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A group of Bayaka men, including Zalogwé and Balonyona, singing and playing geedal under a palm shelter. In this recording, Zalogwé grabs a microphone and pretends to be a pop star, addressing listeners in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Recorded by Louis Sarno on the afternoon of 22nd April 1986 in the Central African Republic. Louis Sarno, a pioneering field recorder, has been recording Bayaka music in the rainforests of the Central African Republic and Republic of Congo since 1985. His ethnographic collection of more than 1000 hours of audio and thousands of images is curated by the Pitt Rivers Museum. For more information about geedal music, please visit: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/index.php/multimedia-film-geedal For more information about the Louis Sarno archive please visit: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/index.php/collections-sarno Sound Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum project website and blog: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/ http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk

The Louis Sarno collection of more than 1000 hours of recordings of Bayaka music and soundscapes from the Central African Republic and Northern Congo is the largest collection of its type in the world. Sarno has been living in the Central African Republic since 1985 and has been recording the entire range of music making of a single community of hunter gatherers across more than a generation. He continues to send recordings, images, and video to the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Moru sanza music by Timon Beri from Lui village in Moru Misa, Eastern Equatoria. Recorded by Patti Langton in South Sudan in 1979. Patti recorded Timon playing five distinct songs, and one of the songs tells of a boy and girl who want to marry, but the mother of the girl doesn't like the boy so he can't marry her. The Patti Langton audio collection includes music, interviews and language lessons and is curated by the Pitt Rivers Museum, together more than 1000 fieldwork images and over 100 objects. The image shows a crowd of boys and girls gathered to around Timon Beri on the steps of Lui school, Moru Misa, Eastern Equatoria and watched by a young boy [2008.78.1.27]. Timon is playing his sanza. Copyright the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Please see the online catalogue entry for further information. http://photographs.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/2008_78_1_27.html For more information about the Patti Langton archive, please visit web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/index.php/patti-langton Reel to Real project website and blog: web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/ https://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk/

Zande song by Makana recorded by Edward Evans-Pritchard in Zandeland, South Sudan between 1928 and 1930. Evans-Pritchard's collection, which includes 86 wax cylinders together with manuscripts and more than 5000 fieldwork images, is curated by the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Reel to Real project website and blog http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/ http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk/

Durei-na-mbwe by the Broken Consort, with Samuel on Bu-Wahr-Wahr (panpipes), accompanied by Dominique, Erine, Ferdinand, and Marineau. Recorded on Vanuatu by Raymond Clausen on 11th May 1961.

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