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Puzi, mhibu, sipumui sawa (I cannot breathe, my love, without you

- Egyptian Musical Club, Shehe Bini Saliman, Tracey, Hugh

Dezi kanambia

- Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179650 , vital:43125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-08
  • Description: The Arab influence is still strong up country particularly along the old Arab trading routes. All the seven items on this side of the disc represent an evening's entertainment spent with a Mohamedan Swahili family in Tabora whose taste in music leans towrds the Arab side of the family than the African. Two close friends who frequently play together in the evenings recorded these items. The wife of one of them provides some of the solos. They are typical, no doubt, of a musical evening at home by Swahili players anywhere in East Africa. All the items were recorded in the small sitting room of their Swahili home. The men singers sat around a table in the light of a parafin lamp and their veiled wwomefolk sat on mats in the adjoining rooms, watching through the doorways. Topical Taarab song, with 1 Udi, 1 Mandoline and 1 Duff tambourine drum (-14.91-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Dezi kanambia

- Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179622 , vital:43126 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-08
  • Description: The Arab influence is still strong up country particularly along the old Arab trading routes. All the seven items on this side of the disc represent an evening's entertainment spent with a Mohamedan Swahili family in Tabora whose taste in music leans towrds the Arab side of the family than the African. Two close friends who frequently play together in the evenings recorded these items. The wife of one of them provides some of the solos. They are typical, no doubt, of a musical evening at home by Swahili players anywhere in East Africa. All the items were recorded in the small sitting room of their Swahili home. The men singers sat around a table in the light of a parafin lamp and their veiled wwomefolk sat on mats in the adjoining rooms, watching through the doorways. Topical Taarab song, with 1 Udi, 1 Mandoline and 1 Duff tambourine drum (-14.91-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Pumzi mbibu, sipumui sawa

- Amberon, Bom, Egyptian Musical Club, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Pumzi mhibu sipumui sawa

- Egyptian Musical Club, Shehe Beni Salim, Tracey, Hugh

Pumzi, mhibu, sipumui sawa

- Egyptian Musical Club, Shehe Bini Salimu, Tracey, Hugh

Sote tu lo uzuriya

- Maruf, Musa, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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