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Mutombo ko saye

- Group of 7 Luba men and 1 woman, Hugh Tracey

Mutomboko

- Group of 6 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Mutoto wa mashikini

- Myundu Gabriel (Dilele munenge flute), Kwadi Bonza (Chisanzhi), Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Myundu Gabriel (Dilele munenge flute) , Kwadi Bonza (Chisanzhi) , Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabongo f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183886 , vital:44080 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-01
  • Description: This rather unusual duet played by two elderly men on Chisanzhi and Dilele munenge flute is remarkable for the musicianship they display. When asked why they played music like this, they replied, "To give our haters courage." In view of the severe troubles with which they and their people were to be confronted in the years ahead one can only hope that their music did indeed give them and their families that courage to face their ordeals in the Kasai and the Katanga so shortly to overtake them. The flute player uses voiced notes while he blows. The music is sometimes played to the "Sultan", the chief, 'in order to refresh his spirit'. Nyundu Gabriel said that when he was feeling sad, tired of depressed he would play this music to cheer himself up. The Chisanzhi (Mbira) keeps up a fascinating accompaniment. (See also TR 39 and TR 40). Self delectative song with sibe blown flute and Chisanzhi (-13.37206 x 18-)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mutshalenga bakulala kabalale batwe nka kubhalenga (We are the men who do nothing but dance)

- Group of 16 Bena Budia men, 16 Bena Budia men, Hugh Tracey

Nalongana maani (What will I do today)

- Kaseba Anatole, Hugh Tracey

Shabansa katende

- Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase with 9 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Tombe chenipape change mishemba (The one who stole is dead)

- Kabango Prospere and friends, Kabango Prospere, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Tuhuri

- Large group of Kasai women and 6 men, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

wa ya ye ku chika. Chishiba mai walene (The water that does not move)

- Large group of of Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of of Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kasai f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137812 , vital:37562 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-10
  • Description: The item starts with the sound of the double bell and a weighted drum, follwed by the recitative statement by the leader. Eventually the full chorus begins with a simple repeated refrain. The pauses in the drum rhythm mark the moment when one of the drummers throws up his drum into the air, catches it again betwenn his knees and continues the rhythm without losing tempo. It is a clever piece of showmanship and clearly enjoyed by the participators in the dance. Mambala dance song with 5 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten and 1 double bell and basket rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wadianda wa Bena Shimba (We are the people of Bena Shimba)

- Group of 9 Bena Shimba women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 9 Bena Shimba women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Northern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139183 , vital:37712 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-01
  • Description: This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gourds through a length of metal pipe or tube, the gourd-blowers also struck the sides of the gourds with their hands. The gourds of this group were handsomely decorated with metal studs arranged in patterns. When asked when they performed this song, the answer was, "we sing it for funerals, but also on any sad occassion, for example when a man has to pay a large sum of money to another. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), hand clapping (-12.03-) and 1 bottle (-12.17-).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wenda nemukwene wa mudinga (If you walk with your friend, tell him to walk discreetly)

- Nyundu Gabriel (flute) and Kwadi Bonza (mbira) with Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Ambila baBemba na baLamba

- Group of Lulua soilders and women, Hugh Tracey

Bana twai musalemba

- Kayoka Ladislas and group of Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Bena kasai ba kalenga balala nenyema pamwe

- Group of Lulua soilders and women, Hugh Tracey

Bikunda kabichena kusela

- Kalonji Marcel, Hugh Tracey

Bilumbu

- Luba/Hemba men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Luba/Hemba men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kongolo f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183977 , vital:44104 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-11
  • Description: The singers of this item had come north, down the Lualaba river ans were over 400 miles from their home in Kongolo, near the junction of the Lualaba with its tributory which drains the overflow flood waters from Lake Tanganyika. This simple repetitive song is similar to many others associated with divination - the repititions in themselves exercising a kind of hypnotic effect suited to teh occassion. Song and dance for herbalist or diviner, with 2 goblet drums, with mirlitons and closed, and rattles (-12.54-)
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Chamukumai

- Group of Lulua soilders and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Lulua soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Luluabourg f-rh
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182182 , vital:43807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-01
  • Description: The Chisanzhi Mbira is the traditional type of the district: the basket rattle is a well-known woven article with a handle; the rattles had wooden handles and an open work basket head with beer bottle tops inside. The bottle is a common percussion instrument among the Lulua and the singing gourd is the favourite instrument of women's choirs in southern Congo into which they sing, lip or hum notes related to the fundamenta; note of the gourd. The somewhat strange sound of the singing gourd is the first heard at approximately 1m:30s from the start of this song. Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Chibemba

- Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players), Hugh Tracey

Chihibalumuna bembi

- Louis Mulowa and Lunda men, Hugh Tracey

Chila twachinda naba matombo

- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey

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