Tropical Beat DVD

LIMITED EDITION - Only available through Fanshawe Music

Featuring David Fanshawe, this is a documentary looking into traditional music and migratory belts in the Torres St Islands, Thailand, Laos, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Senegal, Cuba and Fiji. Filmed entirely on location between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Director: Bill Leimbach
Producer: Hugh Rule
Cameraman: Michael Dillon AM
Created by Eclectic Films and screened on BBC in 1994

“Dedicated to all the musicians, singers and dancers who keep their culture alive. Many fragile communities are now actively involved in the revival of their traditional cultures, thereby propagating the flowering of new musical forms. Throughout the tropics there is a big cultural renaissance. The tropical belt has survived centuries of change through wars, slavery and migration; it will continue to survive, because music is the universal heartbeat of the human race.” (David Fanshawe)