Tanzania 2

Almost eight years after releasing his album reinterpreting field recordings made in the late 90s in Tanzania, Laurent Jeanneau prepared the second part of the collection. It includes recordings made during evening gatherings around the campfire in various villages across Tanzania, as well as compositions performed during the holidays of the Hadza people.

The composition Epeme Men was recorded on a moonless night when men and women sang and danced in complete darkness in the Hadza village of Mangole.

Irawk Drum Under the Rain was recorded in the northern part of the country at a multinational gathering in a Catholic mission. The crowd sang and danced in pouring rain, playing a large wet drum called iravk.
<br_The recording of Makonde Island was made in southern Tanzania, on the border with Mozambique. It depicts a trance scene that occurred on the island, where Makonde fishermen from the coast of Mtwara created noise by hitting plastic containers. Men and women, in a state of alcohol or drug intoxication, jumped, danced, and sometimes fell on each other. As a result, some of them were injured.

The main instrument on the album is marimba, which Laurent bought in Arusha, a city in northern Tanzania. He either used recordings from his travels or played the marimba himself and applied electronic processing using Roland synthesizers.

In the album's press release, Laurent noted that he takes full responsibility for heavily distorting recordings with synthesizers that have significant ethnographic value. However, all original recordings can be listened to in his Kink Gong Recs collection.

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