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Symphony of Nature

Various Artists
Symphony of Nature This international collection presents songs from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Caribbean invoking and honoring the natural world. Musical interpretations of our earth range from poetic allusions to life in the Cuban countryside, to explicit descriptions of a Vanuatu coastline, to imitations of the wind on a Japanese flute. The recording also includes songs to accompany dancing, swimming, fishing, grain harvesting, picking flowers for lovers, and artificially inseminating the date palm tree. This album is part of the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music.

Track Listing

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CUBA: Mi tierra es asi Cucalambe Ensemble 03:58
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TURKMENISTAN: Gümmür-gümmürlendi (Mountains are trembling) Pirdzhan Moshchyev, Mätzhan Annagulyev 04:45
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Bosobè (Song and dance of a diviner-healer) (extract) n/a 02:59
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VANUATU: Kaimata n/a 01:54
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CHINA: Huan lo ts'ao yuan (Happiness upon the grassy plain) Tsui Wah-Nam 03:54
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TURKEY: Yucelerden Seyreyled Im Dostun Izini (From high above I have followed the footprints of my beloved) Ali Ekber Cicek 02:31
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CHINA: Liushui (Flowing Waters) (extract) Guan Pinghu 04:15
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BULGARIA: Harvest song n/a 03:14
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BYELORUSSIA: Harvest song Fayna Olesich, Watalya Andreykoviets, Heema Doroshevich, Tatiana Fedorova 01:03
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BAHRAIN: Bahri (extract) n/a 03:47
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CAMEROON: The water drum (extract) n/a 01:31
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VIET NAM: Phong xuy trich liêu (The wind blows and bends the weeping willow) Mong Trung, Trân Vân Khê 04:09
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MONGOLIA: View over the Kherelen River Batbayar 02:58
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PORTUGAL: Macelada (Picking Camomile) n/a 02:03
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BENIN: Musotie, harvest dance n/a 03:12
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ALGERIA: Song for the insemination of the date palm n/a 02:02
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CAMEROON: Music for the Nganga Dance (extract) n/a 02:57
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FRANCE: Sur le pont d'Auron Jean Blanchard 03:26
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JAPAN: Aiolos (extract) Sylvie Beltrando, Pierre-Yves Artaud 02:39