Various Artists
CENTRAFRIQUE - CENTRAL AFRICA
(CD) SANZA MUSIC IN THE LAND OF THE GBAYA
MEG-AIMP/ Musee d ethnographie de Geneve / MEG-AIMPCD124
CD
CD - 6 pages digipack including a 36 pages booklet with extensive liner notes and pictures.
A long-time best-seller of the MEG-AIMP collection and long out of print, this album of sanza music recorded among the Gbaya people of the Central African Republic by ethnomusicologist Vincent Dehoux was originally released on CD in 1993. It is now being reissued on vinyl and CD to coincide with the exhibition Afrosonica - Soundscapes. It features a selection of 'songs for thought': an intimate repertoire conducive to introspection, accompanied by the repetitive, meditative sound of lamellaphones.[info sheet from distr.]