Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a documentary by Werner Herzog about the magnificent prehistoric cave drawings in the French Ardèche region. Those drawings were 32 thousand years old. Even earlier are the bone flutes found in southern Germany of about 35,000 years old (end of the last ice age). The documentary contains a scene with such a bone flute, which can be found on YouTube. It will be a
… reconstructed bone flute, because none of these archaeological finds have been preserved completely intact. Then this CD release, probably the only one that is completely dedicated to historical bone flutes. Flutist Anna Friederike Potengowski of course works here with reconstructed flutes, for which a griffon vulture, a swan and even a mammoth donated. Potengowski could have filled this CD alone, that's how imaginative her playing is. Technically she masters the most experimental techniques (microtones, glissandi, playing and singing simultaneously, etc.). Despite the modern music (bone flutes, percussion) this cd still manages to evoke something of the world of 40,000 years ago. (HJ)more
