Field recordings: Music (video documentation) – page 3
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ABOUT THESE VIDEOS
Outside of Karkax
Until the day I’d recorded this, I’d never heard anything quite like what these 9 farmers, many of them relatively elderly, were doing. While playing these huge, relatively loosely skinned daps (hand drums), one of them would lead the songs and the others would chant in response. I was floored for the full 30 minutes they kept it up. There were ritualistic elements to this music that we were unable to experience unfortunately. Technically, here is a case, where the video I have from my old digital still camera is silent, so the audio was added from what I had been recording – though not necessarily at that moment. musicians: Jabarahon, Abdulla, Tursunbaky, Abdulhalik, Ehmed, Yit, Pear, Ubul, ???
Artux
While sitting the office of the Artux culture bureau securing persmission to record there, I heard this beggar woman out in the street through the window. Her incredibly powerful voice and rhythmic sapaya (percussive wood and metal rings) playing cut through the traffic and cacophony of that place like nothing else. After almost missing her thanks to the requisite bureaucratic wait, we were able to convince her to come with us to a quiet courtyard at a friend’s home nearby. After offering her and her granddaughter lunch we spent some time chatting where she told us that she had come from a community of beggars near Kashgar who would gather together to sing. There she had learned the songs she sang in the streets of Artux. musician: Tujanhan Kasim
Artux
a couple of short clips from a trio and then a larger group performing Artux folk songs.
