Artist Info: John Thornley

John Thornley is an ethnomusicologist and was senior producer for BBC Radio 3 in the 1990s. John Thornley made a series of field recordings in 1987, in Kei Village, near Mount Hagen, in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. The field recordings resulting from his three month stay in Papua New Guinea form part of the British Library Sound Archive collections. A selection from his collection was published on the Topic Records CD ‘Healing, Feasting and Magical Ritual. [read more...]