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Ewe Girls with Drums and Rattles. Again just a single track using the stereo split method. Very busy soundscape, liked this one.

Singing Girls with Claps. Three samples of clapping and singing using the stereo split of between 24-44 seconds, the singing sounds a little undisciplined !, though none the worse for that.

Sad Songs with Light Percussion. Two tracks of 9 stereo split samples, and they really do sound miserable !, especially when compared to the generally upbeat nature of much of the rest of the CD. Percussion just consists of clinking sound - not quite sure what - sounds like bamboo being hit together but sure it isn't.

Male Singing. 4 tracks of 28 samples of various single and group male voices, most in a call/response vein. I more easily see a use for these types of samples, being able to be dropped in to many genres of music. Liked this section.

Moaning Women with Atmosphere. 5 tracks 21 samples of atmospheres, lamenting, moaning, chanting, chickens, baby crying, coughing and so forth. Quite genuine emotion here as they are mourning the death of a child. Some of these are rather noisy, not in the production, but in the "atmosphere". A couple of these samples are very usable, especially those on track 63 (if you can cut out the coughing on a couple !).

Male Singers. 1 track of 8 samples, though the first one sounds just like rain plus distant drums. Similar in nature to the "male singing" section above, unsure why its not grouped there, but same comments apply.

Work Song. 3 tracks of 15 samples, with what sounds like real heavy breathing over them - though its actually a grinding sound. There are both male and female singing here, generally just one person. Wish the grinding sound could have been left out, rather dominates this singing, or used the stereo method to but the voices on one side and the grinding on the other. Although for an idea the rhythmical grinding noise could morph into a kick drum for the lead in to a dance track perhaps.

Distant Drumming/Singing. 2 long samples, the first over a minute, lighter percussion than before, though the call/response nature of the singing is similar to previous tracks.

Singing with Drumming. 4 tracks with a single sample on each, similar to the last section some lighter percussion is apparent here.

Musical Bow with Singing. 4 tracks of 26 samples of a percussive sounding bow some samples have a single male or children singing along, and a couple a little percussion. A little variety is offered here, sounds like a cross between a sitar and jewish harp sort of sound if you can imagine that.

Xylophones. 21 tracks of 147 samples. Not the little steel ones that you may have played at school or had as a present when you were a child. There is also some other percussion mixed in here as well from place to place, together with a few voices on some of the samples. You get a whole range of xylophone loops, some to my ears sounds rather chaotic, some quite simple others more structured. Probably every xylophone loop is here that you could ever want ! Track 98 gives just single hits.


 

 

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