Maikele pafuamu (I once settled on a farm)
- Authors: Edmond Cileshe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Drinking songs , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135281 , vital:37254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-04
- Description: He sings he once wanted to settle on a new farm, but there were so many people who came to advise him, that in the end he was confused and did not do the right thing and his efforts to farm were a failure. Every morning a wagtial sat on the roof of his house and asked him when would he have a child? He considers this most unfortunate because not only had his farm failed, but a bird spoke to him in his own language. The singer became blind just when he began to walk as a child. Tuning of he instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Mupukumo drinking song with Mumamba mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Edmond Cileshe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Drinking songs , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135281 , vital:37254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-04
- Description: He sings he once wanted to settle on a new farm, but there were so many people who came to advise him, that in the end he was confused and did not do the right thing and his efforts to farm were a failure. Every morning a wagtial sat on the roof of his house and asked him when would he have a child? He considers this most unfortunate because not only had his farm failed, but a bird spoke to him in his own language. The singer became blind just when he began to walk as a child. Tuning of he instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Mupukumo drinking song with Mumamba mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tondwe kasobele ku bulaya (Honey-bird, go tell the people in Europe that I and my family are on our way back)
- Edmond Cileshe and his wife, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135201 , vital:37247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-01
- Description: "You with your large paunches you sit about at the court, but you do nothing.-You, you Chiefs, you do not dare to say anything, for fear of being deposed. (These words are addressed to certain Chiefs at the Court of the Chitimakulu, Paramount chief of teh Bemba tribe). "And you Mr. Tom, why do you not tell the honey-bird to fly before you to England, to tell them you are on your way, with your wife and children." This allusion is to a certain trader, Thom or Tom, whose business was said to have been ruined by the activities of the African National Congress, a local political body. The player was blind, and sang with his wife. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Song concerning affairs of tribe, with 'Mumamba' mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135201 , vital:37247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-01
- Description: "You with your large paunches you sit about at the court, but you do nothing.-You, you Chiefs, you do not dare to say anything, for fear of being deposed. (These words are addressed to certain Chiefs at the Court of the Chitimakulu, Paramount chief of teh Bemba tribe). "And you Mr. Tom, why do you not tell the honey-bird to fly before you to England, to tell them you are on your way, with your wife and children." This allusion is to a certain trader, Thom or Tom, whose business was said to have been ruined by the activities of the African National Congress, a local political body. The player was blind, and sang with his wife. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Song concerning affairs of tribe, with 'Mumamba' mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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