Music From The Mountain Provinces / Various Music From The Mountain Provinces / Various LP Vinyl

In 1988, David Blair Stiffler risked life and limb to document under-recorded cultural groups living lives of extreme isolation in the mountainous Philippine regions of Nueva Ecija, Aurora, & Luzon. These are the fruits of that expedition. In the grand tradition of ethnographic recordings that made up the majority of Folkways' vast and significant catalog comes Music from the Mountain Provinces. By the mid-1980s, David Blair Stiffler was Already a most-decorated recordist, with eight Folkways LPs under his belt. These are among the most obscure documents in the entire Folkways catalog.

1. Kulintang: Badjao or Yakan Gong 2. Kalinga: Bamboo Zither I 3. Kalinga: Rice Winnowing Song 4. Kalinga: Bamboo Zither II 5. Bontoc: Violin 6. Kalinga: Bamboo Zither III 7. Npa: Nose Flute 8. Dumagat: Throat Singing 9. Kalinga: Group Singing with Gongs 10. Ilingot: Plucked Bamboo Zither 11. Maranoa: Lullaby 12. MNLF: Whistling