The Arthur S. Alberts Collection: More Tribal, Folk, and Café Music of West Africa

A musical exploration of West Africa from the late 1940s, this Endangered Music Project compilation is comprised of 19 songs culled from an enormous archive by recordist Arthur S. Alberts. During a six-month, 4,000-mile jeep tour of West Africa in 1949, Alberts recorded a broad range of musics using state-of-the-art equipment (for the time). The album features popular music found in clubs and cafés, sacred songs, work songs, and school children’s chants. This anthology, with its rich and varied styles of singing, percussion, hand-claps and other instruments, highlights the depth and diversity of West African music. The Arthur S. Alberts Collection: More Tribal, Folk, and Café Music of West Africa was issued in 1998 as part of the Endangered Music Project, a series curated by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart featuring material from the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways).

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Track Listing

101	Malinke Guitars and Kora	n/a	04:05
102	Mano: A Capella	n/a	02:01
103	Mano: A Capella	n/a	02:20
104	Igbo: Lamellaphones, Bottle & Knife, Drum, Ngedegwu	n/a	04:10
105	Mano: Hammers and Chisels	n/a	03:17
106	Mano: Hammers and Chisels	n/a	02:11
107	Ashanti: Percussion Sticks, Guitar	n/a	03:36
108	Baule: Cylindrical & Frame Drums, Metal Gong	n/a	04:02
109	Fanti: Frame Drum	n/a	04:32
110	Liberian: All for You	Euphene Cooper	02:56
111	Malinke: Bala, Percussion	n/a	04:16
112	Loma: Harp	n/a	03:47
113	Ashanti: Atumpan	n/a	01:02
114	Bindendela: Water Drums	n/a	01:12
115	Bindendela: Water Drums	n/a	01:34
116	Bindendela: Water Drums	n/a	01:25
117	Kinshasa: Clarinet, Concertina, Guitar, Frame Drum, Bottle & Nail	n/a	02:57
118	Bodo-dioulasso: Balas, Drums	Lizahbet	03:36
119	Bodo-dioulasso: Balas	n/a	02:18