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'Women of the Calabash' is a new addition to the series of remarkable productions by Skip Blumberg, all of them ideally suited for showing on television. This is a recording of a performance by the black African choral group of the same name. The group of four women sing songs with a traditional tinge, some of them South-African protest songs, against a colourful background of cloths made by Blumberg himself and in which even the microphones and camera are enveloped. The women sowithimes accompany themselves on percussion instruments like bamboo sticks or the shekere, but the high point of the performance is reached with a display of a cappele 'glottal breathing', in which throaty sounds combine with a special breathing-technique to produce a most memorable musical experience.
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Erik Quint
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Camera: Maryse Alberti, Bill Marpet, Editing: Skip Blumberg, Light: Jan Kroeze, Sound: Randy Ezratty, Sets: Skip Blumberg, Keith Raywood, Digital effects: Jill Kroesen, Production: Skip Blumberg, Melinda Ward, With: Madeleine Yayodele Nelson, Ahmondylla Best, Pam Patrick, Ti'ye Giraud
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