PHILIPS DAVID FANSHAWE African Sanctus NM -

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TITLE    : African Sanctus

Conductor : Owain Arwel Hughes

Production : David Fanshawe

Side One :

1.      African Sanctus (3:03)

2.      Kyrie (2:38)

3.      Gloria (7:11)

4.      Chant Deo Gratias Credo (5:10)

5. Piano solo (3:43)

6. Et in Spiritum Sanctum (4:32)

Side Two :

1.      Crucifixus (6:10)

2.      African Sanctus(4:10)

3.      The Lord‘s Prayer(3:48)

4.      Chant “Qui tuum est regnum”

5.      Agnus Dei Kyrie (10:07)

6.      African Sanctus Gloria (3:12)

David Fanshawe :-------

“African Sanctus” began to evolve in the heat of summer whilst I was riding with Bedouin Nomads across the desert towards Egypt on a camel. That was in 1966 when I was studying at the Royal College of Music. Since then I have been on many hair-raising journeys and have recorded music from well over 50 tribes in Arabia and North and East Africa.

African music is fascinating, weird, and wonderful, but like so much folk-art it is rapidly vanishing and one of the main reasons why I wrote “African Sanctus” was thati felt, quite simply, that instead of just recording tribal music I could preserve and create my own music around it, thus adding many more colours and variations which would express my adventures and love of people in a composition where African music, African songs and dances, religious recitations and ceremonies would live within the heart of a work conceived along “Western” lines in the from of a Mass. The driving force is one of “Praise’ and a firm belief in “One God.”

“African Sanctus” attempts to fuse different peoples and their music into a tightly knit unit of energy and praise. It reflects the changing moods of music today and I hope moves with the times for we are all living and sharing life together on a very small planet.

My journeys are always exciting. Means of transport varies from walking, donkey-riding (terrible strain!), camel-riding (even worse strain!), paddle-steamer, canoe, jet, light aircraft, sailing dhow, and endless trucks and lirries across remote deserts and scrub. It is a relentless search.

In 1969 I hitch-hiked down the Nile through Sudan and into Uganda. In many ways that safari was my most fruitful; practically all the recordings----all extremely rare and valuable--in “African Sanctus” stem from that journey. In 1970 I returned again, traveling in a huge arc towards the Indian Ocean and ending up in a dug-out canoe on the Tana River. Whilst on the river I unfortunately hit a hippopotamus on the head with my paddle, the canoe upset, the tape-recorder drowned, and I was pursued hotfoot to the river bank. Finally, I sailed across the Ocean to the Island of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf where I had the good fortune to meet Judith who is now both my wife and traveling companion.

In 1972 with the help of the Sir Winston Churchill Memorial Trust we both returned to East Africa and were initiated as European members of the Taita Tribe ( a proud moment), got lost in the bush when my light aircraft crash-landed due to failing light, were thrown into a Tanzanian prison for recording the Royal Drums of the Sukumu Kings minus our shoes, and finally returned to the Phonogram Studios, London, to record the final version of “African Sanctus.”

The work began as a composition for choir and African tapes and was given an exhilarating first performance by the Saltarello Choir in July 1972; this perfomance was later broadcast on United Nations Day, October 24, 1972. Since then the work has developed (or moved with the times), as I have added twice as many drums and group. Now it is even being developed as a stage show based on the break-up of tribal law.

We have all been experimenting at the studios and I owe special thanks to sound engineer, Peter Olliff, whose patience and artistic wizardry have created a final balance  between the African and European elements at all times, a most critical one. I hope “African Sanctus” will stimulate and inform both listener and performer and that the total sound will reflect the music and people of African. what others have said in words, I have tried to say in music.

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LABEL     : Philips

NUMBER : 6558 001

Description : A Beautiful Copy Of This Audiophile Classic . A Fine Prize In The Annals Of World Music Literature, Entirely Worthy Of The Finest Vinyl Library . 1973 Made In Holland Comes With Insert Included .

RECORDS CONDITION : NM –

Note : The Vinyl Is Shiny With Just A Few Light Scuffs Marks On Both Sides, That Can Only Be Seen Under 100 Watts Bulb Strong Light .

COVER CONDITION      : NM -  (Gatefold)

Note : Minimal General Wear, No Writing, No Seam Split !

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