Roots

Part of our Prison Songs project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/prisonsongs for full details.

Reimagined version of They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by Camilla Fanning.

""I heard a theory about the music of the south or the blues. It outlined the many influences from all sorts of sources, in particular through the mixing of cultures while the railroads were being built. Some of the most noticeable influences were Irish traditional Music, African chants coming through work songs, Cajun sounds – bottleneck and steel guitar in particular and even the Chinese scale, possibly heard from the camps of the Chinese workers. All these diverse sources blended to make the songs we recognise today. I wanted o disaggregate the history of these sounds and make a piece combining all the originals as part of the reimagining, reflecting all the different peoples who went into the making of the prison song. Parallel to this I was rehearsing ‘Spem in Alium’ and when I got stuck in the project, this is what gave me the way forward and the inspiration for the final form the piece has taken.
Original extra ‘collaged’ sources: Irish (Sean Nós)  http://old.tg4.ie/en/programmes/archive/eoini-maidhci-o-suilleabhain/cuisle-mo-chro%C3%AD-

sean-n%C3%B3s-na-bhfear-2013.html Traditional field hollers - Track Callin https://www.loc.gov/item/lomaxbib000263/ Peter Cooke Recordings - Uganda
http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Peter-Cooke-Uganda/025M-C0023X0022XX-

1900V0 China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Y4ncLy9LA Cajun The disaggregated guitar from the original soundtrack."