Track Listings (15) - Disc #1| All Artists: Tahitian Choir Title: Rapa Iti Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Triloka Records Release Date: 9/24/1992 Album Type: Import Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Pop Styles: Ambient, Pacific Islands, Tahiti Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 744447719223, 044447719248, 4010394019225, 669910102954, 744447719247 |
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The 126 a cappella voices heard on this 1991 field recording are not actually from Tahiti but from the island of Rapa (a.k.a. Oparo), a thousand miles southeast from Tahiti, the last outcropping of land in the South Pacifi... more » |
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Amazon.com The 126 a cappella voices heard on this 1991 field recording are not actually from Tahiti but from the island of Rapa (a.k.a. Oparo), a thousand miles southeast from Tahiti, the last outcropping of land in the South Pacific before Antarctica. The island's very isolation has allowed it to preserve a unique choral tradition based on quarter-tone harmonies, three-against-two rhythms, tenor-against-alto counterpoint, soprano trilling and bass-voice drones, and percussive exhalations. All 15 selections on this album date back to the days before the island's first encounter with Europeans in 1791 and have a distinctly non-Western character. The music's eerie strangeness is combined with an unmistakable beauty that made this album a surprise hit on the worldbeat charts. --Geoffrey Himes Similar CDsSimilarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsOther worldly and joyful 05/23/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "The reviewer above gives you the technical reasons for the other worldly feel to this album. What is missed is the sheer sense of joy of singing that this album conveys. I think it is that quality which makes this album so successful. I would like to comment on the statement that all of the songs are pre-contact with Europeans. #3-Himeme Tatou is the hymn "Once I was bound by sin's galling fetters..." copywrited in 1917 and renewed in 1945 by the Nazarene Publishing House. I also believe #13 is another hymn but I can't quite place it. Maybe someone else can.I highly recomment this album to anyone who would like to hear something different and joyful."
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