Imilishyo y'ingoma (Rhythms of drums)
- Authors: 8 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Drummers (Musicians) , Folk music--Africa , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136801 , vital:37425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-01
- Description: This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa Series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of Africa." The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same leader Bijiyobyenda Simeon. The 11 tattos are;- 1. Ibiteyo, 2. Umosuko, 3. Zigezikaragwe, 4. Agasiga, 5. Agasiga k'i gaseke, 6. Akanimba, 7. Urukina, 8. Urukantege, 9. Umuganura, 10. Umusambi, 11. Imilindi. Ekeven drum rhythms with 2 conical drums, 5 cylindrical drums, laced, closed, with wooden beaters , 1 treble drum, cylindrical, laced, wooden beaters.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kantende maninga
- Authors: 8 Luba men with Nyundu Gabriel (flute) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137695 , vital:37551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-04
- Description: "Aminai, munasei, aminai." This somewhat unusual piece of music has a single ground provided by the Kisanzhi (mbira) with an interesting flute obligato followed by a simple sung line of "Aminai, munasei, aminai." Praise song for a Chief with 1 chisanzhi mbira, 1 side-blown dilele munenge tranverse flute, a voiced note and tapped wood.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Muleka mwene ngoie
- Authors: A. Kaseba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137904 , vital:37572 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-07
- Description: The singer goes on to enumerate all the various districts where the rumor of the fame of this legendary beauty has arrived. "Muleka is a girl so beautiful that her fame has spread far and wide throughout the Kasai." This is a good example of a new accompaniment to an indifenous form of song. Topical song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Mutshalenga bakulala kabalale batwe nka kubhalenga (We are the men who do nothing but dance)
- Authors: Group of 16 Bena Budia men , 16 Bena Budia men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135614 , vital:37281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-03
- Description: Party dance song for "Mutshalenga" dance, with 2 goblet drums, weighted, closed, hand beaten and 16 Mishiba panpipes.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kashama wa ndiambo (Kashama the powerful man)
- Authors: Group of 16 Bena Budia men , 16 Bena Budia men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135609 , vital:37280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-02
- Description: Kashama was an old "sultan", chief famous for his strength of puporse, and powers of ruling. Mushiba-(Mishiba-plural). Mbuwa- bass x 2. Kiteba- middle register x 3 to 6. Ntendo- treble x 2. Song of greeting with 2 goblet drums, weighted closed, hand beaten, with 16 sets of "Mishibu" panpipes.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Mishiba
- Authors: Group of 16 Bena Budia men , 16 Bena Budia men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135567 , vital:37276 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-01
- Description: This group were Bena Budia, a group allied to the Bekalehwe, who belong to the linguistic group of Luba/Songe. The ensemble of end-blown flutes consisted of three pitches, treble, tenor and bass, the middle register having several players holding a raft of 2 to 6 pipes and the bass and treble having 2 each only. Pipe ensemble with 2 weighted goblet drums, closed, hand beaten, and 16 sets of panpipes.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Masengu
- Authors: Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends , Misomba Victor , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135691 , vital:37290 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-10
- Description: Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle
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- Date Issued: 1957
Mbwiya ndalo Chalo (Mbwiya, son of Chalo)
- Authors: Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends , Misomba Victor , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135672 , vital:37287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-08
- Description: "Mbwiya son of Chalo-You must not go out without first saying where you are going." Topical song with 2 guitars and 1 bottle
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kame-lo
- Authors: Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends , Misomba Victor , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135686 , vital:37289 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-09
- Description: Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mamwana kufiki mundi
- Authors: Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends , Misomba Victor , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135710 , vital:37291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-11
- Description: Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mama Josefina
- Authors: Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends , Misomba Victor , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135663 , vital:37286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-07
- Description: The guitars were played without a capodasta (open string). Topical song with 2 guitars and 1 bottle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Antoinette wa Kolwezi (Antoinette of Kolwezi)
- Authors: Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends , Misomba Victor , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135719 , vital:37292 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-12
- Description: Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Dilai Manga bulunda bwa tukalembo
- Authors: Kabango Prospere and friends , Kabango Prospere , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135654 , vital:37285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-06
- Description: The song is about a girl who felt her lover to marry a European. The deserted lover said: "She has done this because the European "Bwana" has more money than I." Lament with chisanzhi mbira with box and sound holes.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Tombe chenipape change mishemba (The one who stole is dead)
- Authors: Kabango Prospere and friends , Kabango Prospere , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135645 , vital:37284 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-05
- Description: The ah sounds interpoltaed by the chorus are made purposely either by expressing the syllable or by blowing out of the side of the mouth. "The one who is dead is dead because he stole. The owner of the stolen money cast a spell upon him and he died." Lament with chisanzhi mbira with box and sound holes.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Mukala bwanga
- Authors: Kabango Prospere and friends , Kabango Prospere , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135627 , vital:37283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-04
- Description: The song is a lament for a young man who fell to his death from a palm tree, when cutting the fruit for palm-oil. Note: the Belande are a sub-group of the Songe people, who form a part of the Luba tribe. Lament with Chisanshi box, with sound holes.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Mudima zenzele (Mad bat)
- Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137919 , vital:37574 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-09
- Description: "Little mad bat, flittering and weaving to and fro like a drunken man."
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nalongana maani (What will I do today)
- Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137932 , vital:37575 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-10
- Description: A poor boys: "I have no father, no mother, I am very poor, I have nothing to eat, what shall I do today." Personal lament with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nilikwenda kwetu (I wanted to go on a journey to my country)
- Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Folk songs, Swahili , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137914 , vital:37573 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-08
- Description: Although a Luba by tribe, the singer sang this song in Swhaili. Nostalgic song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Masengu
- Authors: Kasongo Adalbert , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137765 , vital:37557 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-06
- Description: This song is sung when external signs of mourning are taken off. It is an example of an old social custom now being featured in song on a European instrument. Obsequies, sometime after burial, with guitar and bottle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Tuhuri
- Authors: Large group of Kasai women and 6 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137745 , vital:37555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-05
- Description: The buzzing or nasalizing effect of the small mirliton membranes inserted into the side of the drums is clearly heard throughout this recording. The women who play the singing gourds hold their mouths just inside the orifice of their gourds and voice their notes with taught lips, using alternate sides of their mouth, as if they were lipping a trumpet or bugle. The cavity of the gourd thus resonates the sound produced. In addition, they slap the outside of their gourd rhythmically as they hold it between the palms of their hands. Wedding and ceremonial with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons. Quiet hand clapping (-12.05-) and 4 singing gourds. (-11.13-).
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- Date Issued: 1957