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Beating Heart Malawi is an album made from an archive of original African music - it's the first time permission has been given to use the music. The library was created by ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey, who made 35,000 recordings across Africa between the 1920s and 1970s, in a bid to preserve its music for future generations. The Beating Heart organisation hopes to use sounds of the past to address problems of the present and the money they raise will go directly to help communities where the music was originally recorded. Chris Pedley, one of the founders of Beating Heart and Piers Agget, from the UK music group Rudimental who has remixed one of the archived songs, told Newsday's Lawrence Pollard how the project came about. (Photo: Hugh Tracey. Credit: Beating Heart / International Library of African Music)