Kabamba mucheso
- Authors: Kabundji Nioka and Senga Louis with Songe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182078 , vital:43797 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-14
- Description: Mucheso is a gmae played by the children. The song develops into a kind of noisy cannon which was only brought to an end by the familiar 'A,r,r,r,r' of the leader. Funeral song for a chief with Chisanzhi 18 notes and rattle
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- Date Issued: 1952
Dyibwe dyambule kabanda
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182017 , vital:43790 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-10
- Description: "There is an ant which carries a box on its head just as Europeans carry an aeroplane and as a lorry carries stones and stones carry the lorry." The two Likembe Mbira were tuned an octave apart. The scale was:- 648, 548, 496, 424, 392, 324, 274, 248, 212, 162. Topical song, with 2 Likembe mbira and wooden clapper (-12,02-)
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- Date Issued: 1952
Tulele mam'we we u chiku chimbundu (We sleep here / The night mist)
- Authors: Kalemba and large group of Lunda women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139537 , vital:37748 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-13
- Description: The box drum was a roughly made instrument from the sides of a box or packing case, one side being covered by a skin to form the membrane. The player sat on his box and raised the pitch of the membrane by pressure from one heel. U chiku chimbundu dance with 1 goblet drum struck on the side by wooden beater, 1 box drum, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957