Around Music / Ecouter Le Monde (Boxset) [DVD]

Description

• Over 12 hours of documentary films centered “around music”
• Deluxe hard case boxset with 52-page booklet & 6 double DVD slim cases
• Features world music artists of international appeal including Toumani Diabate (Mali), Roswell Rudd (USA), Shaban Zeneli (Albania), Nahoua Silué (Ivory Coast), and many more

“Around Music / Écouter le Monde” is a collection of 12 rare films which take us on a journey around the world, looking at a variety of cultures and music.

Find out how a young Congolese woman experiences her first ritual; hear the singing and playful voices of old pipers in the Calabria mountains; discover the breath-taking Fulani dances of Niger’s Wodaabe folks; witness the unlikely fusion of a New York jazzman and a Malian griot and even follow a musician’s adventures in Namibia!

From nomadic areas of the African Sahel to the isolated countrysides of Europe; from ancient Romanian rural homes to the dense African metropolis; from the Bamako recording studios to the backstage proceedings of a Parisian theatre, these diverse films are bursting with music, featuring people from all different walks of life with fascinating stories to tell.

DVD 1
Bamako Is A Miracle
The meeting in Mali between the New York trombonist Roswell Rudd and Toumani Diabate and the scenes in situ of the recording of a blend of colourful music

Sivas, Home Of Poets
The songs and traditions of the Ashiks – poets-musicians in modern Turkey – who see themselves as the voice of the people which they defend with their music

DVD 2
Between Us
The ethnomusicologist Emmanuelle Olivier organises concerts in France with a group of musicians from the Kalahari Desert

The Poet’s Salary
Linguist Alexandre Francois, accompanied by an ethnomusicologist, go to Vanuatu for the inauguration of an epic song composed in his honour

DVD 3
Singing For A Lost Country
Living in the yearning for a lost island, Shaban Zeneli sings for the devastated village of his ancestors in Chameria, located in the north of modern Greece

Crying For The Dead
In a Gypsy neighbourhood of Transylvania, the community meets around the dead body of a foremother in order to sing and cry her memory

DVD 4
Walé Chantal, An Ekonda Woman
The preparation of the ritual following the birth of the first child within the Ekondas community in Zaire

Masters Of Balafon: Funeral Festivities
In the Ivory Coast, the balafon master Nahoua Siloue guides us in the Senoufo community and their music

DVD 5
Practice And Mastery
In the remote mountains of southern Italy, two musician brothers, Antonio and Vincenzo, shape and play the zampogna – bagpipes from Calabria

Turnim Hed
Turnim Hed follows Kube, a member of the Chimbu people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, as he searches for a bride by performing the extraordinary kuria gika ritual

DVD 6
Wodaabe, Dance Instead Of War
Wodaabe Fulani nomads meet annually at the heart of the Nigerian Sahel for geerewol, a gathering ceremony that combines singing and dancing

Jupiter’s Dance
Jupiter Bokondji, leader of the Okwess group, guides us through the ghetto of Kinshasa to meet many musicians who live there.

Rated: ‎ Exempt

Language: ‎ French, English

Product Dimensions: ‎ 13.5 x 5 x 19 cm; 759.99 Grams

Media Format: ‎ Box set, PAL

Release date: ‎ 14 Dec. 2015

Actors: ‎ Various Artists

Subtitles:: ‎ English, French

Studio: ‎ Wienerworld

Country of origin: ‎ France

Number of discs: ‎ 6