Burundi Black?!?!

Die Welt ist voller Geheimnisse: auf der Suche nach anspielbaren Titeln von “Burundi Black” wird mir unter anderem Peter Alexanders (ja, der Peter Alexander) “Wenn ich mit meinem Dackel von Grinzing heimwärts wackel” von iTunes angeboten. Ich wusste nicht, dass es so einen Titel gibt, aber ich weiß noch viel weniger, wie ich einen Dackel in Grinzing und den Alexander Peter mit Trommeln aus Burundi zusammenkriege?!?!?

Apropos: Burundi Black war ein krasser Fall von Musikstilklau aus den 70ern – siehe NY Times Artikel von 1981 zu Cultural Appropriation im Brit Pop jener Zeit:

“The appropriation of the so-called ”Burundi beat” by Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants, and several other British bands poses yet another moral conundrum. The original source of this ”tribal” rhythm is a recording of 25 drummers, made in a village in the east African nation of Burundi by a team of French anthropologists. The recording was included in an album, ”Musique du Burundi,” issued by the French Ocora label in 1968. It is impressively kinetic, but the rhythm patterns are not as complex as most African drumming; they are a relatively easy mark for pop pirates in search of plunder. During the early 70’s, a British pop musician named Mike Steiphenson grafted an arrangement for guitars and keyboards onto the original recording from Burundi, and the result was ”Burundi Black,” an album that sold more than 125,000 copies and made the British best-seller charts.”

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Weiter aus dem Artikel:

“Ten years later, Britain’s foppish, acutely fashion-conscious ”new romantics” and their tribalist cohorts rediscovered ”Burundi Black.” They found it rhythmically compelling, but Mike Steiphenson’s pop arrangement was out of date. So Rusty Egan, drummer with the new romantic band Visage, and a French record producer named Jean-Philippe Iliesco recorded a new pop arrangement over the hapless Burundian drummers. Their revised ”Burundi Black” was released in Britain this year and rapidly became a dance-floor hit. Now a New York label, Cachalot records (55 Mercer Street, New York, N.Y. 10013), has issued the Egan-Iliesco ”Burundi Black” in this country.
This latest ”Burundi Black” is glitzy pop-schlock, a throwaway with a beat. But its perpetrators are making money with it, and so is Mike Steiphenson, who has held onto the ”Burundi Black” copyright. Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, and several other bands have notched up an impressive string of British hits using the ”Burundi beat” as a rhythmic foundation. But the Burundian drummers who made the original recording are not sharing in the profits. Nobody told them to copyright their traditional music, and trying to obtain copyright for a rhythm would be a difficult proposition in any case. Borrowing vs. Theft”

Siehe auch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi_Black

Trommeln ist inzwischen ein Politikum in Burundi, und einige der weltweit aktiven Gruppen von Burundian Drummers haben Probleme in Burundi nach einer Gesetzesänderung vor einigen Jahren – hier mehr.