EUROPE COLLECTION
REEL 47 [DAT 24]
Cembra / Ventimiglia April 2,3/75
[ID 1 0:14]
1. MUSICIANS FROM TOWN BAND play a few numbers.
mark * Huse on tenor. [2:57]
2. MORNING AMBIENCE in central square outside Albergo.
mark * loud tractor. [24:50]
3. STORE-FRONT SHUTTERS opening on central square.
4. STONE CUTTERS (on road to Trento) chipping stone in quarry.
5. (Ventimiglia) ENTERING ITALIAN CUSTOMS at French border.
COMMENTARY
1. The practice had just broken up; a few more left at the end. Pretty funny, funky playing.
2. Good clear soundscape. Various footsteps, birds; ending with shutters opening at the Albergo. Note tractor entering into full foreground towards beginning.
3. Note the reverberation.
4. 3 men, 2 cutting stone and 1 pushing wheelbarrow.
5. Some stamping sounds and discussion by recordists over how much the officials were going to charge us for processing the carnet.
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