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- Harmika Yab Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: SF017
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sublime Frequencies
- Release Date: 26 July 2004
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PRICE: £15.99
Harmika Yab Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal
This exciting mosaic snares among other oddities, a "King Cobra" snake charmer, the sounds of slaughtering buffaloes and guns firing amidst a Durga Puja festival, dreamy folk music, Sarangi and Harmonium players seeping in from unknown radio signals, pounding drums, praying monks, child choruses, street sermons, loudspeaker promotionals, and quiet footsteps at the top of the world.
"Harmika Yab Yum" is a divine blend of Radio excerpts and field recordings from Nepal compiled by Robert Millis. This exciting mosaic snares among other oddities, a "King Cobra" snake charmer, the sounds of slaughtering buffaloes and guns firing amidst a Durga Puja festival, dreamy folk music, Sarangi and Harmonium players seeping in from unknown radio signals, pounding drums, praying monks, child choruses, street sermons, loudspeaker promotionals, and quiet footsteps at the top of the world. Millis has produced many curious audio works as a member of the group"Climax Golden Twins" and this collection of Himalayan ephemera captures the timeless beauty of the world's highest Kingdom, land of the rhododendron, the Kumari (a "living goddess"), and the legendary "Yeti". (Recorded in Kathmandu, Pokhara, Gorkha, and other undisclosed locales in 1996)
Track Listing
1. Radio Nepal 1/Street Sermon
2. Radio Nepal II
3. Pony Train/Radio Nepal III
4. Snake Charmers/Radio Nepal IV
5. Wedding Procession and Apothecary/Radio Nepal V
6. Radio Nepal VI
7. Novice Buddhist Monks
8. Durga Puja Slaughter/Huge Prayer Wheel/Kathmandu Street Ambiance/Beggar
9. Radio Nepal VII
10. All Night Festival
11. Pokhara Dogs
