Tahiti: the Gaugin Years

Explorer Series - Indo / S. Pacific (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

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Audio CD (Feb 28 2003)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Nonesuch
ASIN: B000084T5G
Other Editions: Audio CD
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #163,310 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Within the Forest
2. Religious Chant
3. May the Moon Rise
4. Chant at the Death of a Woman
5. Drums of War
6. The Story of a Battle
7. I Am Alone
8. Genealogy
9. Dance of the Children
10. Once She Was As Beautiful As the Moon
11. Let Us Tell the Story
12. We Will Watch
13. Song for the Sea at Sunset
14. Bamboo Drums and Dance of Summer
15. Song for Birds in Flight
16. There Was a Time
17. Chant in the Face of Danger
18. Women's Work Song
19. Drums of Welcome and Rejoicing
20. Dance of Pleasure in Love
See all 26 tracks on this disc

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4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Explorer discs I own, Sep 7 2004

By Pharoah S. Wail - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Tahiti: the Gaugin Years (Audio CD)

This disc was a very welcome addition to my collection. In terms of the liner-notes it is one of the least informative Explorer Series discs that I own. No play-by-play on each track, and just a general overview that lasts a couple pages so you don't get as much information on the culture as usual. I guess that's okay though, as it's always all about the music anyway, not what someone says about the music.

Also no date of recording either, but these were usually released shortly after being recorded and since it was originally released in 1968 I'll guess the recordings are from '64 through '67.

As for the music itself, it's a mix of the old and the newer. The majority of the tunes are traditional... drumming, small-group vocals, and some larger community singing. This stuff is great and really transports you back in time to their untouched culture, and is in all likelihood extinct now (I am guessing). There is something about "tribal, community singing" that is just magical. It conveys a sense of interconnectedness that you just don't get very often in the modern world. Although even pre-"discovery", the liner-notes make it sound like Tahiti has a violent past within itself, so I don't think it was all a day at the beach.

The women steal the show here.

The newer tunes are guitar & vocals or ukelele & vocals tunes that I really love also. Whereas the old traditional tracks have that raw, real and true earth music sensibility that I love, the more modern tracks are like tropical old-timey music. An island lilt with a touch of sadness.

Now I want to read into Tahitian culture. I know next to nothing about that area, aside from Cook and the Endeavor and the calculated rape of an entire region.

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