Suku Talang Mamak Tribe and Pati Laman Terimaksi Sekali Pentas-Thank You Performance

Incorrect e-mail previousl! mail; adamjbarker@yahoo.co.uk please. THIS VIDEO : Thank You performance at Talang Mamak village, home of headman Patih Laman. Patih Laman is a Talang Mamak Headman, in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Talang Mamak are an amazing traditional people who are real forest dwellers. Unfortunately, as you may know, so much of their lands, so much of Sumatra and Indonesia is having it's forest cleared for palm oil and acacia plantations, sad indeed.... Patih Laman is a truly remarkable and very amazing person indeed! Very wise, generous, kind and strong, a true leader. He very kindly put me up as his guest in his family longhouse for several days. I had a wonderful time there. I spent much time with the children, swimming, playing music, climbing trees for beetle nuts and doing Capoeira/Yoga/Kung-Fu-Silat kind of stuff... The night prior to leaving I was invited to an incredible night Ceremony, which of all the ceremonies and performances I have ever seen was truly incredible, beautiful, mesmersining and enchanting! It was a real good traditional one, so no filming, photos or recording-thank goodness. It was just for the spirits as it were. As I understand it, it was made to thank 'them' for the recovery of a community member who had been ill. I made my subsequeant, leaving and thank you performance on Patih Laman's request, strangely I had been thinking of making one, but had decided not to, then Patih Laman himself asked me if I would or was going to do something: did he read my mind? Or I his? Or both of us the Spirits? I don't know for sure, butt we were sharing so much of the same mind-set-Dreaming some how.... or so it seems... Anyway, I really enjoyed making this thank you performance, it sure was fun and I really meant it! This video doesn't show the performance-ritual, creation of and description of space to audience... I use three instruments, Didge, Mouth Bow and Berimbau; I don't know anyone else 'out here' who plays mouth bow like this-in some remote tribes they do, but it is one of my very favourite instruments, the oldest stringed instrument, way older than the newer Berimbau-Urukongo- style instruments popularised by Brasilian percussionists and Capoeiristas-it was played prior to and post hunting expeditions. I often play on a regular bow, with a gut string. I also use gut string on Berimbau at times, for a more old school, indigenous sound, it's great.....Various people such as the Mbuti-Efe, Aka... once so called Pygmy people have a version but they evidently didn't sing over it,, as when I showed a player of this technique, they seemed really surprised! Several Native American peoples certainly played their hunting;/war bows and sung and told stories as they did so and of course various so called Bushmen peoples play such instruments-they are top a real, real tremendous pleasure to play, very, very mesmeric and enchanting indeed and handy if one should sense game in teh vicinity. This is part of "The First Peoples Music-Theatre and Indigenous Education Project," which is dedicated to preserving not only ancient musical and song traditions but the Indigenous Cultural bedrock and seed cultures which sustain them. It is also aimed to help 'reindigenise' contemporary culture and cross- fertilise -share goodness- between traditions, people and places....
Note; If you like comedy see my "Brigadier Barkers Snow time River Dip" also!

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