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Nakagusuku Recording 1: Music, Anthropogenic Noise, Insect, Night
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This recording is one of a series collected from the Obon holiday of 2016, when the first recording trial of this project was taking place. Sanshin, drums, and a traditional Okinawan song are audible in this recording. The bush cricket Hexacentrus unicolor dominates the foreground, with the music in the background...
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Nakagusuku Recording 2: Anthropogenic Noise, Frog, Night
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In this recording, a frog (likely Rhacophorus viridis) is audible in the foreground and a rooster in the distance. Some distance vehicular traffic is also recorded.
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Nakagusuku Recording 3: Bird
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This recording features a morning chorus of birds, lead by the Japanese Paradise Flycatcher and Brown-eared Bulbul. Japanese White-eyes and Japanese Bush Warblers are also present in the background of the recording.
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Nakakanilwa kwimba mbele (Field Card)
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When I sing before an audience My voice breaks.' Stage fright is not the exclusive experience of any one people, it would appear.
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Nakakanilwa kwimba mbele (Track)
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When I sing before an audience My voice breaks.' Stage fright is not the exclusive experience of any one people, it would appear.
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Nakatiye (Field Card)
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"What a liar." Chorus: "Yes indeed, what a terrible liar." (Meant humourously) An attractive chorus with typical declining melody almost like a series of yodels.
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Nakatiye (Track)
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Only one of the two strings of this lute is stopped -- the other being used as a kind of drone. A very simple 5 note accompaniment is possible by this means, from the open string with three stopped notes together with the drone. A bent piece of midrib from a fowl's feather is fixed at the far end of the string to...
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Nakidema changu kake juma (Field Card)
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These short songs are used for waking up the people for their last mealthe second of the night during the fast Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1 - 2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The two membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes.
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Nakidema changu kake juma (Track)
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These short songs are used for waking up the people for their last meal—the second of the night during the fast Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1 - 2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The two membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes.
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