Did you know? In New Ireland (one of the north-east archipelago, close to the Solomon islands) people play kazoos, not in solo, but as in orchestra… Founder of the Ocora collection and creator of this splendid Prophet collection, Charles Duvelle introduces here rare recordings conducted in 1974. You can listen to, in addition to the popkopas reed-pipes, the sound of the garamut drum, a hollow and split trunk around which percussionists dance, a song accompanied by a rubbed metal plate, and chanted reminiscences of long past Christians missions…
Papua New Guinea -
Prophet 21 - Philips - 468447-2