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Jon Ross über Marion Browns vor 50 Jahren begonnenes musikalisches Portrait von Georgia:
https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2021/marion-browns-musical-portrait-of-georgia

Brown lived through his early teens in the alleys of West Fair Street, now the heart of the Atlanta University Center Historic District; in nearby woods; and at his uncle’s house in rural north Georgia. His memories would become the basis for a seminal recorded recollection of home, a three-volume abstract study of Southern sounds that began with ECM Records’ release of “Afternoon of a Georgia Faun” in 1971. The next two installments, “Geechee Recollections” and “Sweet Earth Flying,” followed in 1973 and 1974 on Impulse! Records. Produced as separate albums, they coalesce into a Georgia trilogy, a narrative of memory, amplified by Brown’s research into ancestral African music.

A lifelong academic and trained ethnomusicologist who received a master’s degree in the subject from Wesleyan University in 1976, Brown applied a nascent thirst for knowledge in mapping out the recordings. In his trilogy, the sparse and abstract percussive “afternoon” leads into a song collection celebrating the Geechee culture of coastal Georgia, ending with the diaphanous, colorful wash of nostalgia and the sound of home.

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