The Mist

Rengma Naga, woman from Tesophenyu, 20x10

A couple of CDs that I ordered from Peter van Ham, from Germany are climbing up the ranks in Top 100 land. The CDs were recorded in the far Northeast of India and a few tracks in Myanmar as well. The CD Naga: Songs from the Mist, features recordings from between 1998 and 2002 of the Naga peoples, while Himalaya: Songs from the Heights, has recordings from Arunachal Pradesh from 2013. Both CDs were recorded by Peter van Ham, the latter on his own label. I was delighted to find a good many photographs, mostly by van Ham as well, in the booklet, even though they are super tiny. The photo illustrating Atekapuka, a welcome song from Tesophenyu in Nagaland, India, doesn't measure more than an inch by an inch-and-a-half, and has six or seven people on it, in black and white.