brand: Yazoo
SKU: 64558
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The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 3

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Album: The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 3: Ethnic Music Classics 1925-1948
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Indaba Yomkonto - Hope Fountain Native Girls' Choir (Matbeleland)
2)	Dilbar - A. Mirzaeva (Samarcand)
3)	Flisak - Makowska Orkiestra Dzialowego (Poland)
4)	Virgen de Covadonga, La - "Cuchichi" Jose Menendez (Spain)
5)	Parting at Yang Kwan - Wei Chung Loh (China)
6)	Ta Magia Sto Pegadi - Georgios Trakis (Epirus)
7)	Kidim‚nkazAndi Kuna Ngombe - Ngigi Leon Nkenkete (Angola)
8)	Inthakannananda - Vidwan Rajamanikkam (India)
9)	Vdol Po Piterskoi/Veisia, Veisis Kapoustka - Aristoff Choir (Russia)
10)	Bakmiyor €esmi Siyah - Hamiyet Yceses (Turkey)
11)	Yebitchai - Navajo Elders (Lukachukai, Arizona)
12)	Gunan Kor - Chimiddorzh Ghanzhuryin (Mongolia)
13)	Buen Humor - Grupo Dominicano (Dominca)
14)	Nalimbisi Yo - Jean Kalafayi (Congo)
15)	Kamarinskaja - (Russia)
16)	Mai Wanga Anadiuza - Thayelo Kapiye Trio (Nyasaland)
17)	Moe Pau Ko Phan (Flower of Heaven) - Maung Su (Burma)
18)	VerrA Quel Di Di Lune... (The Day Will Come) - "Canto Di Soldati" (Tuscany)
19)	Byyatt Turk - Iran Dowleh Helen (Persia)
20)	Running Set - Elsie Avril (England)
21)	O Ju Male Me Debore - Kendon Grupi (Albania)
22)	Soutsanenh - Anon. Khene (Laos)
23)	Raks Fazani - Khomais Ternan/Mohammed Kadri (Tunisia)
24)	Lugger Song - Fly River Singers (Kiwai Island)

Album: The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 3: Ethnic Music Classics 1925-1948
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Indaba Yomkonto - Hope Fountain Native Girls' Choir (Matbeleland)
2)	Dilbar - A. Mirzaeva (Samarcand)
3)	Flisak - Makowska Orkiestra Dzialowego (Poland)
4)	Virgen de Covadonga, La - "Cuchichi" Jose Menendez (Spain)
5)	Parting at Yang Kwan - Wei Chung Loh (China)
6)	Ta Magia Sto Pegadi - Georgios Trakis (Epirus)
7)	Kidim‚nkazAndi Kuna Ngombe - Ngigi Leon Nkenkete (Angola)
8)	Inthakannananda - Vidwan Rajamanikkam (India)
9)	Vdol Po Piterskoi/Veisia, Veisis Kapoustka - Aristoff Choir (Russia)
10)	Bakmiyor €esmi Siyah - Hamiyet Yceses (Turkey)
11)	Yebitchai - Navajo Elders (Lukachukai, Arizona)
12)	Gunan Kor - Chimiddorzh Ghanzhuryin (Mongolia)
13)	Buen Humor - Grupo Dominicano (Dominca)
14)	Nalimbisi Yo - Jean Kalafayi (Congo)
15)	Kamarinskaja - (Russia)
16)	Mai Wanga Anadiuza - Thayelo Kapiye Trio (Nyasaland)
17)	Moe Pau Ko Phan (Flower of Heaven) - Maung Su (Burma)
18)	VerrA Quel Di Di Lune... (The Day Will Come) - "Canto Di Soldati" (Tuscany)
19)	Byyatt Turk - Iran Dowleh Helen (Persia)
20)	Running Set - Elsie Avril (England)
21)	O Ju Male Me Debore - Kendon Grupi (Albania)
22)	Soutsanenh - Anon. Khene (Laos)
23)	Raks Fazani - Khomais Ternan/Mohammed Kadri (Tunisia)
24)	Lugger Song - Fly River Singers (Kiwai Island)

Performer Notes

Includes liner notes by Pat Conte.
Digitally remastered from original 78s by Richard Nevins.
Audio Remasterer: Richard Nevins.
Liner Note Author: Pat Conte.
Illustrator: M. Emory.
Unknown Contributor Role: Pat Conte.
Of all the recent excavation projects inspired by our voracious musical culture, none is more fascinating than Pat Conte's SECRET MUSEUM series for Yazoo. Till now, a Western listener's familiarity with ethnic music from the distant past has depended on unsexy field recordings of relatively recent vintage, produced in a spirit of near-scientific inquiry by anthropologically minded musicologists. When the commercial record business really began to expand in the late '20s however, just about every national style of music was sought out and captured for a growing marketplace. This was true "world music," dressed in its Sunday best perhaps as performed by ambitious locals, but still more vital than the academic, folklorist approach that followed.
Just as Harry Smith compiled early commercial blues and country records for his monumentally influential ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC, so Conte has gathered even rarer 78s from all over the globe. Thanks to excellent remastering, we can hear vividly how an ensemble sounded in India or Japan more than a half-century ago or a klezmer orchestra right before the Nazis destroyed that bit of local culture. It's like owning your own time machine.