May Your Days
From Julie Shapiro | 10:44
Ghana sounds like everything you might imagine, and some things you never could.
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While I traveled around Ghana in January, 2008, certain sounds jumped into my recorder, like: kiddo handclaps, the pounding of fufu in Circle Market, Empress Olivia and her kpash kposh, screaming insects, screaming birds, screaming bats, one very hungry goat, fishermen singing while hauling in an enormous net from the Gulf of Guinea, the unmistakable cacophony of a tro-tro station, an unexpected pop song blaring from streetside speakers, the deep rhythms of a wedding celebration and glorious live music from a front porch.
Postcards from Africa
From Jake Warga | 06:43
Personal encounters in homes and streets of various African towns. I first went to Africa feeling like a child, everything new and different, but soon enough I grew-up. Sound-rich with music and tape.
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Sample:I know enough French to say “Leave me alone please.” But not enough to say, “Go home to your family if they will have you, don’t sell yourself to strangers. Use condoms. AIDS is not worth the money. Be sure to be a child before you have one.”
I am looking at a young woman who lost her childhood—seduced by an empty urban culture. She stumbles away, disappearing into the choking red dust of a cruel African street.
Antillanca
From Ed Herrmann | Part of the Wake Up and Hear the Roses series | 03:10
A sound postcard from Antillanca, a ski resort in Chile. It's summer, so only the animals are there.
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Exotic sounds from a fog drenched forest in the Andes.