Label: Art into Life - AIL035

民族音楽学や人類学、宗教、歴史を専門に研究、人間の文化的な多様性、またその重要性を記録し独自の発信を行なってきたオランダの出版社Sound Reporters。ここより1988年にカセットフォーマットにてリリースされた、エーゲ海キクラデス諸島の一つであるギリシャ領”アモルゴス島"のフィールドレコーディング。数年間現地に居住していた画家Harry Van Essenがサウンドスケープを収集、Sound Reportersの創設者であり民族音楽学者のFred Galesがミックスを担当した共同作品。島の北東部に位置する港”エギアリ”近辺のサウンドをスケッチ的に結合、前半部では海の音と大衆音楽が交互に流れ、詩の朗読、漁船の音、ボードゲームを楽しむ人々、祝宴の会場と、人々の生活に根差した音風景が展開。村を通り抜け山へ登る後半部では人々の日常風景に加え、コオロギの鳴き声、ミツバチの羽音、放牧された大量のヤギが奏でるカウベルなど、島本来の素朴な環境が現れる。

リマスタリングはGiuseppe Ielasiが担当。













Sound Reporters was a Dutch publishing company that specialised in anthropology, religion, and history, releasing unique documents of the cultural multiplicity of human societies and their importance. These recordings were originally released on cassette in 1988, and consist of field recordings made on the Greek island of Amorgos, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. The release was jointly credited to the painter Harry Van Essen, who lived for several years on the island and recorded its soundscapes, and also to the ethnomusicologist and founder of Sound Reporters, Fred Gales, who mixed the recordings.

The recordings consist of sketched amalgams of local sounds from Egiali, a port in the northeast of the island. The first half is a soundscape deeply rooted in the island people’s daily lives, alternating sounds of the sea with popular music, recitations of poetry, the sounds of fishing boats, people playing boardgames, a party. The second half takes us out of the village and into the mountains, unveiling the island’s unadorned natural environment: the sounds of cicadas, the buzz of honeybees, the bells of the large herds of goats left out to pasture, etc.

Remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.