Various Artists - Music of a Sherpa Village / VariousIn 1973, anthropologist John M. Bishop recorded music of the remote village of Melemichigaon, Nepal. With influence from Tibet, this Nepalese music is characterized by unison singing and occasional accompaniment on the damian, a stringed instrument in the lute family that provides a strong rhythmic base. The musicians generally sing in Helambu (a Sherpa Tibetan dialect) and sometimes in Tibetan on themes of religion, a desire for material wealth, the

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