The Hadza bushmen from Tanzania are now less than 1000. As a
consequence of poverty, government’s attempts at compelling them to
settle down, the rarefaction of game, and alcoholism, this nomadic
tribe of hunters-gatherers whose life style date back to the stone age,
is in danger of becoming extinct. These rare recordings with detailed
liner notes, including the translation of the songs, make us discover
this people, alas very fragile. One CD presents the music forms which
punctuate the daytime tasks and the moments of rest in the shade of the
bush trees, the other is devoted to moonless night music nighttime,
linked with animist ceremonies (ngomas).
