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Tape and the arrival of foreign field recordists in the Mediterranean

With the arrival of magnetic tape, recording became portable and high-quality. Ethnomusicologists from France, the United States, and other parts of the world traveled across the Mediterranean to capture local musical traditions at a time when modernity, industrialization, and the decline of rural life were transforming society and its customs.

These recordings were often released on labels in the countries of the researchers, but rarely in the regions where the music was created.

This episode of Aguaespejo, the final chapter of Mediaphone, a series on the early history of Mediterranean sound recording, focuses on these foreign field recordists. The program moves through three scenes (shepherds, weddings, and lullabies) mixing historic LPs with our some of my field recordings.


sonomayrit · sono mayrit - aguaespejo: mediaphone/tape, Radio Alhara, 22.02.25


Playlist

Shepherds

  1. Shepherd soundscape, Original field recording in Tarifa, 2025
  2. Anatolian shepherd’s music (kaval flute) - 1962, Turkey, En Passant par la Turquie - Musique de l’Anatolie Centrale
  3. Vajtim (shepherd tune) - 1965, Albania, Folk Music of Albania
  4. Ovdje Nam Je Zapjevati Dika - 1978, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia - Narodna Muzička Tradicija
  5. Sulfatara Jaw’s Harp Accompaniment - 1958, Italy, Music And Song Of Italy
  6. Mateixa - 1952, Spain, Alan Lomax Archive
  7. Ahaidou Shepherd’s tune - 1967, Morocco, Alan Lomax Archive
  8. Pastores Do Verde Prado - 1969, Portugal, Visages du Portugal - Le Chant du Monde
  9. Pastorale Natalizia - 1968, Musica Sarda Vol. 3 - Canti E Danze Tradizionali
  10. Čobanska Pesma Bez Reči - 1978, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia - Narodna Muzička Tradicija
  11. Po Čobanski - 1978, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia - Narodna Muzička Tradicija

Weddings

  1. Marriage song - 1972, Greece, Greece in Music & Song
  2. Street wdding, Original field recording in Rabat, 2025
  3. Salgan los señores novios - 1952, Spain, Alan Lomax Archive
  4. Choros Tou Gamou - 1976, Greece, Folk music of Northern Greece, Epirus & Macedonia
  5. Marcia Per Gli Sposi - 1957, Italy, The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Northern And Central Italy
  6. The Bride’s Song- 1976, Greece, Greek Folk Music Volume III – Wedding Songs
  7. Wedding Music - 1968, Tunisia, Tunisia, Vol. 3: Folk Music
  8. Wedding, Songs, Instrumental Dance Music - 1975, Yugoslavia, Music From The Island Of Krk, Yugoslavia
  9. Druse Wedding Song - 1957, Palestine, Arabic and Druse Music
  10. Dice la nuestra novia - 1956, Morocco, Ballads, Wedding Songs and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco
  11. Arabic Wedding Song - 1957, Palestine, Arabic and Druse Music

Lullabies

  1. Night at La Caleta, Original field recording, 2025
  2. Këngë Djepi - 1965, Albania, Folk Music of Albania
  3. Night at La Alameda, Original field recording, 2025
  4. Lullaby - 1972, Greece, _Greece in Music & Song
  5. Female lullaby - 1962, Turkey, En Passant par la Turquie - Musique de l’Anatolie Centrale
  6. Lullaby - 1968, Tunisia, Tunisia, Vol. 3: Folk Music
  7. Pátio da Reposeira, Field recording by Tiago CarvE, Portugal, 2025
  8. Faça Ai Ai Meu Menino - 1969, Portugal, Visages du Portugal - Le Chant du Monde
  9. Ninna-Nanna - 1957, Italy, The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Northern And Central Italy
  10. Solekha’s Lullaby, 1967, Morocco, Alan Lomax Archive
  11. Lullaby - 1964, Malta, Folk Songs and Music from Malta

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