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Uchronia – Field Recordings From Alternate Realities

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	1.	Amplified Balafon 01:39
	2.	Shoe vendors, central market 01:04
	3.	Digital sampler, rhythm variation 02:03
	4.	Musical street prophet 03:24
	5.	Balani compositions, rhythm box 01:53
	6.	Homemade instrument, bike cable 00:48
	7.	Bambara affirmations, relaxation cassette 02:28
	8.	Neba Solo, taxi radio 01:59
	9.	Art school musicians 01:17
	10.	Oudin coil streetlamp 00:32
	11.	Radio intermission, kora 02:07
	12.	Song for Mansa Abu Bakr II, Oumou Diabate 02:45
	13.	Gospel rock band "Shine" 03:54
	14.	Video game music, street side 02:22
	15.	Parade for Mansa Abu Kakr II celebration 01:06
	16.	Traditional curatives vendor 00:43
	17.	Takamba with modular synth 04:08
	18.	Percussion game, horses 00:43
	19.	Electronic talking drum, tamanin 02:27
	20.	Balafon and calabash improvisation 03:43
	21.	Riverside field recording 01:22
	22.	Malinke song, clarinet 01:21

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Ethnographic documentation of a fictional Bamako where Abubakari II 'discovered' America. Musical recordings of future manding, bamako nu-wave, hip hop visionaries, and the sounds of an imagined geography. Includes 60 page booklet of photographs. Collaboration between photographer Maciek Pozoga and musicologist Christopher Kirkley, and Bamako’s prominent artists, ethnologists, futurists, musicians, and designers. Soundtrack for the exhibition "Uchronia : The Unequivocal Interpretation of Reality."

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released July 1, 2015

Musicians: Luka Productions, Youssouf Drame, Djibril Diallo, Ousmane Wattara, Karissa Diabate, Oumou Diabate, Daouda Dao, Soya Diaby, Sallymata Sakileba.

Recorded and produced by Christopher Kirkley. Produced at Redbull Studios Paris. Sound engineer, Thibault Jaboy. Mastered by Benjamin Joubert. Artwork and photography, Maciek Pozoga.

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