Ankh: The Sound of Ancient
Egypt
Michael Atherton
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$15.45
Editorial Reviews
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This album is based on a challenging idea: Try to recreate a musical form from a culture and period that left behind no recordings or musical notation, using only history, a description of the instruments, and some historical artifacts. It takes intuition as much as scholarship and craftsmanship to recreate the ancient instruments of Egypt--from simple percussion and flutes to boat-shaped and triangular harps and trumpets.
Atherton, with his musicians and singers, exhibits both innovation and skill, offering not so much a look at how the music actually was, but more an intuitive guess at how it might have been, keeping the music first and history a close but well-heeled second. It can be frantic one moment and somber the next, as each of these lengthy song suites develops organically around a song or a piece of poetry--offering both early music and improvisational music aficionados something unique. Excellent recording quality is augmented by well-documented notes on history and instrumental research. --Louis Gibson
Product Details
Audio CD
:
(August 18, 1998)
Original Release Date
:
July 17, 1998
Number of Discs
:
1
Label
:
Celestial Harmonies
ASIN
:
B00000AEP0
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