Field recording: Haitian Marching Band

Field recording: Haitian Marching Band

I have begun to post many of my recordings and audio projects on www.soundcloud.com. You can visit my profile to hear some recent sound art, radio dramas, and documentary work:
www.soundcloud.com/aaronmaiden

Here is something I posted recently that I love. It is a field recording I did in Port au Prince, Haiti in January 2006 of a funeral marching band.

Haitian funeral marching band by aaronmaiden

The recording is of a marching band playing the funeral procession of a man who was shot and killed by MINUSTAH, the UN "peace-keeping" mission in Haiti. Devastatingly beautiful music.
Some technical notes: I recorded this with a Sony HiMD mini-disc recorder. There might be a bit of popping and clipping because... yeah.
I think I might eventually use this as part of a larger project of inspiring voices and sounds I captured during the one month I spent in Haiti. But for now, enjoy this. Solidarity and love for the Haitian people, whose struggle for freedom should inspire us all.