{"product_id":"missing-music-9798887440378","title":"Missing Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMissing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End\u003c\/em\u003e \ndetails Grammy-winning music producer and author Ian Brennan’s ongoing \nquest to provide musical platforms for underrepresented nations and \npopulations around the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a compact and quick-read format, \u003cem\u003eMissing Music\u003c\/em\u003e\n collects the latest narratives from Brennan’s field-recording treks. \nThis edition features a greater emphasis on storytelling and an even \ngreater abundance of photos from his wife, Italian-Rwandan \nphotographer\/filmmaker Marilena Umuhoza Delli.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, they meet\n the elderly shamans of the world’s most musical language, Taa, a tongue\n that sadly is dying, with fewer than 2,500 speakers left. The duo \ntraveled the most remote roads of Botswana to find the formally nomadic \npeople now relegated to small desert towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Azerbaijan, Brennan\n and Delli ascended to the mountainous Iranian border to record \ncentenarians in scattered villages of the Talysh minority, where the \nworld’s oldest man reportedly reached the age of 168. The result is the \nonly record ever released to feature the voices of singers over \none-hundred years of age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong other tales, Brennan also updates \nthe saga of the Sheltered Workshop Singers following COVID, including \nthe tragic deterioration of his sister, Jane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArising from the \nmore than forty records that Brennan has produced over the past decade \nfrom underrepresented nations such as Comoros, Djibouti, Romania, South \nSudan, Suriname, and Cambodia, \u003cem\u003eMissing Music\u003c\/em\u003e serves as the \nnewest suite in the multiverse symphony of the world’s most ignored \ncorners—the places where countries expire and the “forgotten” live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Brennan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48543089393915,"sku":"9798887440378","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_1b87de54-4320-40ee-9941-d11fd633fcd6.jpg?v=1774186583","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/missing-music-9798887440378","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}