Friday 3 August 2018

ANDRÉ H4MEL / LA NEF ENSEMBLE - LES MUSIQUES D'URN0S (2017)

This outstanding release by Quebec composer Hamel features the Early Music NEF ensemble. The stunning project attempts to resurrect the 5000 year old music and instruments of the Urnos shepherd people in the Harappan-era Indus Valley.

As I understand it, evidence of advanced musical notation was discovered in the region around 1940. Hamel has spent years piecing together and imagining the melodies and musical rituals of this marginal historical community, resulting in this bagpipe-addled masterpiece of primordial revelry, droning folk/baroque tones and  mystifying, dream-worthy beauty.

Dream it here...

1 comment:

  1. wow how the hell did i miss this in 2018. does anyone remember 2018. i don't. i remember 2014 cause i almost died which was quite a dream. sam shepard says, "we all die"
    and we do but i am glad i didn't die in 2014 and that i lived through and forgot 2018.
    thanks u so much forgive my dream comments
    roberth

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