This CD is a compliation of 34 tracks of Naga-music (74 minutes of total playing time + a 24-page booklet with texts and photographs), recorded digitally for the first time ever by Peter van Ham during his various expeditions among the different Naga-peoples of India and Myanmar. It features musical traditions such as unique singing styles and peculiar vocal performances along with impressive rhythms played on giant log drums, never before heard in the Western world.

It is intended to have this CD distributed by the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington D.C. on its SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS label.

So far, however, this CD is exclusively available through the

SPNH
The "Society for the Preservation and Promotion of Naga heritage",

founded by Aglaja Stirn and Peter van Ham with their friends from Nagaland and interested supporters around the world, which has funded the production of the CD through grants by the Ulrike Crespo Foundation.

The CD is available in a limited edition of 1000 copies for 15 Euro + postage and packing.
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NAGA - Songs from the Mist
A Celebration of Music from the Naga Hills in Northeast India and Burma


CONTENT

I. Introduction

1) The Origin of Song – Ao with hoolocks (Tirap / Changtongya) 1:05
2) Welcome / Aketapuka – Rengma (Tesophenyu) 2:12
3) Süngkong: The Call of the Logdrum – Yimchunger (Sangpurre) 3:19


II. Field Work and Fertility

4) ”It’s Not So Hard . . .” – Yimchunger (Sangpurre) 3:56
5) Hurry! For Rains Are Coming . . . – Chakhesang (Cheteba) 2:27
6) Stony Ground – Angami (Kigwema) 1:32
7) Tentenmong: The Seedling Dance – Ao (Mopungchuket) 2:13
8) Sekrenyi – Chakhesang (Cheteba / Pfutsero) 2:11
9) Grinding the Paddy – Yimchunger (Sangpurre) 1:55
10) Aoling – Konyak (Totok) 1:36
11) Rest – Pochuri (Meluri) 3:28
12) Nenzünzü Kütsü: Thanksgiving – Rengma (Tesophenyu) 2:55


III. Occasional Songs, Epics and Dances

13) Enchanted Forest - Yimchunger (Sangpurre) 2:18
14) Yearning – Zeliangrong (Peren) 1:54
15) Naming The Child – Nocte (Lapnan) 1:35
16) Lailung – Wancho (Longding) 3:37
17) Feast of Merit – Sema (Vishepu) 3:01
18) Weaving Song – Rengma (Tesophenyu) 2:29
19) Ungmangla – Ao (Ungma) 2:18
20) Sounds of Bamboo – Yonkon (Lahe)* 0:38
21) Kneedances – Yimchunger (Sangpurre) 1:05
22) The Pride of Women – Khiamniungan (Noklak) 2:42
23) Morung – Chakhesang (Cheteba) 2:09
24) My Love – Chakhesang (Cheteba) 2:31
25) The Blessings of Nature – Chakhesang (Cheteba) 1:16


IV. Heroes, Warfare and Headhunting

26) Süngkong Ajenba – Ao (Mopungchuket) 1:35
27) The Old Headhunter – Konyak (Mon) 0:51
28) Drums For A Head – Yimchunger (Sangpurre) 0:59
29) We The Warriors – Yimchunger (Salumi) 0:47
30) A Head Has Come – Yimchunger (Salumi) 1:31
31) Clans – Phom (Yongnyah) 3:08
32) Hail To The Heroes – Chang (Tuensang) 5:23
33) The Old Logdrum – Ao (Changtongya) 0:55
34) Glory Of The Past – Nocte (Kheti) 2:06

Total running time: 1.13:37

All recordings by Peter van Ham,
except * by Shota Kanazawa. GEMA.
© The STIRN-VAN HAM ARCHIVES, Frankfurt, Germany, 2004
Recorded on location in India (Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh)
and Myanmar (Sagaing State) between 1998 and 2002.
Produced by Peter van Ham.
Mastering by Peter Wenke.
Liner notes © by Peter van Ham.
Drawings © by James D. Saul.
Cover and booklet design by Peter van Ham & Alex Weiher /
Cliffhouse Design.
Cover and booklet photographs by Peter van Ham & Aglaja Stirn,
© The STIRN-VAN HAM ARCHIVES.

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