I just found out about this having read a support document my music teacher set up through Google Docs. I've never heard anything like this and wanted to do a little more research. This is a great example of culture influencing an artist's music!
What you need to know, according to the website, is:
What you need to know, according to the website, is:
- Last Voices from Heaven: Siva Pacifica is the adventure of Anthony Copping's search for the untouched indigenous music of the South Pacific
- The documentary created about Copping's adventures is now a National Geographic documentary film
- Spanned over 15 years
- Anthony with his Pacific brother Pascal Oritaimae, made an album that preserves Melanesian culture - something greatly important in an ever modernizing world
- An artistic representation of Melanesia's past and the outside world that threatens to consume it
- Melanesia is not a country, but a culture area (a term used by anthropologists that refers to a graphical region where people share many of the same traits: family structure, organisation of society, making a living, marriage rules...)
- Melanesia includes the following islands: New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands
This is such a great example behind the reasons people write music. The importance of preserving culture through music is something that we should all be more open to. It's really quite amazing!