Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

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Duration: 133 min.

Contents note: Disc 1: Skaros / trad. Greek -- The patris / Spiros Meidanis -- Latino America / Justo Diaz -- Adio Calabria mia / Rocco Minci -- Waltz / trad. Italian -- Were you at Carrick / trad. Irish -- You keep me awake / 20th century Arabic -- Jovano Jovanke / trad. Macedonian -- Kaval solo / trad. Macedonian improvisation -- Samba de Angola / trad. Brazilian -- Mantinadhes / trad. Cretan -- Prejjem / trad. Maltese -- Tonight you deserted me / trad. Greek -- Composition for a friend / Le Tuan Hung -- An bannan bui / trad. Irish -- Theme from The Pudding / Louis MacManus -- Slowly dying in a foreign land / Thimios Stathopoulos -- First set of The Lancers / trad. British -- Ceol beag / A. Ferguson, trad. Scottish -- Disc 2: Loum neang / trad. Cambodian wedding song -- Taqsim, Mawaal / example of Arabic popular music -- Magpie / John Harb -- North Indian folk melodies / trad. North Indian -- The Southern Cross is calling me / Joseph Paolacci -- Schottische / trad. German -- I drank milk and burnt my tongue / trad. Anatolian -- Irish jig set / trad. Irish -- Tarantella / trad. Italian -- Syu Sydney / Orhan Gazi -- Toss the feathers and other Irish reels / trad. Irish -- Kalaidjisko / trad. Macedonian -- Rag mishra pilu / trad. Northern Indian.

This product forms part of the following series: Soundabout Australia series.

Capture session: includes recorded performances drawn from various sources (ABC, National Library, private collections).

Two booklets included. Booklet 1 contains an essay by Peter Parkhill, titled 'Transplanted Music Traditions in Australia', and select bibliography. Booklet 2 contains program notes, notes on the composers and performers and song texts in English.

Performers: Chris Fakos (santouri: Skaros) ; Chris Karkanakis (violin: Skaros) ; Haralambos Fakos (clarinet: Skaros) ; Spiros Meidanis (laouto: The patris) ; Tassos Krestas (vocals: The patris) ; A. Papagiannopoulos (violin: The patris) ; Christos Pistevos (clarinet: The patris) ; A. Frangkou (accordion: The patris) ; I. Tsirouphlis (guitar: The patris) ; Papalote (Latino America) ; Justo Diaz (guitar, bombo, charango: Latino America) ; Olympia Karanges (zampogna: Latino America) ; Elias Pebaque (percussion, bongos: Latino America) ; Terra Mia (Adio Calbria mia) ; Giovanni Celima (organetto: Waltz) ; Eileen Loughnane (Were you at Carrick) ; Said Hajal ('ud, vocals: You keep me awake) ; Mounhir Khassabien (accordion: You keep me awake) ; Bassam Fadul (violin: You keep me awake) ; Nicola Boulos (darbukkha: You keep me awake) ; Melbourne Macedonian Women's Choir (Jovano Jovanke) ; Anna and Rita Vasileva (conductors: Jovano Jovanke) ; Chris Vasilev (kaval: Kaval solo) ; Tunari (Samba de Angola) ; Kon Tsourdalakis (lyra: Mantinadhes) ; Giorgos Tsourdalakis (laouto: Mantinadhes) ; Joe Engerer (lead guitar: Prejjem) ; Vince Pulo (lead guitar: Prejjem); Gary Camilleri (harmony guitar: Prejjem) ; Manuel Casha (harmony guitar: Prejjem) ; Apodimi Compania (Tonight you deserted me) ; Le Tuan Hung (dan tranh: Composition for a friend) ; Declan Affley (guitar, voice: An bannan bui) ; Cast of The Pudding (Theme from The Pudding) ; Thimios Stathopoulos (bouzouki, vocals: Slowly dying in a foreign land) ; Reg Anning (button accordion: The lancers) ; Lachlan MacCabe (highland bagpipes: Ceol beag) ; Sydney Cambodian Music Ensemble (Loum neang) ; Clovice Ghuntous ('ud: Taqsim, Mawaal) ; J. Jammal (organ: Taqsim, Mawaal) ; Osman Shams el-Din (vocals, darbukkha, daf: Taqsim, Mawaal) ; John Harb, Joseph Harb and family (vocals: Magpie) ; Ilyas Sheikh (flageolet: North Indian folk melodies) ; Afroz Koya (tabla: North Indian folk melodies) ; Joseph Paolacci (guitar, mandolin, vocals: The Southern Cross is calling me) ; Bill Fechner (accordion: Schottische) ; Anatolian Minstrels (I drank milk and burnt my tongue) ; The Celtic Inheritance Group (Irish jig set) ; Aldo d'Amico (organetto: Tarantella) ; Orhan Gazi (divan saz: Syu Sydney) ; Louis MacManus (fiddle: Toss the feathers and other Irish reels) ; John Fitzgerald (banjo: Toss the feathers and other Irish reels) ; Stephen Cooney (didjeridu: Toss the feathers and other Irish reels) ; Svetlost (Kalaidjisko) ; Ashok Roy (sarod: Rag mishra pilu) ; Parthasaraty Mukherjee (tabla: Rag mishra pilu) ; Adrian MacNeil (tanpurat: Rag mishra pilu).