Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Primitivization of Sri Lankan music

Today I listened to the audio CD titled "Maitres De Sri Lanka: Masters of Sri Lanka" (Jouffa, François. Maitres De Sri Lanka: Masters of Sri Lanka. France: Frémeaux, 2007. CD.). It contains 15 audio tracks. According to the producers it contains "an art that is disappearing expressed by its last great masters". This maybe true to ....as it present some recordings of  tovil ritual. However, overall this CD misguides the audience about Sri Lankan ritual music and dance. To me this production is a fake spiritualization music recorded in Sri Lanka. Eleven out of fifteen tracks contains keyboard instrument and/or string instruments, which is totally absent in traditional ritualistic music. It even included the song "Premayen mana ranjitha we...." that is composed by Ediriweera Sarachchandra in Maname, a modern Sinhala drama staged in 1956. I would argue that this is a sheer primitivization of Sri Lankan music.

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