Where the Mountains Meet the Sky: Folk Music / Var: Where The Mountains Meet The Sky: Folk Music / Var
Where the Mountains Meet the Sky: Folk Music / Var: Where The Mountains Meet The Sky: Folk Music / Var
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Where the Mountains Meet the Sky: Folk Music / Var
Label: Sublime Frequencies
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 613505500267
Genre: International
Music from Ladakh recorded during the making of the film The Song Collector (2014) by director Erik Koto, with additional material recorded by Bill Kite in 1992. "Situated high in the Western Himalaya, Ladakh is one of the great cultural crossroads of Asia. For centuries, it sat at the hub of ancient trade routes that connected the Silk Road to India, Tibet, and Kashmir. Each year, once the winter snows had melted from the high passes surrounding Ladakh, it's markets would buzz with merchants from throughout central Asia. They brought spices, wool, salt, and silk. They also brought their instruments and their folks songs. Over time, these diverse musical influences laid the foundation of Ladakh's unique folk traditions. Folk music became central to the daily life of the Ladakhis with song serving as an essential form of communication, documentation, and entertainment. This collection of songs is intended to offer a sampling of the range of Ladakh's folk music. These songs also celebrate one of the great folk artists of Ladakh, Morup Namgyal. Morup is an avid preservationist and during his 30-year career working at Ladakh's only radio station (All India Radio, Leh) he recorded a vast archive of Ladakhi folk songs. This collection of over 1,000 recordings was unlike anything else in Ladakh and formed a crucial link to a dying folk tradition. Tragically, it burned to the ground in 2002 when a fire raged through the old wooden radio station building. The loss was devastating, but Morup immediately set about recreating the archive. Five of the songs on this album, recorded in 1992, are among the handful of tracks to have been spared by the fire. Today, Ladakh's marketplaces bear little resemblance to the buzzing markets of old. Gone are the camel trains and merchants, replaced instead by Indian trucks belching smoke. Seemingly vanished too are the folk musicians, pushed aside by the synthetic beats of the latest Bollywood hit. But the folk artists have not vanished entirely, and if you wander beyond the blare of the latest pop song, you'll discover a folk tradition that, thanks to the efforts of Morup Namgyal and others like him, is alive, evolving, and poised to endure the challenges of modernization." -Erik Koto. LP comes with a full-size insert containing historic photos, song lyrics, and liner notes by Erik Koto.
Tracks:
1.1 Flute Melody 1
1.2 Chaspay Lhu
1.3 Rgunam Snonmo
1.4 Rgung Namkhy Skilna
1.5 Hemis Sanag Chosling
1.6 Larna
2.1 Lar Garlo
2.2 Emorie Zonga
2.3 Stendel Sumpa
2.4 Harvest Song
2.5 Threshing Song
2.6 Flute Melody 2
