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Drummers from NAGA
This sounds good for next year's WOMAD.
Hi
I met an artist from Nagaland which is a really unknown people on the borders of India and Myanmar. The artist has won awards for his work and studied at the RCA. He is really very very talented.
He made a video work called Shadows where he videoed people from his tribe doing traditional dancing to the sound of the traditional log drumming. He then edited out the people until all that was left were the shadows. For this he won a prestigious award.
I have seen images of the log drumming. They are quite incredible. The logs- are really trees- huge- 5-7 metres long, and may be a metre and a half in diameter.
It is played by 10 or more drummers all at once.
I guess that I have been to slow to recommend it for this year's WOMAD but the culture is disappearing, and it would be fantastic to record it. I am hoping to write something to incorporate this drumming, but it would be great if they were recorded professionally at the Real World Studios, before the culture is completely wiped out.
They are a very proud culture, and have 17 tribes. All of which have different dress codes. However they form a distinct separate culture together.
If you want to find out more, please email me at
the247s@yahoo.co.uk
or
temsuyanger@hotmail.com
Regards
Matt