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Hunters Who Lost Their Land - Betel Nut Brothers
$16.99
(cdRoots# tm-betel04)
fRoots says: Betel Brothers are four brothers and a cousin - Huegu, Docdoc, Budu, Abi and Wushin; a truck driver, a surgeon, a dance company assistant, a leader of a traditional Amis dance company and a grocer. All five, we are told, are hunters who have lost their land and traditional livelihood and adapted to the new ways in order to survive in the cities. Their music is their final stand to protect the last traces of Amis culture and dignity. These are protest songs, love songs, harvest songs, songs sung at the dismissal of a husband from when Taiwan was a matriarchal society, dance songs, songs of place, folk songs; all played on acoustic guitar, mostly strummed, no fancy finger picking, small percussion; and vocal melodies often bearing traces of what we Europeans would know as pentatonic South East Asian folk and pop tunes, of course.
Bura Bura Yan - Huegu and Doc Doc
$16.99
(cdRoots# trees-bura)
Huegu and Docdoc are two of the The Betel Nut Brothers from Taiwan, Amis farmers and hunters who have dedicated themselves to preserving the dying Amis culture. Simple folk songs on guitar, harmonica, percussion and the like, sung with passion and vitality.
The Migration Festival (CD/DVD set) - Various
$22.99
(cdRoots# trees-dvdmig)
Live recordings on music CD and NTSC-DVD video set (two separate discs) documents 2002 Migration Festival in Taiwan. Performers include Alom (Czech), Labour Exhange Band (Taiwan), Cracow Klezmer (Poland), Betel Nut Brothers (Taiwan) and Urna (Mongolia).
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