Label: VDE-Gallo Records – VDE 30-425/430
Series: Collection Universelle De Musique Populaire Enregistrée
Format: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Box-Set
Country: Switzerland
Released: 1984
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: African, Celtic, Nordic, Field Recording
Expansive, one-of-a-kind ethnographic boxset presenting some of the earliest folk recordings from around the world. A publication from the Geneva Ethnographical music, the 6 disc box captures raw field recordings of vernacular (amateur) musicians, mostly from around the early 1940s. Rough, raw and transpositive. Museum grade publication! (NM - discs clean, box and booklet VG++)
Tracklist
Record I: Afrique
A 1 - 2 Hausa– Hausas (Niger Territory)
A 3 - 6 Tuareg (4)– Tuaregs (Tahoua Region)
A 7 - 12 Peuls*– Peuls (Niger Territory)
B 1 - 4 Unknown Artist– Ethiopians (Kerker District)
B 5 - 9 Unknown Artist– Africans (Republic Of Congo And Ivory Coast)
B 10 - 16 Kabyle– Kabyles (At Yanni Tribe, Djurdjura Kabylia)
Record II: Asia & Eskimos
A 1 - 2 Unknown Artist– Turks (Central Anatolia)
A 3 - 6 Georgians– Georgians
A 7 - 8 Unknown Artist– Hindus (Benares)
B 1 - 4 Unknown Artist– Japanese
B 5 - 9 Unknown Artist– Takasago Formosans
B 10 - 11 Unknown Artist– Chinese
B 12 Carobou Eskimos*– Carobou Eskimos
Record III: Europe 1
A 1 - 5 Unknown Artist– Rumanians
A 6 - 10 Unknown Artist– Rumanian-speaking Ukrainians (Boug Region)
A 11 - 14 Unknown Artist– Macedonian-Rumanians (Greece, Pinde Region)
B 1 - 2 Unknown Artist– Greeks
B 3 - 8 Unknown Artist– Judaeo-Spanish (Salonika)
B 9 - 11 Unknown Artist– Bulgarians (Sofia Region)
Record IV: Europe 2
A 1 - 3 Unknown Artist– Serbians (Skopje Region)
A 4 - 6 Unknown Artist– Bosnians (Sarajevo Region)
A 7 - 12 Unknown Artist– Italy (Sicily And Sardinia)
B 1 - 4 Unknown Artist– Corsicans
B 5 - 9 Basques– Basques (French Basque Country)
B 10 - 14 Unknown Artist– Portuguese (Province Of Beira-Baixa)
Record V: Europe 3
A 1 - 9 Unknown Artist– French (Berry And Bretons)
A 10 - 13 Unknown Artist– Wallons (Belgium)
A 14 - 18 Unknown Artist– Flemish (Belgium)
B 1 - 6 Unknown Artist– Irish
B 7 - 10 Unknown Artist– Gaels (Hebrides: Isle Of Barra
B 11 - 16 Unknown Artist– English
Record VI: Europe 4
A 1 - 3 Unknown Artist– Swiss Germans (Cantons Of Schwyz, Appenzell, Valais)
A 4 - 10 Unknown Artist– Germans
A 11 - 14 Unknown Artist– Austrians (Southern Tirol)
B 1 - 8 Unknown Artist– Norwegians
B 9 - 15 Unknown Artist– Estonians
B 16 - 21 Unknown Artist– Russians (Pskov Region)
