Cat No:
DIRT0115
Release Date: 08 March 2024
Label: Free Dirt Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 877746011528
Genres: Folk Experimental
-
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, Zomba Prison Project) and his wife, Italian Rwandan filmmaker and photographer Marilena Umuhoza Delli, the project features musical 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, all recordings were 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. Years before, in rural northern Ghana, Brennan had been struck by a hand painted "Alabama Barbershop" sign. This seemed particularly telling given the region's link to the transatlantic slave trade. In another uncanny parallel, a Blues musician in Mobile pulled out a Kologo, a northern Ghanaian instrument, which he knew by another name. These surprising and often arresting "ancestor sounds" resonate across centuries and continents on this important, irreplaceable document.
-
Tracklisting
- 1. Run, If You Can (Don't Go Down that Road)
- 2. Family Secret
- 3. Do You Hear Me Now?
- 4. Lead Me Home
- 5. Black Part of Town
- 6. Illegal Factory (Smokestack Sighs)
- 7. Africatown in Their Face
- 8. Kept Me
- 9. First Thing He Did When Freed Was Build a Drum
- 10. Haunted by Her Capture
- 11. Sent to Vietnam, But Never Been to Africa
- 12. Only Black School
- 13. Reconstructed Memory
- 14. Cudjoe's Statue Defiled
- 15. Birdsong Beside the Refinery
- 16. Walk With Thee
- 17. Graveyard Shift Emissions
- 18. The Blues Returns (Taking Flight)
Disc 1
Side 1
-
-
Strange Medicine
Kaia Kater
- Regular
- £13.99 - £21.99
- Sale
- £13.99 - £21.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Chronicling the Times
Leon Rosselson
- Regular
- £13.99 - £23.99
- Sale
- £13.99 - £23.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Cadence
Cinder Well
- Regular
- £13.99 - £21.99
- Sale
- £13.99 - £21.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Spider Tales
Jake Blount
- Regular
- £13.99 - £19.99
- Sale
- £13.99 - £19.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Narrow Line
Mama's Broke
- Regular
- £13.99 - £21.99
- Sale
- £13.99 - £21.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Hurricane Clarice
Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
- Regular
- £13.99 - £21.99
- Sale
- £13.99 - £21.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno
Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno
- Regular
- £13.99 - £18.99
- Sale
- £13.99 - £18.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
- Regular
- £13.99
- Sale
- £13.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
PRE-ORDER
Cosmic Light Clusters
Eclectic Maybe Band
- Regular
- £12.99
- Sale
- £12.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
PRE-ORDER
Life isn't a Fountain?
U
- Regular
- £16.99
- Sale
- £16.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
PRE-ORDER
Safe Operating Space
Tullis Rennie
- Regular
- £11.99
- Sale
- £11.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
NEW RELEASE
Time and Spaceheads
Spaceheads
- Regular
- £58.99
- Sale
- £58.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
The Residents Present Buy Or Die! RaLPh Records 1972...
Various Artists
- Regular
- £23.99
- Sale
- £23.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
3
Saagara
- Regular
- £11.99 - £20.99
- Sale
- £11.99 - £20.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Coexistence
Dal:um
- Regular
- £11.99 - £20.99
- Sale
- £11.99 - £20.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per
Instrumentory
Neil Feather
- Regular
- £28.99
- Sale
- £28.99
- Regular
-
Unavailable
- Unit Price
- per