Bruce Parry Presents ''Amazon - Tribe - Songs for Survival'' is a double album released by Kensaltown Records in support of a tribal peoples charity.

Background

The album was released in support of

Survival International Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969, a London based charity that campaigns for the rights of indigenous and/or tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples. The organisation's campaigns generally focus on tribal peop ...

, the human rights organisation for tribal peoples. The themes of the album are life around the

Amazon River The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile. The headwaters of ...

and other remote tribal areas. These topics are covered in the

Bruce Parry Bruce Parry (born 17 March 1969) is an English documentarian, indigenous rights advocate, author, explorer, trek leader and former Royal Marines commando officer. He employs an ethnographic style and a form of participant observation for his doc ...

television series ''

Tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to conflic ...

'' and ''

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology co ...

''. All of the music on the album is exclusive and was written for the project. Many of the songs on the record contain samples recorded by Bruce Parry whilst living with tribal communities. The first track on the album by supergroup Apparatjik was used for the credits roll on the BBC series ''Amazon with Bruce Parry''. The album was released digitally on 15 September 2008, which was also the debut of the ''Amazon'' series on

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, and then on 13 October on CD. It is available from retailers such as

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and

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. Every track on the album is exclusive, and was written especially for the project. Around £45,000 has been raised for Survival International through album purchases. The album was put together by Molly Oldfield, daughter of musician

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. She and Bruce Parry took samples from all the tribes (taken from

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's ''Tribe'') and sent them all the musicians involved on the project. Each one chose their favourite sample around which to write a song. Other musicians preferred to write a straightforward song without using the samples but all are inspired by the issues facing indigenous communities all over the world. The first track to be received was by

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(Molly was at Oxford University with Joe Goddard) who sampled music from the Babongo tribe in Gabon, Africa. Mike Oldfield's "Song for Survival" was composed in 2007, he sampled the islanders of

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singing in church, this was the second track to be received for the project.

Apparatjik

"Ferreting", the theme to ''Amazon'', is performed by

Apparatjik Apparatjik ( ) are a multi-national band formed in 2008. The band is a supergroup that consists of bassist Guy Berryman from Coldplay, guitarist/keyboardist Magne Furuholmen from A-ha, singer/guitarist Jonas Bjerre of Mew and drummer/producer ...

, a supergroup composed of Guy Berryman, Magne Furuholmen,

Jonas Bjerre Jonas Bjerre Terkelsbøl (born 21 September 1976) is a musician and visual artist from Copenhagen, Denmark, best known as the lead singer of Danish rock band Mew. Bjerre creates animated videos for Mew's live shows. He has an uncommon vocal ra ...

(of

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and Mew respectively) and

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. This was the first release by the group who have now released two full albums.

Track listing

''Amazon''

- "Ferreting" (4:49) # Dawn Kinnard - "Love is My New Drug" (3:17) # will.i.am feat. the

Babongo The Bongo people, also called Babongo or Bazimba, are an agricultural people of Gabon in equatorial Africa who are known as "forest people" due to their recent foraging economy. They are not to be confused with the autocrat leadership of Omar Bon ...

tribe - "One People" (2:50) # KT Tunstall - "The Hidden Heart" (4:23) # Jason Mraz &

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- "Long Road to Forgiveness" (4:11) #

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ft. Mystery Jets & Adem - "Grains of Sand" (4:00) # Tom Baxter - "Make a Stand" (3:33) # Johnny Borrell feat. the Suri tribe - "Carrikfergus" (3:35) # Skin/ Robot Club/ Ian Matthews feat. the

Adi Adi or ADI may refer to: Names and titles * Adi (mythology), an Asura in Hindu faith who appears in the Matsya Purāṇa * Adi (name), a given name in Hebrew and a nickname in other languages * Adi (title), a Fijian title used by females of chi ...

tribe - "Simmer Down" (4:04) # Yusuf Islam - "Edge of Existence" (4:17)

''Tribe''

: ''(Songs using tribal samples collected by Bruce Parry on his travels)'' # Joe Goddard feat. the Babongo tribe (

Remix) - "Babongo Tribe Remix" (6:04) #

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feat. the Suri tribe - "KIN" (5:00) #

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feat. the Suri tribe - "Komuru" (5:55) #

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feat. The Adi Tribe – "Noneya" (7:51) # The Egg ft Various tribes - "Trails and Tribulations" (5:11) # The Go! Team feat. the Babongo tribe - "Templates from Home" (3:10) # The Ruby Suns feat. the

Penan The Penan are a nomadic indigenous people living in Sarawak and Brunei, although there is only one small community in Brunei; among those in Brunei half have been converted to Islam, even if only superficially. Penan are one of the last such pe ...

tribe - "Don't Touch the Dusty Fruit" (3:50) #

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feat. the Kombai tribe - "Hello Kombai" (4:04) # Way Out West feat. the Babongo tribe - "Evelina" (4:27) #

feat. the

tribe - "Song for Survival" (4:04)

References

External links

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Survival International
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