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Ndoto (I am full)

- Chintuta Banda and group of Ngoni men and women, Hugh Tracey

Njala Makono (Famine this year)

- Sergent Deza and a friend, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sergent Deza and a friend , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Police Headquarters, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154721 , vital:39768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-06
  • Description: The two friends sit on the ground close together and sing into each other's faces with great abandon, loving every moment of it. This style of intricate singing appears to be almost unique to their tribe. "There is famine this year. My wife, why do you cook too much food? Don't worry yourself I know there is a famine this year, but don't worry. Song for initiation of boys, with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mukadzi wanga (My wife)

- Young girls and 4 drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155820 , vital:39920 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-02
  • Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mwezi mtondo (Month after next)

- Katunga and Mailoso (8 and 6 years old). Son and nephew of the chief, Hugh Tracey

Gebede-gebede ulendo wasabwera (Pack-pack, to go and not return)

- Eight elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey

Ndayamba dale (I start, darling)

- Young girls and 5 drummers, Hugh Tracey

Gulugufe (The butterfly)

- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey

Mnyamata (Young man why dont you marry?)

- Frank Nantibule, Hugh Tracey

Siti, musikana adadeka (Siti, the beautiful girl)

- Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga, Zhogi Muzengedza and Saini Madera, Hugh Tracey

Watenga mbengo ndani (Who took the chief's towell?)

- Older men of Njolomole, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Older men of Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Ngoni
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154829 , vital:39783 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-03
  • Description: This kind of song, they say, was sung at the gathering to remember a dead person. The Chief's towell was a cloth which was wrapped around the blade of a short spear which the chief held in his hand in order to wipe the perspiration off his face while he danced. "Who took the chief's towell, Oyayo! who ever it is, bring back Oyayo! look everywhere where the chief's people are, until you find it." Chitoto obsequies after funeral with small iron bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Matete (Matete, the greedy man)

- Constable B. Kunje and Nyanja men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Constable B. Kunje and Nyanja men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178995 , vital:39886 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-03
  • Description: There was once a man Matete who had a wife who died and he had a daughter called Kunyeka. He came from Mlanje to marry another woman in Zomba. She had a big garden and her husband used to eat a lot, far more than most men. When coming back from the farm the father Matete used to be called by his daughter to come and have food. He asked, "who calls me" and she would reply "It is mother who is calling. At lenght people began to remark that her husband was eating far too much and advised the wife to get rid of him. So she took a bottle, broke it and put it in the food. The daughter called the father from the farm for his meal as usual, he ate it and died. Story song (Nthano).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

China mureya

- Zemaria Leon Marunga, Hugh Tracey

Lizzie wanga (My Lizzie)

- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155558 , vital:39894 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-09
  • Description: Taken from an old recording, name unknown. A typical example of the sentimental song now popular in urban surroundings, and not original. "My Lizzie, at the cross roads where we met and spoke. You are the only one I think was made for me. My heart will never forget you, never leave me lonely. I dream about you, think about you and remember your kisses." Love song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakazali Inhaminga (She has married at Inhaminga)

- George Zongoloti and small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsu, Port Herald District f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156027 , vital:39943 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-03
  • Description: Inhaminga is the village in Mozambique beyond the Zambezi river from this district about 100 miles away to the south and about half way to the port of Beira. The drum held horizontally between the knees, membrane facing outwards-mirliton upwards, the player sitting on the ground. By raising and lowering his legs slightly the drummer presses the open end of the drum on and off his chest. The lower notes are produced while the oriffice of the drum is off his chest. The drum which had a 7 inch membrane was 12 inches tall. The water-lizard skin was weighted with paste on the inner surface and was attached with wooden pins. Nthikwi dance with cylindrical, weighted drums and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Phakachere (Under the Kachere tree)

- Men and women, Hugh Tracey

Ndachinyuka, Pitoria (I will say no more, Pitoria)

- George Zongoloti and chorus of small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and chorus of small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155721 , vital:39909 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-06
  • Description: The two people mentioned in the song are imaginary and not actual people. "I will not say any more, Pitoria (sometimes pronounced Vitoria by the singers). For you have no teeth left. "Yes" she said, "but you Bitoni, when you come near you sound like Thomas, you make a noise like a motor car engine. When you laugh you make a noise like a maize mill." Pitoria was an old woman who was married to Bitoni. He told her she was now to old. Topical song with Nthikuri barrel drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nana, ndili kupita (Sister, I am going)

- George Zongoloti, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155703 , vital:39907 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-04
  • Description: "Sister, I am going, keeping crocodiles, fish and everything there as you do! Do not play with young boys or girls. The small boy will kill you and might keep those things I told you about, rice, maize and flour which belong to you. So mind you do not play with them!" The singer keeps some magical objects such as crocodiles and fish with which to make her own magic. The singer warns his sister not to show the children her magical objects or she will be punished for it. Topicla song with Nthikwi drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngwasi (Fish eagle)

- 3 Yao women, Hugh Tracey

Kaisara (Kaisara)

- Nyanja Policemen, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nyanja Policemen , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178942 , vital:39885 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-02
  • Description: "Kaisare, the King of the Jews, he crucified Jesus, he was not afraid of death, he was only afraid of getting old." The men grunt as in Arab songs and this feature may well be residuum from Arab days when they occupied the country around lake Nyasa and traded in slaves. Who Kaisare may be is not clear. Caiphas the high priest perhaps or 'Kaiser' the King. The singers could not elucidate the point. Wedding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndapanda kobidi ndini (I discovered the pain myslef)

- Kaiya Maritenzi and Ngoni men and women, Hugh Tracey

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