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The Baltic Sister @ Viljandi Folk Music Festival X Petites Planètes

Cuckoo song

Sese sodu sodina

Tumsīnā, vakarā

[erkhyan]

Tsimilefy isn’t good with words and can barely read. While the latter would only become an issue for him in his later occupation (as one half of a courier team), he has always used his skill as an athlete to cover up his shame at being unable to handle even the most basic traditional speeches that all men are expected to know.

Fehizoro has below-average dexterity. He went from being a notoriously clumsy kid to being the teenager who got bruised and injured more often than anyone else during the athletic activities expected from boys his age.

As teenagers, Tsimilefy and Fehizoro initially bonded over a shared interest in the game of fanorona and playing the sodina flute. Their friendship was quickly cemented when they realized they could coach each other to deal with their respective weaknesses.

Like many young people his age, Fehizoro has had a couple of sexual experiences before, all of them with girls who quickly moved on to more enthusiastic partners. It would be a few years before he realized that his sexual orientation is basically “Tsimilefy”.

As a semi-popular athlete, Tsimilefy has been pursued by more than a few—women mostly, but also a few men. But while he has gladly indulged in most of these trysts, he never quite “clicked” with them, either because of his insecurities or because of theirs.

Fehizoro initially hid his budding attraction to Tsimilefy out of embarrassment, but given all the time they spent around each other, it really didn’t take long for Tsimilefy to catch on to what was happening. A first sexual tryst quickly followed. Exactly one year after that, they became each other’s first romantic partners.

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Tarika Rakoto Frah - “Zanak’iza” A World Out of Time, Volume 3: Music of Madagascar 1996 Sodina Music / Malagasy Music / World Music

I’m going to do something a bit different with today’s post and write about music that hardly any of us are ever exposed to. For whatever reasons, African music doesn’t get much attention in North America or Europe and that’s really just a total shame. But over the years, there have been two American men, both accomplished guitarists and ethnomusicologists, Henry Kaiser and David Lindley, who have been able to successfully bring African music to American shores. And one of the greatest focuses of their long-running project has been the wide variety of music from the island nation of Madagascar

.Resting in the Indian Ocean and located off of Africa’s southeast coast, Madagascar can probably claim itself as the continent’s most unique country. Because of a culture that mixes Indian, Middle Eastern, Polynesian, and South African traditions, the Malagasy people have consistently managed to generate some of the world’s most extraordinary and inimitable music. And up until 1991(!), nearly all of America remained completely oblivious to that fact. But that began to change when Kaiser and Lindley returned from Madagascar with about six CDs worth of recorded material. The result was a series called A World Out of Time, named after a photo-book by the same name that depicts Madagascar’s beauty.

One of the musicians that Lindley and Kaiser had the pleasure of meeting and recording was perhaps Madagascar's most famous: Rakoto Frah. In his 60s at the time, Rakoto Frah had already lived quite the life. He had risen to national fame decades earlier as a master of the sodina (a native flute made of bamboo) and he famously played when French president Charles de Gaulle came for an important visit. He was also featured on Malagasy currency!

By the time Kaiser and Lindley had met Rakoto Frah, he was already a known entity on the world music circuit, though still virtually unknown to Americans. The liner notes from the second volume of A World Out of Time heap a ton of praise upon him:

Rakoto Frah is one of the most amazing master musicians and individuals anywhere, by any standards. His mastery of the sodina is at a level that you could only compare to other great, instrumental masters like John Coltrane, Ali Akbar Khan, Billy Pigg, Bill Monroe, or Miles Davis. Rakoto Frah certainly seems to know mysterious things about the phrasing of melodies that nobody else knows. During Rossy [another Malagasy musician] & Rakoto Frah's American tour, Ornette Coleman remarked to Rossy and Henry that Rakoto Frah must be the greatest phraser on the planet. Rakoto Frah says he has written over 500 songs [he tapped out at about 800 before his death in 2001]. He seems to have been present at many of the major political and cultural moments of 20th century Malagasy history. He's a real character. Rakoto Frah, paradoxically, is wise & crazy, young & senile, traditional & eccentric, foolish & crafty, con man & exemplary citizen, dark & light...all at the same time.

Not mentioned in those liner notes is that Ian Anderson, the lead flutist of Jethro Tull, also counted Rakoto Frah as one of his biggest influences. I wonder how Anderson discovered him.

One of the many things that Rakoto Frah became renowned for were his performances at famadihana ceremonies (the "turning of the bones"), a sacred funerary Malagasy tradition, described by Musical Traditions Magazine in the following way:

Famadihana ceremonies feature troupes of sodina and amponga (a European-derived military-style drum) players. The events are rooted in the immense respect which the Malagasy people show their ancestors, manifesting in day or even week long celebrations of the dead. Far from being sombre or macabre occasions, they are infused with joy and celebration, reflected in the wild, frenetic music that the musicians play for dancing (to please the dead).

It's not stated anywhere in the liner notes from A World Out of Time's third volume, but I'm willing to bet that the song I'm posting today, "Zanak'iza," which is performed by Rakoto Frah's band, Tarika Rakoto Frah, is from a performance at a famadihana ceremony.

Feast your ears upon this song because it's probably one of the most novel pieces of music you’ll ever hear. "Zanak'iza" has no formulaic song composition like the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus structures we’re largely accustomed to in North America and Europe. The amponga in this song isn't there to hold a steady rhythm and there's no consistency to the multitudes of sodinas that concurrently play. "Zanak'iza" is free flowingly virtuosic and its unpredictability is key in just about every way. It's that level of unexpectedness, that total mystery of what sets of notes or rhythms are to cone next that keeps the listener so engaged. And it's amazing how just two types of instruments, flutes and drums, can combine to produce music like most of the rest of the world has never heard or ever come close to imagining.

A stunning piece of music from this Malagasy master of the sodina and his band. Really incredible stuff.

[yuenri]

I'm not yet comfortable in taking WIP videos TTATT so here's a photo of a much cleaner version of the sketch =)) This is Sodina from the PS1 Game "Thousand Arms". Yep, nostalgia hit me. #Sodina #ThousandArms #PS1 #fanart #yuenriart #digitalart #art

[bezesta]

Un orchestre malgache (1913) Ph. Chase Salmon Osborn

"Les instruments de gauche à droite : sodina, lamako, jejilava, valiha, apongalahy, jejy voatavo, antsiva"

[hedgewolf-hunters]

Day off

Private RP with @aki-moondemon-cat18

Bane wonders around inside Castle Barok trying to calm his nerves as he climbs up the master stairwell.

"First day off in a few months Bane. Just calm down. Sodina will probably be happy to spend the day with you." Bane says to himself as he walks towards the fourth floor.

"I don't know young king, women can be such fickle things." Jacko the ghost of the castle says through the wall. Bane stops for a second to punch a hole in the castle wall.

"Keep your mouth shut clown. Gods how I wish the first queen hadn't cursed you to this damned castle. But then death was too good for the one who killed her husband and children." Bane says as he continues up while the wall slowly rebuilds. Jacko huffs and remains silent as Bane reaches his destination.

"Behave yourself Jacko. Otherwise my brother and sisters have been given permission to do more than a little damage while I'm gone." Bane says as he opens the door to the grand library where a portal sits open at all times. Bane walks up to it and pokes his head through.

"Sodina you in here?" Bane calls out as he comes through the other side into her zone inside her oracle chamber.

[chauvinisme]

„Mėsininkas, kaip visada, padūsauja apie blogą kraują ir eina namo. Berniukas, matyt, bijo tuščių, seniai netvarkomų kambarių ir sėdi tylėdamas, sunėręs pirštus ant pilvo kaip senis. Su juo dar sunkiau negu su jo tėvu. Aš juokinu jį, net mėginu vaikščioti ant rankų. Jis žiūri į mane nemirksėdamas, išplėstom akim ir tyli, nesišypso. Aš klausiu jį:

– Ką tu mėgsti? Na, ką tu mėgdavai?

– Pasakas...

Aš nežinau gerai nė vienos pasakos, niekas man jų nesekdavo, bet man nesunku visur matyti pasaką. Aš žiūrėjau į iškritusį iš lizdo paukštytį ir pasakojau berniukui apie jį, bet taip, lyg jis gyvas būtų.

– Taip, paukščiukas gyvas, ir bus jis visada gyvas. Paukščiai irgi gimsta, kaip žmonės. Aš ir tu, mes visi gimėm, – bet sakoma, kad paukščiai prasikala. Mažas paukščiukas prasikalė, motina jį apgaubė sparnais, ir jis dabar žinojo, kad visa, kas gera ir šilta, vadinasi motina. Jis išlindo iš po motinos sparno ir krūptelėjo: buvo tamsu, girdėjosi kažkokie baisūs, bet įdomūs garsai. Jis sužinojo, kad tai jų namai – medžiai šniokščia...

– Tau įdomu? – paklausiau berniuką.

Aš galėjau pasakoti visą naktį.

– O jų namai – medžiai? – atsakė berniukas.

– Na taip, ir jie gyvena...

– O medžiai kapinėse patys auga ar juos sodina? – paklausė mėsininko sūnus.

Aš pakilau nieko nesakydamas, beveik šiurkščiai paraginau berniuką, atidaviau jį mėsininkui ir ėmiau kopti tamsiais laiptais kabindamasis turėklų į savo kambarį.“

S. Šaltenis. „Atostogos“

[bukimevieningi]

Kitas į kalėjimą sės Kazimieras Juraitis? (video)

Kitas į kalėjimą sės Kazimieras Juraitis? (video)

Tai, kad šiandien į kalėjimą sodina sistemai (o teisingiau, Landsbergių režimui) nepatogius asmenis, jau niekam ne paslaptis. Paaiškėjo, kad toks pat likimas laukia ir visiems gerai žinomo visuomenininko, publicisto Kazimiero Juraičio. Įdomiausia yra tai, kad Kazimierą į kalėjimą nori pasodinti mums visiems gerai žinomas veikėjas, kurį daugelis laiko savu. Apie tai ir daugiau – su Kazimieru video…

[vakarisdubauskas]

2020.09.21 „Mažvydo“ pasirinkta scena iliustravimui.

Buvo paskirta užduotis išklausyti, arba pažiūrėti Justino Marcinkevičiaus kūrinį „Mažvydas“, ir šiandieną buvo aptartos ryškiausios ir labiausiai įsiminusios, ar didelę vertę turinčios scenos iš šio kūrinio. Aš pats pasirinkau sceną, kai špitolninkai randa ąžuoliuką, kurį atnešė Nemuno upe, ir jį sodina. Scenoje matomas didelis Mažvydo noras, kad ąžuoliukas prigytų. Taigi sekančiame darbe bandysiu atkartoti ir nupiešti štai šią sceną, nes nesu labai gabus piešime, todėl turiu idėją kaip šią scena galbūt išeitų pavaizduoti paprasčiau ant lapo.

Apie kūrybinę užduotį: Tema: Martynas Mažvydas Idėja: Martyno Mažvydo lietuvių kalbos ir dvasios išsaugojimas.

Idėjos įgyvendinimas:

Tolumoje matosi Nemuno srovės nešamas ąžuoliukas. Priartėja prie špitolninkų, ir matoma kaip jie traukia ąžuoliuką iš vandens. Tada Mažvydas ranka moja ir rodo špitolninkams nešti ąžuoliuką prie iškastos duobės, ąžuoliukas pasodinamas. Šaknys skverbiasi į žemę, ąžuoliukas sužydi ir virš jo atsiranda žodis LIETUVA. Visas veiksmas vyksta prie Nemuno kranto ir rotušės aikštėje kur sodinamas ąžuoliukas.

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Thousand Arms

Dating Sodina

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‪Lovely Phnom Penh City, View From Sim Boutique Hotel, Cambodia 🇰🇭 ‬ ‪© Sodina. All rights reserved‬

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Today’s compilation:

A World Out of Time: Henry Kaiser & David Lindley in Madagascar 1992 Malagasy Folk / African Folk / Folk / World Music

African music doesn’t get much attention in North America or Europe and that’s really just a total shame. But over the years, there have been two American men, both accomplished guitarists and ethnomusicologists, Henry Kaiser and David Lindley, who have been able to successfully bring African music to American shores. And one of the greatest focuses of their long-running project has been the wide variety of music from the island nation of Madagascar.

Resting in the Indian Ocean and located off of Africa’s southeast coast, Madagascar can probably claim itself as the continent’s most unique country. Because of a culture that mixes Indian, Middle Eastern, and South African traditions, the Malagasy people have consistently managed to generate some of the world’s most extraordinary and inimitable music. And up until 1991(!), nearly all of America remained completely oblivious to that fact. But that began to change when Kaiser and Lindley returned from Madagascar with about six CDs worth of recorded material. The result was a series called A World Out of Time, named after a photo-book that depicts Madagascar’s natural beauty.

So, yes, if you're a world music fan, this is an album that's definitely worth checking out, just for the sheer uniqueness of the combinations of instruments and the melodies and rhythms that those combos produce.

But the one song you really need to hear, world music fan or not, is this instrumental led by a guy named Tarika Rakoto Frah who leads with his bamboo-made flute instrument called the sodina on "The Rakoto Frah Two-Step." This guy, by those that know him, is simply regarded as one of the greatest flautists who has ever lived. The liner notes from the second volume of the World Out of Time series heap a ton of praise on him, comparing him to other masters of their instruments, like John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Another jazz legend, Ornette Coleman, remarked that Rakoto Frah was the greatest phraser in the world and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull has said that he's drawn influence from him as well.

"The Rakoto Frah Two-Step" is a mesmerizing work of country-folk-styled guitar, a shuffling drumbeat, and Rakoto Frah's sodina skills. From listening to it, you understand that these World Out of Time liner notes are not overexaggerating in the slightest bit about his ability to play his instrument; they are, in fact, dead-on. The man was truly one of a kind.

And coincidentally, "The Rakoto Frah Two-Step" is the only song that AllMusic regards as this album's one true highlight, which is something I fully agree with. Nothing else on this album comes close to approaching its level of magic.

Highlights:

Tarika Rakoto Frah - "The Rakoto Frah Two-Step"