David Fanshawe – African Sanctus (E/E) – LP, AU 1973

African Sanctus is an LP by David Fanshawe from 1973 released on the Philips label.

About this album

African Sanctus is David Fanshawe's adventurous fusion of choral music, liturgical structure and field recordings gathered across Africa. First issued in 1973, the work blends Latin mass settings such as Kyrie, Gloria and Agnus Dei with voices, rhythms and environmental sounds recorded on location, creating a striking meeting point between concert composition and ethnographic documentation. Fanshawe, a British composer and explorer of world musics, shaped the piece as a personal response to his travels, and its bold collage form helped make it one of the most distinctive cross-cultural albums of the early 1970s. Its lasting appeal lies in how directly it connects sacred Western tradition with living African sound worlds.

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