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Giving World's Unfamiliar Music the Exposure it Deserves

by Faiza Elmasry

   WASHINGTON --

   Record producer,[1] Ian Brennan, and his wife Marilena Delli, a
   photographer and documentary filmmaker, are on a quest for the unknown
   and unfamiliar. Their passion for discovering uniqueness in human
   stories and music has taken them to far-flung places around the world,
   from Malawi to record songs by prisoners, to rural Rwanda and Cambodia
   to give voice to genocide survivors.

   Music to his Ears

   For a music lover like Ian Brennan, hearing a good song is a rewarding
   adventure, even if it's in a language he doesn't understand. He
   believes it's better for us, neurologically and sociologically, to
   listen to diverse music, which is not what is offered by the commercial
   music business.

   "What we get with the recorded music is by nature repetition, hearing
   not only the same song, not only the same singer, but the same
   performance of the same song over and over and over again. But there is
   a lot more to the world than that."
   Photo Gallery: Unfamiliar Music

References

   1. http://www.ianbrennan.com/