--- VA Emuang <emuangv@...> wrote:
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> From: "VA Emuang" <emuangv@...>
> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:39:27 +0800
> Subject: Today for Indigenous People
>
> AKAR UMBI ~ Songs of the Dragon
>
> Album Launch at:
> O*RANGE (off Jalan Kia Peng, Kuala Lumpur)
>
> FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2002, AT 8.30 PM
>
> Come buy the album and support a project of
> extraordinary
> significance for an auspicious day.
>
> (More below)
>
> From http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/
>
> 9 August International Day of the World’s
> Indigenous People
>
> The world's population of indigenous people now
> numbers some 350
> million individuals representing over 5,000
> languages and cultures in
> more than 70 countries on every continent. Many
> live on the fringes
> of society, in sometimes precarious and
> impoverished conditions.
> Their material, environmental and spiritual
> situations, together with
> their world-views and intimate relationship
> with the land and natural
> resources, are particularly vulnerable to the
> impacts of
> globalization. The resulting instability,
> aggravated by dispossession
> from their land and natural resources, has
> disrupted the handing down
> of their cultural heritage from one generation
> to the next.
>
> "It is essential to know and understand the
> deeply spiritual special
> relationship between indigenous peoples and
> their land as basic to
> their existence as such and to all their
> beliefs, customs, traditions
> and culture. […] Their land is not a commodity
> which can be acquired,
> but a material element to be enjoyed freely."
> Study of the Problem of
> Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations,
> J. Martinez Cobo,
> United Nations Special Rapporteur (1987).
>
> UNESCO, along with the rest of the United
> Nations system, plays a
> crucial role in efforts to implement
> "partnership in action" for the
> International Decade of the World's Indigenous
> People (1995-2004)
> proclaimed by the General Assembly of the
> United Nations to
> "strengthen international cooperation for the
> solution of problems
> faced by indigenous people in such areas as
> human rights, the
> environment, development, education and
> health".
>
> UNESCO's approach to addressing the problems
> and expectations of
> indigenous people is rooted in respect for
> their holistic
> understanding of the world, within which
> development is to be
> achieved through education, science, culture
> and communication. The
> Organization strives to strengthen and enhance
> their identity, and to
> promote their accession to multicultural
> citizenship. It seeks to
> come closer to indigenous realities by
> strengthening the links and
> synergy connecting its various areas of
> competence, and encourages
> the:
>
> - adoption of national cultural policies that
> enhance indigenous
> cultural resources;
>
> - recognition of indigenous people's cultural
> rights;
>
> - protection of indigenous heritage, especially
> the intangible
> heritage;
>
> - active participation of indigenous
> communities in the management of
> sites, especially World Heritage Sites and
> sacred sites;
>
> - implementation of bilingual, intercultural
> education programmes;
>
> - appreciation of the value of the traditional
> knowledge at the heart
> of indigenous lifestyles and, the establishment
> of links between
> indigenous and non-indigenous scientific
> knowledge with a view to
> sustainable development;
>
> - participation of community members in
> democratic bodies at local
> and national levels;
>
> - development of media and means of
> communication suited to the needs
> of indigenous people.
>
> - "Indigenous communities, peoples and nations
> are those which,
> having a historical continuity with
> pre-invasion and pre-colonial
> societies that developed on their territories,
> consider themselves
> distinct from other sectors of the societies
> now prevailing in those
> territories, or parts of them. They form at
> present non-dominant
> sectors of society and are determined to
> preserve, develop and
> transmit to future generations their ancestral
> territories, and their
> ethnic identity, as the basis of their
> continued existence as
> peoples, in accordance with their own cultural
> patterns, social
> institutions and legal systems". Definition
> accepted by the United
> Nations Working Group on Indigenous
> Populations, from Study of the
> Problem of Discrimination Against Indigenous
> Populations, J. Martinez
> Cobo, United Nations Special Rapporteur (1987).
>
> +++++++++++++++++
>
> AKAR UMBI ~ Songs of the Dragon
>
> Album Launch at:
>
> O*RANGE (off Jalan Kia Peng, Kuala Lumpur)
>
> FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2002, AT 8.30 PM
>
> ++++++
>
> In September 1994, Temuan ceremonial singer Mak
> Minah caused a ripple
> of excitement in music circles when she sang
> "Hutan Manao" at a
> benefit concert for Bosnia staged in the
> colossal Shah Alam Stadium,
> before a live audience of 42,000.
>
> Mak Minah, a humble grandmother fresh from the
> Pertak forest reserve,
> found herself on stage with local recording
> artists like M. Nasir,
> Amy,
> Jamil Abdillah, and was photographed with
> reigning divas Sharifah
> Aini and Sahara Yaakob.
>
> Mak Minah's outstanding performance was
> telecast nationwide by RTM2
> and in the following months she was recognised
> everywhere she went.
> Mak Minah became a celebrity amongst the Orang
> Asli community and her
> group, AKAR UMBI, was twice invited to perform
> at the Rainforest
> World Music Festival in Sarawak.
>
> On September 21, 1999, three weeks after a very
> enjoyable time in
> Sarawak - and just two days before AKAR UMBI
> was scheduled to begin
> recording their debut album - Mak Minah
> suddenly passed away.
>
> And now, three years later, Mak Minah's soulful
> and unforgettable
> voice will be heard once more, when AKAR UMBI
> launches a CD called
> 'Songs of the Dragon' at the popular dance
> club, O*range (off Jalan
> Kia Peng, KL).
>
> Consisting of 10 tracks (plus a couple of bonus
> tracks), 'Songs of
> the Dragon' is an eclectic blend of "raw" and
> "processed" ritual
> healing songs from the Temuan tradition. Some
> songs are
> unembellished, with only voices and bamboo
> percussion (buloh limbong)
> while others have been "funkified" by arrangers
> and collaborators
> Rafique Rashid, Antares, and Cheong. Total
> playing time is almost an
> hour.
>
> The producers hope that the catchier numbers
> will be heard on the
> radio, danced to at discos, and picked up by
> the younger generation
> of Orang Asli and played at ceremonies and
> weddings.
>
> Retailing at RM38, the AKAR UMBI CD will be
> sold at RM33.30 at the
> launch and will be available online soon after
> the launch through
> Ragtime (Amir Yussof's music portal at
> www.amiryussof.com.my) as well
> as at selected retail outlets in the Klang
> Valley. Nationwide
> distribution rights are being negotiated and
> will be announced soon.
>
> ALL ARE WELCOME TO THE AKAR UMBI ALBUM LAUNCH
> AT O*RANGE (Jalan Kia
> Peng, KL) at 8.30 pm on Friday, August 9, 2002.
> There will be a live
> jam session featuring Temuan ceremonial singer
> Awa Anak Lahai and a
> few well-known local musicians, as well as a
> special video
> presentation.
>
>
> For more information please contact me at
> Antares@...
> (mobile 012-6706736)
>
> Antares
> Akar Umbi Project Coordinator & Producer
>
> http://www.xlibris.de/magickriver/akarumbi.htm
>
> About Mak Minah:
> http://www.xlibris.de/magickriver/minah.htm
>
>
>
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++
> Vernon Adrian Emuang
> "Metaphors be with you."
>
>


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