Hugh Tracey - Musical Instruments - 7 - Guitars 2

Hugh Tracey - The Music of Africa Series
- Musical Instruments 7 - Guitars 2
Kaleidophone - KMA 7 - P.1972






Side A

A1 Manwani kufiki wanda - Ilunga Patrice & Misobma Victor (Luba-Hemba, Kolwezi, Katanga, Congo) 2'44
A2 Kanelo - Ilunga Patrice & Misobma Victor (Luba-Hemba, Kolwezi, Katanga, Congo) 3'02
A3 Guabi, guabi - George Sibanda (Ndebele, Bulawayo, Rhodesia 2'48
A4 Kissicha moto-moto - J.P. Oden (Swahili, Kidumu, Kenya) 2'31
A5 Maza kilio-e  - Jean Bosco Mwenda (Swahili, Jadotville, Katanga, Congo) 2'53
A6 Shia bantwana aosela lagavia - Nomuswiti Citaumvano and Uvakutsiwo (Xhosho-Mpondo, Lusikisiki, Pondoland, Cap, South Africa) 2'56

Side B

B1 Masenga wa Bena Nomba - Ngoi Nono, Kabonga Anastase and friends (Luba-Songe, Kabongo, Katanga, Congo) 4'31
B2 Katikalepake, katikatobeke (About to snap, about to break) - Isac Matafwana and Sunkutu (Bemba, Mufulka, Zambia) 3'01
B3 Mpenzi wangu umepotea mjini - Lang Obierto and a group of Luo men (Luo, Yala in Gem, near Kisumu, Kenya) 2'54
B4 Safari ya baraka - Ombiza Charles with his wife (Swahili-Ngwana, Kisangani, Congo) 2'55
B5 Masenga - Ilunga Patrice & Misomba Victor and friends (Luba-Hemba, Kolwezi, Katanga, Congo) 2'53
B6 Nahawandi (Udi solo) - Bom Ambaron (Swahili-Nguja, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania) 2'47


Here is Guitar 2, to my knowledge the last of the Hugh Tracey series on Kaleidophone. I like these two volumes (the previous post and this one) very very much and they have gotten a lot of playtime over the years. To me much of this music seems very sweet and innocent and always puts me in a good mood. This is music for close by friends, played in a world where people are not full of pretence or deceitfulness. A lot of idealistic nonsense you say! Self deception! So what, I rather deceive myself that have other people doing it for me! Anyhow I will be posting many more records of African music, mostly field recordings and not always this sweet. Again, I hope you enjoy!



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Hugh Tracey - Musical Instruments - 6 - Guitars 1

Hugh Tracy - The Music of Africa Series
Musical Instruments 6 - Guitars 1
Kaleidophone - KMA 6 - P.1972




Side A

A1 Masanga - Jean Bosco Mwenda (Luba-Sanga, Jadotville, Katanga, Congo) 3'01
A2 Mama na mwana (Mother and child) - Jean Bosco Mwenda (Ngala, Jadotville, Katanga, Congo) 3'00
A3 Ayu welele wa Mhalaka (Alas for a bachelor) - Ngoi Noao, Kabongo Anastase, and friends (Luba-Songe, Kabongo, Katanga, Congo) 3'04
A4 Mama Josefina - Ilunga Patrice & Misomba Victor (Luba-Hemba, Kabinda, Kasai, Congo) 2'48
A5 Antoinette wa Kolwezi - Ilunga Patrice & Misoma Victor (Luba-Hemba, Kolwezi Copper Mine, Katanga, Congo) 3'07
A6 Muleka mwene ngole - Kaseba Anatole (Luba-Shankadi, Kolwezi Copper Mine, Katanga, Congo) 3'04

Side B

B1 Muleka Mwene Yombwe - Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase, and friends (Luba-Songe, Kabongo, Katanga, Congo) 4'00
B2 Nyon anyona (Walk proudly) - Lang Obiero and Luo men (Luo, Yala in Gem, near Kisumu, Kenya) 3'03
B3 Pini ochama (I was without hope) - Lang Obiero and Luo men (Luo, Yala in Gem, near Kisumu, Kenya) 2'43
B4 Anagikafu ragitake - Deab Rizgala (Nubi, Mbale, Uganda) 2'38
B5 A Desayo - Morris Kalala and an Ngala girl (Ngala, Kinshasa Congo) 2'50
B6 Iuwale-o-Iuwale (Start, o start the song) - Mbasela Kunda & William Munyanda (Lala, Setenje, Zambia) 2'43




I promised this one long ago and finally I took some new better photos and made a new rip to go along with it. Gutar 2 will follow shortly Hope you enjoy.

Guitars 1


It is not certain when guitars were first imported into Central, Eastern, a Southern Africa. They are likely to have been introduced along the seaboard by Portuguese sailors and traders during the seventeenth century, and still earlier by Arabs down the east coast - where the typically Arabian instrument, the Ud (or lute) is still played today by those who claim part-Arab ancestry. The popularity of the guitar among African players became established with the development of industries and the consequent movement of large numbers of people into urban surroundings, away from the normal sources of supply for traditional instruments.

By 1950 the use of a guitar had become the hallmark of ‘town’ music, as opposed to the more familiar forms of country music; the songs for the most part being distant imitations of foreign material set to vernacular wads.

The ability of African musicians to master the instrument varies considerably in different parts of the continent. The majority of players in the south use only the thrumming styles, limited almost exclusively to a ground bass of the three common chords; while players in the Congo and in parts of East Africa have developed the more distinctive styles of contrapuntal playing. Most African players make constant use of a capotasto on the second, third, or fourth fret in order to avoid the greater fingering distances of the open strings.

The proliferation of factories producing simple and inexpensive guitars for the African market has brought the instrument into prominence during the last decade but has added little to innate musicality or to the craft of indigenous instrument making; the skill of the guitar players featured in this record is the exception rather than the rule.

from the original liner notes on the back sleeve by Hugh Tracey

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Hugh Tracey - The Music of Africa Series - Rhodesia 1 - 1972

Hugh Tracey - The Music of Africa Series

Anthology - Rhodesia 1

Kaleidophone - KMA 8 - P.1972

Side A

A1 Detyetye kusheka (To laugh) - Tabarirevu Muyambo - Ndau - Rhodesia, 1963 - 3'34
A2 Tabarirewu woenda - Tabarirevu Muyambo - Ndau - Rhodesia, 1963 - 3'23
A3 Samandozaiwe - Dance song with clapping by Ndau men - 2'48
A4 Pfeni ne ngoma - Story of the baboon and the drum by Muchaenda - 3'00
A5a Dendera jikwa - Friction Bow tune - Jeketi - Karanga - 1'21
A5b Murombo - Friction Bow tunes - Jeketi - Karanga - 1'31
A6 Ngoma dze Ngorombe - Drum rhythms by three drummers - Sena - Tonga - 4'05

Side B

B1 Pimchinanga - Zezuru - 1'28
B2 Madumbu ne manyere - Song by Teacher Training College, St. Augustine's - 2'38
B3 Nzio ya Gudo - The Song of the Baboon, Runeso Gumbo, vcl, mbira - Karanga - 2'23
B4 Chirongo - Song with Kalimba - Mugadzikwa - Karanga - 1'33
B5 Nheura - Tune on the Njari - Chabarwa - Zezuru - 2'44
B6 Masongano - Tune on the Njari - Chabarwa - Zezuru  1'57
B7 Three flute tunes - Domboshawa School Boys - 2'36
B8 Three physical training songs - Domboshawa School Boys - 2'18
B9 Ishe Komborera Afrika -  God Save Africa - Domboshawa School Boys - 2'15

Here is the Rhodesia volume of the Hugh Tracey anthologies of field recordings from Africa on Kaleidophone. There will be two more records with guitar music coming, but I have still to locate them to take new photos as the ones I had are a bit to blurred to present here. But there are so many things to post so do not worry. It still feels like I have just begun! Hope you enjoy this one!

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Hugh Tracey - The Music of Africa Series - Uganda 1

Hugh Tracey - The Music of Africa Series

Anthology - Uganda 1

Kaleidophone - KMA 10 - P.1972

Side A

Abalere ba Kabaka. The Flute and Drum Band.

A1 Kikwabanga 2'35
A2 Asenga omwami tagayala 2'41

Abadongo ba Kabaka. The Lute Flute and Lyre Band.

A3 Ekubuga ekigya Bamunanika 2'51

Entamivu za Kabaka. The Drum and Xylophone Band.

A4 Ssematimba 2'39
A5 Kalagala ebwembe 2'48

Entenga za Kabaka. The Tuned Drum Band.

A6 Kyuma 2'25
A7 Kasime omugu ndigwa 2'48



Side B


B1 Akontaiba 1'36
B2 Nkende yamuyayu - The waist of the wild cat 1'08
B3 Akasozi mwiri 1'55
B4 Waikova - The crow 2'55
B5 Wamubrigwe 2'51
B6 Kate kalume 2'36
B7 Ensega mwoyo 2'46
B8 Odhanga igulogulo - You would come every afternoon 1'18
B9 Omukyalo riga bamugeya 1'06

Hope you will enjoy some more Hugh Trace recordings. This time from Uganda, time does not allow me to say more than that it is full of good music. My only gripe is that there are some pieces that would have benefited a great deal if they had been a bit longer! More Indian music later...

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Music From Rwanda - recorded 1954-55 by Denyse Hiernaux-L'hoëst

Music From Rwanda

Recordings and documentation by Denyse Hiernaux-L'hoëst 1954-55
Photography by Jaques J. Maquet

In collaboration with the Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren 

An Anthology Of African Music 2
Bärenreiter • Musicaphon - BM 30 L 2302 - P.1965






Side A

Tutsi

No. 1 Rukina, Seven drums of the mwami with song. - Nyanza 5'02
No. 2 Song with handclapping - Rurambo 3'01
No. 3 Umuhara, Song of the spirits - Astrida 2'20
No. 4 Guhindura - Cyinkanga (Nyanza territory) 2'36
No. 5 Muberule, Board Zitehr - Rurambo 2'46
No. 6 Kana, name of a woman - Astrida 3'06
No. 7 Chandali, Mens song with zither accompaniment - Astrida 3'07
No. 8 Ikimanura, Arrival of the Tutsi - Nyanza 3'33


Side A total time 25'31


Side B


Hutu

No. 9 Mugore W'Ingare, the difficult woman - Astrida 2'08
No. 10 Induru Ni Ndende, the war cry is long - Astrida 5'04
No. 11 Ikondera, song of the brides friends - Astrida 1'53
No. 12 Ntawundi mwana nkibyara ndakuze, he can no longer procreate, he's to old - Astrida 3'22
No. 13 Kubangurira, Pastoral song - Astrida 1'54
No. 14 Ingare, the shrew - Astrida 2'05
No. 15 Agasambi, the royal crane - Astrida 3'15
No. 16 Nshoz' Uruyange, praise of an army corps - Musha 1'57
No. 17 Ibare, in praise of a chieftain - Cyinkanga (Nyanza territory) 2'33



Side B total time 29'42

We had three records before from Rwanda, all published by Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren and the volume in this Unesco series is a collaboration with that same Museum. 

Rwanda Map

Rwanda Map (detail)

Hutu dance of the brides friends

Hutu dance of the brides friends

Hutu musical bow

Hutu vertical flute

Hutu vertical flute

Inanga

Tutsi. Seven drums of the Mwami

Tutsi. Umuhara song of spirits

Twa. Makondera orchestra

Twa song and dance

Young Tutsi singer

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Nigeria III - Igbo Music - Recorded by David W. Ames

Nigeria III - Igbo Music
Recorded by David W. Ames
Bärenreiter • Musicaphon - BM 30 L 2311 - P.1965



Side A

No. 1 Ikorodo Music 3'18
No. 2 Ikorodo Music 2'42
No. 3 Ikorodo Music 5'21
No. 4 Ikorodo Music 3'46
No. 5 Boasting Song 0'36
No. 6 Ekwe Masquerade Music 4'50
No. 7 Okobonyi Funerla Music 3'27

A-side total time 24'00

Side B

No. 8 Egara Music 2'20
No. 9 Raft Zither Music 6'14
No. 10 Wrestling Music 2'33
No. 11 Igede Eze Music 2'19
No. 12 Grinding Song 2'26
No. 13 Ogwume Music 5'00
No. 14 Moonlight Play Song 2'32


B-side total time 23'24

I am very happy to post this record as I know there are a few of you that has waited for it to arrive here. Well the wait is over and both the music and the documentation is great. I hope you will enjoy it! 

Now shall we move on to Sudan maybe? There are still many yet to be posted from this series! I am happy that finally all the editing comes to fruition. The Bärenreiters and the Ocoras are my biggest undertaking yet it seems, and soon enough I will also start posting more also from the first series of the Bärenreiters. I have been walking around the Tibet, India and Japan series like a cat around hot porridge. But do not despair! Soon it seems the temperature shall be right!  Those of you that have patiently waited especially for the India LPs. Well, I assure you, they will come! Both the grey ones and the green ones. They are ripped and ready but still needs a little cosmetic editing!

An ozo title holder

Keeper of the Ekwe shrine dancing

Arrival of the senior Ekwe masquerade

An Ikorodo masquerader

Arrival of the junior Ekwe masquerade

The Ikorodo association orchestra of Agulize village 1963

The Ikorodo association orchestra of Agulize village 1975

Four side-blown calabash horns used in Ikorodo orchestras

An Ikorodo masquerade dancer

Instruments used in the Ikorodo orchestra

Long open cylindrical drum used in Ikorodo orchestras

Dancing to Ikorodo music

Dancing to Ikorodo music

Age set chanting a boasting song

Arrival of the senior Ekwe masquerade with its drummer

Side-blown elephant tusk horn blown by Ezema Nwodo Eze

The Ekwe association band heralding the arrival of its masquerade

The junior Ekwe masquerade

with a member blowing elephant tusk horn

An end-blown notch flute

Blowing an end-blown notch flute for Okobonyi music

An Okobonyi ensemble performing at a second burial ceremony

Firing Dane guns while Okobonyi music is being performed

A raft zither

Johnson Ezenwoka playing a raft zither

An ensemble performing raft zither music at a second burial ceremony

Raft zither player with an Egara singer

Ensemble performing wrestling music.

Igede eze music performed by the people of Omo Ekwa village.

An Ogwume

Playing the Ogwume

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