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Zhikita (The girdle)

Yawiyanga, ya kulumbata nyama

Wimbe ngoma wulisalise ye-ye

Tunaswanyisa Nyakotolo

  • Authors: Zebe de Simon and group of 14 Lwena men and 1 woman , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Bulusako f-ao
  • Language: Chokwe , Luvale
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183366 , vital:43973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-08
  • Description: This was sung when the late Chief Nyakutolo died and his successor took his place. Although there was only one woman in this group it was clear that they felt her part to be essential as they would not start the song until she arrived. The form of Luvale singing is complex and to an outsider at first appears disjointed but in fact it is well organised and the responses understood and followed by all the people without difficulty. Song at the succession of a Chief, with Chisanzhi bamboo tongued Mbira, 2 struck sticks, bottle and small bell
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tambuka nalikishi

  • Authors: Josiasi Yemba Mate , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Luanika f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184027 , vital:44158 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-03
  • Description: This is a genuine African impression of the emotions surrounding a dance in masks rather than the music of the dance itself. A most interesting piece of music. Towards the end of the item, it would appear that he removes the mask to reveal his familiar self to his friends. It is not clear whether the performer Mate sings 'Tanga na likishi', 'Tamba', 'Tambwa', or 'Tambuka'. Barotseland is the furthest south of all the places where carved wooden masks are made. It is said to be a West African cultural intrusion. Further south only grass masks are sometimes used, but no carved ones. Topical song with Kathandi Mbira, fan with external resonator
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Sungule sungelelo, walings ngunya ngunya nawakweneweya

Sole, maninga ndaba

Siyemboka

  • Authors: Balisa Ita Milopa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mongu f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184078 , vital:44167 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-05
  • Description: This is a dance peformed at feasts of rejoicing such as the majority of a man on taking over from his dead father, or at the maturity of a girl. The recording was made at the Museum at Livingstone where the performers were engaged as full time musicians to play for the museum visitors. (See also TR67-10). The 'slit drum' was cracked and did not emit the usual clear tone of these gongs. The order of appearance od each instrument is as follows:- The tall conical drum starts: then at 10 seconds the slit drum or gong; at 23 seconds the xylophone; at 37 seconds the friction drum. At the end of the recording at 2m. 37 seconds, the friction drum plays alone. Siyemboka dance with Kajakiri conical drum, Singubu rectangular skit drum, Namalwa friction drum and Silimba xylophone
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Sitima senda namoto

Satani kwa pilu tata

Saikera mwana musheka ndi

Po yami haya weswe

Owu wangachata ngumufwete

  • Authors: Malassa Soma , Group of Luvale men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Luvale f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184133 , vital:44176 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-07
  • Description: The rhythm was tapped out on the body of the Likembe by a friend with a pen knife, the same tapping rhythm that is found from Angola across the continet to the Indian ocean. Luvale players often sit on a log or stool, lean over and play their instrument low down near the ground with obe arm coming from behind one leg and the other in front. A friend takes any convenient stick or piece of metal and taps out the inevitable rhythm on the body of the instrument itself avoiding the players thumbs which are plucking the tips of the reeds. Topical song with Likembe Mbira, with 8 notes above box and a knife
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  • Date Issued: 1957

O-oye Mama Jojinia

O Mama Lina, kuvimba mwaro (Mama Lina, let's sing)

Ngej kaku mumeneka, weya ya mama (Greetings to the stranger)

  • Authors: Large group of Chokwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Chokwe (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Sandoa f-cg
  • Language: Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137025 , vital:37480 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-01
  • Description: The 2 drums set up a quick ripplig rhythm which is quickly followed by the typically antiphonal, call and reply singing of the leader and his group, with their constant repetition of the word "Mama". At the end of the recording the sound of the stick, and each drum is brought up and each part can be clearly heard. Chiyanda dance song with 2 conical drums, pegged, open, hand beaten and 2 pieces of wood struck together.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mwilu mwatuluka womama yami-e!

Mwayishe mbungeya mwema

  • Authors: Mushipi Mukuma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luvale (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Africa Angola Luhakano f-ao
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137170 , vital:37495 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-08
  • Description: Simple song in typical Luvale style of a kind which must have been sung for centuries throughhout Africa. The mbira or Likembe accompaniment of the second is interesting for its cross rhythm. The scale of the instrument is hexatonic in the lower part of the scale but may well be heptatonic if one extra note in the upper octave is taken in to account. Scale of instrument as follows:- 672, 592, 544, 488, 416, 376, 336, 312, 268, 244. Self-delectative song with Muchapata Likembe Mbira box and mirliton
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mashine akwata ku mulwe-aye

  • Authors: Three Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Mount Lowmani f-ao
  • Language: Chokwe , Luvale
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183461 , vital:43993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-13
  • Description: "When he was working a machine caught him and he died." The singers refer to a friend of theirs who died in an accident. The heavy vibration of the three drums make a celeste with the voices. Towards the end of the recording the three drums are taken out separately which reveals the part each plays in the composite rhythm. Chianda dance, with 3 goblet drums, open, pinned and weighted, hand beaten
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Masaji

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