KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Trance and Ritual Music: by Annea Lockwood, Program 8

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA/BBC

Identifier

TR.1970.09.07.c1

Program Series

Trance and Ritual Music

Program Length

18 min

Dates

1970-09-07 | broadcast

Description

“They have such intensity of purpose, these sounds. Sounds which are as if blown through your skin. They are invocations, evocations of you. There, not to make music but to invoke man to himself. This music, which is a music for sorcery and ritual, sets things in motion within and without. And movement is the pivot of being.”

Genres

World music
Field recordings

Musical Selections

Glass sound from “Glass World” -- Otomi religious music, Mexico -- Colombian Indians summoning gods with osiri and pipana flutes -- Divination song from Tangyanika -- Black magic ceremony, Malaya -- Austrian jew’s harp solo -- Chilean witch doctor’s chants -- Nose flute trio, Fiji -- Ceremonial music for hanging of minister, French Equatorial Africa -- Bo music, Southwest India