Invocation

Recording of a performance by the bard Camalek Bahadur Dholi, aged ~54. It contains the invocation pronounced immediately before the beginning of "Chiya and Bhiya Kathayat", the first of 4 epics recorded on 4 November 1969. This recording was made outdoors, at the administrative center of Dandeldhura District, Nepal, by Marc Gaborieau and Mireille Helffer of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), on a Nagra recorder at 19cm/s and simultaneously on cassette. The digitalized version has been mounted from the digitalization of a tape archived under catalog number BM.1970.041.004 at the Centre pour la Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM), Université de Paris-X, Nanterre, France (http://crem.parisson.com). The sound file presented here forms part of a digitalized track CNRSMH_I_1970_041_004_13_01. (In the CREM online catalog, only 11 digitalized tracks, were listed for tape BM.1970.041.004 as of Sept. 2010.) The performance was simultaneously recorded on side A of a cassette labelled "HUDKIYA 1"