Artist: Various Artists

Title: Bosavi: Rainforest Music From Papua New Guinea

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2001

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

UPC: 093074048726

Genre: New Guinean, International

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. My Father, My Heart - Kemuli String Band
2. Kemuli - Kemuli String Band
3. Oh No! - Kemuli String Band
4. What We Said - Kemuli String Band
5. My Mother - Kemuli String Band
6. Really Hungry! - Gasali Mates II String Band
7. Sadness - Lus Mangi Grin Neks String Band
8. BBK Brother - Difalasulu String Band
9. E-Yo, E-Yo - Tasi Kabulo: String Band
10. Long Ago - Gusuwa String Band
11. Father, Mother - BVDC String Band
12. Where Has My Mother Gone? - BVDC II String Band
13. Rosi, Rosi - BVDC II String Band
14. Blue Mountain - BVDC II String Band
15. Sorry, My Sister! You People Go! - BVDC III String Band
16. Air Niugini Plane - BBK String Band
17. One Time - BBK String Band
18. The Sun Is Setting - Gasali Mates String Band
19. My Sweetheart - Gasali Mates String Band

DISC 2:
1. A Men's Work Group Clears a New Garden
2. Ulahi Sings While Scraping Sago Pith
3. Ulahi Sings While Making Sago
4. Fo:Fo: And Miseme Sing at Their Sago Place
5. Uiahi and Eyo:Bo Sing with Afternoon Cicadas
6. Ulahi and Eyo:Bo Sing at a Waterfall
7. Men's Vocal Quartet with Seed-Pod Rattles
8. A Large Men's Collective Work Group Sing and Whoop
9. Gaima Plays the Bamboo Jew's Harp
10. Voices in the Forest: A Village Soundscape

DISC 3:
1. Funerary Sung - Weeping Group
2. Funerary Sung - Weeping By Gania and Famu
3. Funerary Sung - Weeping By Hane
4. Seance Gisalo Song By Aiba with Weeping
5. Ceremonial Gisalo Performance By Halawa
6. Group Ceremonial Drumming, Ilib Kuwo:
7. Ceremonial Ko:Luba Song - 1
8. Ceremonial Ko:Luba Song - 2
9. Ceremonial Ko:Luba Song - 3
10. Ceremonial Ko:Luba Song - 4
11. Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 1
12. Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 2
13. Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 3
14. Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 4
15. Women's Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 1
16. Women's Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 2
17. Ceremonial Sabio Duet
18. Ceremonial Sabio Quartet

This is the most comprehensive musical portrait ever of life in a Papua New Guinea rainforest community. Three CDs and an 80-page illustrated booklet feature two generations of Bosavi musicaians and twenty-five years of field recordings.