Burundi
Musique Du Burundi (LP)
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (1" rip near edge)
Gatefold sleeve with booklet glued inside.
One of the records that made Ocora's reputation: Michel Vuylsteke's 1967 recordings of Burundi, issued the following year with the label's usual austere cover and a booklet that took the music as seriously as any Western repertoire. The famous track is the whispered inanga, a zither played under a singer's barely voiced murmur, a sound with no equivalent anywhere that has been sampled, imitated and written about ever since. The rest of the disc has the royal drums (ingoma), which the country later made a UNESCO heritage item, and the flute and vocal music of the hills.
Ocora was Radio France's ethnographic wing, run by Charles Duvelle with a documentary rigour that also happened to produce beautiful objects. This first pressing (OCR 40) is the one with the original notes. A record that belongs in any collection of sound, not just of Africa.
Release notes
Grand prix international du disque - Académie Charles Cros - 1970. Recorded and photographed with the help of "La voix de la révolution du Burundi". With booklet attached including photographs and notes in French and English. 75-78 reissue.
| A1 | Chant Avec "Inanga" | 5:30 | |
| A2 | Chant De Femmes | 2:37 | |
| A3 | "Ubuhuha" Chanté Par Deux Femmes | 1:52 | |
| A4 | Complainte Avec Accompagnement De Vièle | 2:30 | |
| A5 | Chant Avec Arc Musical | 1:00 | |
| A6 | Complainte Avec Accompagnement De Sanza | 2:00 | |
| B1 | Solo De Flûte | 3:24 | |
| B2 | Akazéhé Par Une Jeune Fille | 1:12 | |
| B3 | Akazéhé Par Deux Jeunes Filles | 1:40 | |
| B4 | Solo D'"Inanga" | 2:30 | |
| B5 | Ensemble De Tambours | 7:32 |
- M.-H. Le Camus
- Layout
- J. Bennett
- Liner Notes [Translation From French]
- Charles Duvelle
- Producer, Edited By
- Michel Vuylsteke
- Recorded By, Photography By, Liner Notes
