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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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101
Cucalambe Ensemble
03:58
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102
Pirdzhan Moshchyev, Mätzhan Annagulyev
04:45
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103
Aka diviner-healer and Aka men and women
02:59
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104
Kuautoga
01:54
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105
Tsui Wah-Nam
03:54
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106
Ali Ekber Çiçek
02:31
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107
Guan Pinghu
04:15
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108
Female vocal group, village of Plana
03:14
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109
Fayna Olesich, Watalya Andreykoviets, Heema Doroshevich, Tatiana Fedorova
01:03
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110
Men's choir from the Dar Al Jinaa, Muharraq
03:47
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111
Baka children
01:31
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112
Mong Trung, Trân Vân Khê
04:09
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113
Batbayar
02:58
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114
Two elderly women with adufe accompaniment
02:03
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115
Two Somba flute players, dancers
03:12
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116
Date palm garden worker, Gourara
02:02
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117
Baka healer and ritual participants
02:57
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118
Jean Blanchard
03:26
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119
Sylvie Beltrando, Pierre-Yves Artaud
02:39