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Recordist's notes
Espoir is the name of this nail varnish street seller in Kinshasa. He is knocking 2 small glass bottle varnish to announce he is passing by. Recorded by a MS setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8 on a 633 Sound Devices Recorder Original recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit May 2018, Kinshasa, RDC GPS: -4.319810 / 15.325272 Sound Ref: @KIN180511T12
About the place
Kinshasa is a city of about 16,000,000 people in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. OttoAnna lists 2 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders and Schoeps microphones. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
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Sources & credits
- “Ave Du Progres, Kinshasa, RDC - Nail Varnish Street Seller in Kinshasa” by Felix BLUME – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0