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Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire
The Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire (AIMP) were founded at the (Ethnographic Museum of Geneva) in 1944 by Constantin Brăiloiu. During a period of fifteen years he dedicated his work to collect, archive and edit ethnomusicological sound documents. As a result, the Collection Universelle de Musique Populaire Enregistrée (40 shellac records, 1951-58) and another collection called Musique Populaire Suisse (13 LPs, 1950-54) were edited. In the same time, Brăiloiu establishes an important archive collection based on his own field recordings, mainly Romanian recordings, and on other recordings coming from colleagues and world wide institutions like the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. After Brăiloiu’s death in 1958, the AIMP "fell asleep" until 1984. Louis Necker, who was at that time the director of the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva, employed the ethnomusicologist Laurent Aubert in order to revive and continue Brăiloiu’s work. Thanks to this new impulse, the old archive collection is enriched with thousands of new edited records (CDs and LPs) and with original field works. In the meantime, the editing activity resumes with the publication of numerous field recordings.
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Releases (200 total)
Afghanistan: Le Rubâb De Hérat = The Rubâb Of Herat
Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz1993
Turkestan Chinois / Xinjiang - Musiques Ouïgoures
Various1990
Turquie: Cérémonie Des Derviches Kadiri = Turkey: Ceremony Of The Kadiri Dervishes
Derviches Kadiri* = Kadiri Dervishes*1989
Zaïre: Entre Les Lacs Et La Forêt (La Musique Des Nande = The Music Of The Nande)
Nande1991
Serbie: Mémoire Tsigane / Serbia: Romany Musical Heritage
Tsiganes*2006
Serbie: Anthologie De La Musique Populaire Serbe / Serbia: An Anthology Of Serbian Folk Music
Various2006
Inde / India: Percussions Rituelles Du Kerala / Ritual Percussion Of Kerala - Vol. 1: Kshetram Vadyam
Various1998
Roumanie / Romania: Musiques Festives Du Gorj / Festival Music From Gorj
Various2009
Cambodge / Cambodia: Musiques De L'exil / Music Of The Exile
The Orchestra of the Khmer Classical Dance Troupe1992
Centrafrique / Central Africa: Musique Pour Sanza En Pays Gbaya / Sanza Music In The Land Of The Gbaya
Gbaya*1993
Roumanie / Romania - Musique Des Villages: Transylvanie (Drăguș Et Le Pays De L'Olt) / Village Music: Transylvania (Drăguș And The Olt Region)
Various2008
Roumanie: Musique De Villages / Olténie (Runc Et Les Villages Du Gorj) - Village Music From Romania / Oltenia (Runc And The Villages of Gorj)
Various1988
Mali: Musique Bambara Du Baninko = Bambara Music Of Baninko
Bambara1998
Roumanie: Musique De Villages / Moldavie (Fundu Moldovei Et Le Bucovine) - Village Music From Romania / Moldavia (Fundu Moldovei And Bukovina)
Various1988
Turkmenistan (La Musique Des Bakhshy)
Turkmen2010
Anthologie Musicale De La Péninsule Arabique = A Musical Anthology Of The Arabian Peninsula
Various1994
Poésie Chantée Des Bédouins = Sung Poetry Of The Beduins
Bédouins = Beduins*1994
Le Chant Des Femmes = Women's Songs
Various1994
Afrique Du Sud (Le Chant Des Femmes Xhosa) = South Africa (Xhosa Women's Songs)
The Ngqoko Women's Ensemble2003
Brésil : Enauené-Naué Et Nhambiquara Du Mato Grosso
Enauené-Naué* / Nhambiquara*1995
Inde = India: Percussions Rituelles Du Kerala = Ritual Percussions Of Kerala • Vol. 2: Tayambaka
Various1998
Madagascar: Accordéons Et Esprits Ancestraux = Accordions And Ancestral Spirits
Various2001
Pérou : Musique Des Awajún Et Des Wampis, Amazonie, Vallée Du Cenepa
Various2009
Asie Centrale - Les Maîtres Du Dotâr = Central Asia - The Masters Of The Dotâr: Ouzbékistan - Tadjikistan - Iran (Khorâsân) - Turkménistan
Various1993
Japon : L'épopée Des Heike
Junko Ueda1990
Nepal: Musique De Fête Chez Les Newar
Newar1989
Sénégal: Le Saoruba De Casamance = The Saoruba From Casamance
Various1997Sénégal: Le Saoruba De Casamance = The Saoruba From Casamance
Various1997
Musique À La Croisée Des Cultures = Music At The Crossroads
Various1995
Ouganda = Uganda: Ensembles Villageois Du Busoga = Village Ensembles Of Busoga
Busoga*1997
