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ROCK MUSIC ROCK ART

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'Rock Music, Rock Art' is a cultural exchange adventure that set out to discover musical sounds of our earliest ancestors and fuse two very different music styles. A group of contemporary western classical musicians and traditional African musicians journey in perilous canoes to a remote island in Lake Victoria to make music using the most elaborate prehistoric 'rock gongs' on the African continent. They discover a new gong with notes that suggest this beautiful granite landscape could have been the original birthplace of both African and European musical scales.
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