Scientific research currently determines that the human family tree is rooted in the Bushmen of southern Africa. This links all of us to a most genetically diverse people who today live on the flat and dry edge of the Kalahari Desert -- and the outer fringes of society. Over dozens of thousands of years, they have maintained a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, a sustainable harmony with the environment, a non-hierarchical egalitarian society and a rich spiritual culture as old as mankind itself. The San, or Bushmen, as they are commonly known, don't use metal, live in the toughest conditions with very little water, with minimal tools, on a low-calorie diet. And yet their unique outlook on the world, their utter genius in the wild, their enigmatic cheerfulness and striking charisma keeps impressing many of those who come in contact with these last survivors of the Earth's primal human population. The rest of the world has long lost the many skills that the Bushmen still pass to their children. We developed a totally different set of values -- with evolution through agriculture -- that bypassed these people. Their remnants today are still holding, along a comprehensive knowledge of the native environment, the most ancient and undiluted spiritual and healing practices on Earth.
credits
from Intersoul,
released September 27, 2014
the Ju/wa Bushmen of Nyae Nyae (Namibia) - chanting, clapping;
Ignat Karmalito - synthesizers, kalimba, nose flute, percussion, programming.
Composed, arranged, produced & mixed by Ignat Karmalito.
Additional mixing and mastering by Mitsukazu "Quincy" Tanaka @ Bernie Grundman Mastering (Tokyo).
Field recordings in the Namibian Kalahari made by Ignat Karmalito on February 28, 2013.
Other recordings & post-production done by Ignat Karmalito at Mobile Karma Lab.
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