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| "The ocinara is an instrument regarded as a voice of the spirits" 14 x 11 inches, pencil and spray paint on paper, 2020 |
The above quote comes from a page of the blog Anthems for the Nations of Luobaniya.
Blogger bolingo69 is the "
Chargé d'affaires et Ministre de la Culture et des relations
internationelles Luobanienne." I had never heard of Luobaniya so I had
to look it up: "Luobaniya exist wherever a Luobaniyan citizen is
presently standing, the Luobaniyan territory is approximately one
meter." [bolingo, in memory of Luobaniya liaolangsuo, Lars Frederiksson?
The consulate of Luobaniya is in Channai, India] The page I linked you
to is called Music of Oceania - The Abelam of Papua Niugini which is also the title of an album on which the song Nggwal mindsha, antiphony to the ancestral spirits is found. It was also in last year's 100 and earlier this year I wrote a few lines
about it. There's no ocinara heard on the recording but the image (that
I sourced from the bolingo's blog) appears on the album. The ocinara (a
flute) belongs to a family of instruments dating back at least 12,000
years [Wikipedia] and was typically made of bone or clay. Today's
ocinaras are usually made from metal or plastic.
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