Foragers

Mark Alban Lotz is one of the most impressing jazz instrumentalists of our time and a unequaled visionist in his art. Always looks out for exceptional voices in music and his collaborations are legendary. Unit Records is proud present this first Duo release of multi flautist Mark Lotz with Squeakologist Alan Purves, a sound magician of a special kind. The ‘CD Food Foragers’ is a meeting in music by two free spirits on the top of their game.

Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources. Archaeological research in Africa is crucial for understanding the origins of humans and the diversity of hunter-gatherer ways of life. This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest hominin inhabitants and hunter-gatherers…