Marching With The Mena Moeria Minstrels
Mena Moeria Minstrels, Ming Luhulima
- Artist
- Mena Moeria Minstrels, Ming Luhulima
- Label
- Omega (2)
- Catalog number
- 145.559
- Format
- 7" · 45 RPM · EP
- Country
- Netherlands
- Released
- 1962
- Genre
- Folk, World, & Country
What’s on it
Marching With The Mena Moeria Minstrels has 4 tracks. Open a track to see who wrote, played on and produced it.
- A1Waikiki Beach March
A2Bongo March
- Written-By
- Ming Luhulima
B1Polynesian March
- Written-By
- Ming Luhulima
- B2Maori March
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Where it came from
Marching With The Mena Moeria Minstrels was released in 1962 on the Dutch Omega label, capturing the distinctive sound of the Mena Moeria Minstrels led by Ming Luhulima. The group was part of the broader diaspora of Moluccan musicians in the Netherlands, who played a significant role in introducing and adapting traditional Eastern Indonesian music to European audiences during the mid-twentieth century.
The album reflects the era's fascination with exoticized, melodic acoustic arrangements, featuring the characteristic Hawaiian-style steel guitar and rhythmic elements common to the group's repertoire. As with many recordings of the period from the Omega imprint, the design sought to evoke a sense of travel and cultural curiosity, serving as a documentation of the vibrant, albeit specific, musical bridge built by the Moluccan community in exile.
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