Making our way through the southern towns of Belize where Garifuna communites are thriving, we were again offered an opportunity to meet with an incredible musician and part of living history,
Paul Nabor. His small abode in the town of Punta Gorda includes the room where he holds traditional Garifuna healing ceremonies; we felt quite honored to be in such a sacred and serene space. Here's the two videos of us performing "When Sorrows Encompass Me 'Round" for Mr. Nabor whose facial expression is priceless at the end end of the second clip. This is without a doubt one of my favorite performances we have had so far on this trip.
We were then most honored to have Mr. Nabor play his guitar and sing for us a few of his lastest compositions. While tuning up, he played a micro-cassette recording of a song through the overdrive chanell of an incredible little amp. I was blown away by the heavyness of the groove in his gutar part, the Pepsi bottle clave and the beautiful singing on top.
Check Alicia and Sarah's blogs for more clips of our visit with the incomparable Paul Nabor, snappysarah.blogspot.com
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I love this recording of the interaction of music and materials - both the mechanical mediums of transmission (the micro-cassette and the amp) and especially the views into and around the building, with all its openings and closings of light from wonderfully oblique angles and its horizontal lines of wood and sunshine: in a wonderful way the architecture (as is it here viewed via the video) seems to sing itself in harmony with the song, "When Sorrows Encompass Me 'Round."
ReplyDeleteLove,
Ann