Add to ORKGThe Kalimba, they say, is a comparatively new to this district and people. They have recently begun to learn it from the Nsenga at Fort Jameson where this player had gone to work on a Europen farm there in 1922. "You always call me 'dear' with your mouth, but what kind of 'dear' is this if you do not let me sleep with you?" This is a pleasnt little melody set against an appropriate accompaniment. The player's old voice does not do his own melody credit, as so often happens among folk singers, and it should be performed by a younger person to bring out its virtue. Love song with Kalimba Mbira (nine notes
The kalimba described here is one used by the Lunda people in the North Western Province of Northern...
The player has worked in a store in Livingstone for 5 years. He comes from Lyatolo village near Mong...
"Gitamale is a greedy girl." The Kipango, Bango or Bangwe is a popular instrument from here southwar...
An unusaual example of a young Karanga boy playing a Kalimba Mbira instead of the Njari played by hi...
The player was a man about 55 years. His father taught him to play the instrument as a child. Tuning...
"Yotamu wanted the the chief to imprison me." The plaer sings, not in unison with his instrument, bu...
The player was a man about 55 years. His father taught him to play the instrument as a child. Tuning...
He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but...
The instrument was played inside a somewhat broken gourd. The player said his mother was a Nyungwe a...
"To play the 'Kalimba' is to be happy. I remember long ago when I was a small child when I thought a...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "It is good to walk along ...
The music quoted in this article was played to me by Leonard Kembe, who is one of the few educated Z...
Kalimba is a series of seven self-contained movements, and at the same time the complete cycle is a ...
These Ngombi Likembe (Mbira) are played with the instrument slung from the players shoulders. They a...
He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but...
The kalimba described here is one used by the Lunda people in the North Western Province of Northern...
The player has worked in a store in Livingstone for 5 years. He comes from Lyatolo village near Mong...
"Gitamale is a greedy girl." The Kipango, Bango or Bangwe is a popular instrument from here southwar...
An unusaual example of a young Karanga boy playing a Kalimba Mbira instead of the Njari played by hi...
The player was a man about 55 years. His father taught him to play the instrument as a child. Tuning...
"Yotamu wanted the the chief to imprison me." The plaer sings, not in unison with his instrument, bu...
The player was a man about 55 years. His father taught him to play the instrument as a child. Tuning...
He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but...
The instrument was played inside a somewhat broken gourd. The player said his mother was a Nyungwe a...
"To play the 'Kalimba' is to be happy. I remember long ago when I was a small child when I thought a...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "It is good to walk along ...
The music quoted in this article was played to me by Leonard Kembe, who is one of the few educated Z...
Kalimba is a series of seven self-contained movements, and at the same time the complete cycle is a ...
These Ngombi Likembe (Mbira) are played with the instrument slung from the players shoulders. They a...
He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but...
The kalimba described here is one used by the Lunda people in the North Western Province of Northern...
The player has worked in a store in Livingstone for 5 years. He comes from Lyatolo village near Mong...
"Gitamale is a greedy girl." The Kipango, Bango or Bangwe is a popular instrument from here southwar...