M1 S3 Oriya

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• published: 09 Mar 2015
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This song is in the Oriya language and asks leaders if they are treating people like a water pump (machine) or a rice garden (plant). People use pressure to get machines to produce - and demand that machines produce every time - or the machines are replaced! Whereas a rice garden is cultivated, the gardener provides nourishment and a proper environment but knows that ultimately the crop - the fruit - is a process of God. The good gardener also knows that the plant produces its crop in season. I only have some video screen shots of the artist singing - no actual footage of this take - and no photos. So instead the photos are all traveling photos - a wide variety from urban to rural, planes to trains to automobiles and a few interesting creatures and food as well! The click/clacking instrument is called "dashkathia," or literally "ten fingers (das) with a stick (kathia)." It was very difficult to get a balance among the instruments with only one microphone with me at that time. I now travel with more microphones in order to better balance instruments and voices, however it can still be very difficult if the singer is playing the instrument!