Sacred Flute Music From New Guinea: Madang / Windim Mabu

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Release Date: 2016-03

Label: Ideologic Organ

Recorded in Papua New Guinea, April-August 1976.
Tape to digital transfer at Dave Hunt Audio, London 0715
Mastered & cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin 0815

We would like to thank the performers and the people of the villages ofAway, Borai, Bo'da, Keanan, Kuluguma, Nubia Sissimungumand Damaindeh-Bau for making this record possible. Copies of the master tapes are in the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Port Moresby.

Ragnar Johnson thanks the Canadian I.D.R.C. for supporting his anthropological research.

Thanks to Dave Hunt for transferring the original magnetic tape recordings onto digital media and to Stephen O'Malley, David Toop,and Evan Parker for assistance.

CD1 originally released on LP 1977 as !Quartz 001 (Sacred Flute Music From New Guinea : Madang) and CD2 1979 as !Quartz 002 (Windim Mambu. Sacred Flute Music From New Guinea: Madang Vol. 2), Quartz Publications by David Toop with the assistance of Sue Steward, Evan Parker, Robert Wyatt and Alfreda Benge. Re-released on CD 1999 as Rounder Records 5154 & 5155.

© 2016 Ideologic Organ / Editions Mego