BULLROARERS, CATFISH TRUMPETS, LAUGHING ALLIGATORS, AND ALIEN FACE-PEELERS (OR GOLD MINERS WITH JETPACKS)

Lush Amazonian soundscapes (raw and cooked); bullroarers, catfish trumpets and laughing alligators; a documentary filmmaker who wants to get eaten by Indians; two friends, inspired by adventurous characters like Richard Evans Schultes and Werner Herzog, go to the northern amazon and experiment with sound machines; a news segment on alien face-peelers (or gold miners with jetpacks); an extra-terrestrial cumbia…

TRACKLIST

Whistle on Wire & Rhombe (Ashaninka Route – Arawak) and Along the River (Aguaruna Itinerary) from

Amazonia - Music, songs and natural sounds – Recorded by Xavier Bellenger (GREM – G 9112, 1991)

Bará (Tukano) Music from the Vaupés Region of Southeastern Colombia – The Bara Collection of Jean E. Jackson (n.d.)

Pirá-Paraná Yuruparí Music from the Vaupés Region of Southeastern Colombia – Recorded by Stephen Hugh-Jones and Christine Hugh-Jones (1968-1970)

Excerpt from the Laughing Alligator by Juan Downey (Museum of Modern Art, 1979)

Schultes navegando el Apaporis & Expedición Botánica – Vaupes-Uapes (Dada Phone, 2024)

News segment on Alien Face-peelers (Or Gold Miners on Jetpacks) in Alto Nanay, Peru

Afrosound - Cumbia de E.T. El Extraterrestre (Fuentes, 1983)

Chaco (Paraguay) and the Pantanal (South Mato Grosso) – Recorded by Richard Chapelle (Unidisc – UD 30 1293, 1977)