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| | Rykodisc Catalog - Utom: Summoning The Spirit, Music in the T'boli Heartland - Various (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | This collection of field recordings, made in 1995 by album producer Manolete Mora (author of the release’s extensive liner notes), captures the music of the T’boli, a group of approximately 80,000 people whose ancestral heartland is Lake Sebu on the Philippine island of Mindanao. |
 | | Mora, an ethnomusicologist who has spent a great deal of time in the Lake Sebu region, edited the material on this 67-minute collection down from many hours of recordings made amongst the T’boli people. |
 | | The utom compiled on Summoning The Spirit are performed on lute, bamboo zither, flute, fiddle, various forms of gong, mouth harp, percussion, and voice. |
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