Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, ...
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In the early 1960s, when Stella Chiweshe was a teenager in the southern African country of Zimbabwe, she wanted to learn mbira -- a thumb piano with metal keys that was used primarily in spirit ...
Musician Miriam Lishomwa, popularly known as Amadhuve Sasha in the arts circles, believes mbira music will to be the next big genre in Zimbabwe. With a reverberating voice that evokes memories of ...
Originally released in 1971 as analog disc (H-72043). Original liner notes (16 p. : ill.) inserted in container. Dumisani Abraham Maraire, mbira, vocals ; Nkosana ...
SAMPLE Chigumbu is arguably one of the most refined makers of traditional music instruments like marimba and mbira and has also maintained their traditional sounds and melodies through song and the ...
What happened to good old Christmas releases? In the past when Gramma Records and Zimbabwe Music Corporation were truly active, they would, around this time, release compilation albums of the singles ...
Harare, Zimbabwe – Dzivarasekwa, a nondescript township on the southwestern rims of Zimbabwe’s capital, copies the 1907 template of the first ghetto, Harari (now Mbare): grim, monotonous, matchbox ...