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Lord we praise Thee
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Recordist's notes
an excerpt of the first song, a Herero Spiritual, “Lord we praise Thee”… (thinking of what is known in history as the genocide of the Herero people by the German Army under General von Trotta… the beautiful song of praise gives as a bit of a shudder…) listening to a Herero in Windhoek... http://aporee.org/maps/work/?loc=24517
About the place
Hamm is a city of about 178,967 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 129 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Paulus Kirche, Hamm, Germany - Lord we praise Thee...” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0