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1.1 Run, If You Can (Don't Go Down That Road)1.2 Family Secret1.3 Do You Hear Me Now?1.4 Lead Me Home1.5 Black Part of Town1.6 Illegal Factory (Smokestack Sighs)1.7 Africatown in Their Face1.8 Kept Me1.9 First Thing He Did When Freed Was Build a Drum1.10 Haunted By Her Capture1.11 Sent to Vietnam, But Never Been to Africa1.12 Only Black School1.13 Reconstructed Memory1.14 Cudjoe's Statue Defiled1.15 Birdsong Beside the Refinery1.16 Walk with Thee1.17 Graveyard Shift Emissions1.18 The Blues Returns (Taking Flight) |
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| Description: | A collection of landmark recordings of residents from the Africatown neighborhood in Mobile, AL, Ancestor Sounds features descendants from the Clotilda, the last ship to bring enslaved people across the Atlantic to America. Conceived by GRAMMY-winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott) and filmmaker and photographer Marilena Umuhoza Delli, the project features accompaniment from the local community as well as ambient recordings from the factories that surround and pollute the community. Meant as an impressionistic document rather than a definitive historical narrative, it was captured on-site as live, first takes. The outdoor nature of the recordings graphically renders the encroaching and ominous industrial sounds and foregrounds the environmental racism that has plagued the community. These surprising and often arresting "ancestor sounds" resonate across centuries and continents on this important, irreplaceable document. |
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| No. of tracks: |
18 |
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| Manufacturer No.: |
DIRT0115 |
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