Lomax and another Zemp

 

From the cover of Fataleka and Baegu Music/Hugo Zemp

Top 100 2021, #19 (provisional): Fataleka divinatory songs: Uunu. Fataleka Music, Uunu song form, Divinatory songs, performed by men's choir seated in two rows facing each other.

From: Solomon Islands, Fataleka and Baegu Music from Malaita, recorded by Hugo Zemp in 1970. Unesco Collection of Traditional Music, CD released by Smithsonian, originally released on LP on Phillips, 1973. Images in the painting: The flute player comes from the cover of the CD. An image of an uunu performance appears on the LP version but no indidual from this tiny image could be singled out so I opted for the musician shown on the cd cover. For the Hugo Zemp image I resorted to a photo that appeared in the study guide companion to the movie "Are'are Music and Shaping Bamboo by Hugo Zemp. The photo was taken by Ada Zemp-Partinkus on Malailta Island in 1975.

Alan Lomax

Top 100 2020, #86: Smasalom sung by a woman from the Pyuma tribe, Southwestern Formosa (Taiwan).

From The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. XI: Japan, The Ryukyus, Formosa and Korea. Collected and edited by Genjiro Masu for the Japanese Music Institute of Tokyo. Series collected and edited by Alan Lomax (Columbia LP ca. 1955).

Note: when I first became interested in field recordings in the 1990s, Alan Lomax was the chief musicologist I turned to. Numerous songs from his extensive catalogue have been featured in past top 100s. Most of these are recordings of traditional music from the United States but Alan Lomax did field work in many other locations in the world. He is also the man behind the Columbia World Library series from the 1950s, a series of LP's that continue to be a main resource of music for the Top 100. The notes provided with each album are usually richly illustrated but the Smasalom song did not come with an image, and an image of Genjiro Masu I could not find.