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Taa! - Our Language May Be Dying, But Our Voices Remain

Mesmerizing field recordings from Botswana. Producer/recordist/Grammy winner Ian Brennan ventured to an end-of-the-road location to document songs sung in Taa, a rich language on the verge of extinction. This captivating music is created by solo and layered voices, handclaps, found percussion and thumb piano. Shamanic, ghostly ballads from the farthest reaches of Southern Africa. The Taa language in Botswana possesses 112 sounds, the most of any language in the world. In contrast, English has approximately 44 sounds, Italian 32. But there are only around 2,500 Taa speakers remaining and the language is dying. The songs on this album are mostly mantras- prayers that repeat the same words or phrases over and over again. The song titles tell entire stories by themselves, and with the Taa languages heavy use of click consonants, the sounds carry the meaning as much as the words.

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€ 16.50
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Format
CD - 1 disk
Release date
16-06-2023
Label
Item-nr
589815
EAN
4030433614020
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. GONXLAE - TRANCE INDUCTION SONG 03:48
2. XHASHE - I AM LOST (THE SPIRITS GUIDE ME HOME) 02:11
3. GONXLAE - CHASE THE EVIL SPIRITS AWAY 00:52
4. QOBA - PROTECTION FROM THE BEES 00:56
5. KEBA - THE BUSHMEN ARE STARVING (WE'VE BEEN MADE POOR BY THE RICH) 00:26
6. NTEBOGANG - WE MUST GIVE THANKS 02:07
7. GONXLAE - THE SPIRIT TRAVELS AT NIGHT 03:06
8. TXAO / RUDY / KAGISO - WE HAVE BEEN ABANDONED BY THE WORLD 00:46
9. DOTTORE - KUDU (TORTOISE) DANCE 00:23
10. TSAA - PRAYER FOR FOOD (MIRACLE MANIFESTATION) 04:40
11. NTEBOGANG - OUR ANCESTORS SHOW THE WAY 01:11
12. XHASHE - CALLING OUR LOVED ONES BACK FROM THE DEAD 02:56
13. KAGISO - MY CULTURE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 00:42
14. QASA - WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF LOVE 02:24
15. NTEBOGANG - THIS IS THE LAND WHERE I COME FROM 00:23
16. DUXWA - PREPARATION TO HEAL 04:00