Frogtoon Musique

New Recordings From Coast Province Kenya (Album) by Mukunguni

Biographie de l'artiste pour Mukunguni

Field Recordings Of The Mijikenda Tribes Made In Different Spots In And Around Mukunguni Village Coastal Kenya Throughout September 2011 Mostly Healing Music Especially For Mental Problems But Also Love-Songs And Spiritual Contributions To Weddings And Burials Mostly In The Sengenya Style Which Evolved In The Early Twentieth Century Adding Pace New Tsikitsi Rhythms And Extra Drums To The Traditional Dumbwi Forms Of The Duruma Tribe. Besides The Sengenya Drums — Bumbumbu Dahdahe Chapuro Vumi Ngoma — There Are Lungo And Dena Metal Rings Kayamba Raft Rattle Njunga Bells Ukaya Metal Tray Bamba Metal Guiro And Bottle-Tops. Our Album Opener Is Solo Dena Played To Sound Like A Bat And Heal The Village Sick With The Ear For Frequency And Timbre Of A Stringent Minimalist. There Are The Piercing Reeded Nzumari Oboe And Bung'o Horn Sounding Like Fierce Free-Jazz Improvisation And Two Gently Stunning Marimba Solos With Complex Overlaid Melodies And Rhythms Played In Polyphonic Accents Almost Like Talking Drums. Most Of The Recordings Here Are Songs With Strong Tunes Robustly Delivered Different Solo Voices Leading The Group — To Heal To Chase Away Pepo Mlume The Devil Who Poisons The Imagination To Get You On Your Feet Dancing To Celebrate Dowry Payments And Weddings To Bring The Mijikenda Cultural Inheritance To Life. Matatizo — 'Worries' — Was Recorded Spontaneously At A Bus-Stop Waiting For A Ride It's A Swahili Love-Song With A Plaintive Female Vocal Performed To The Accompaniment Of Five Or So People Clapping And Rubbing Their Palms Together. 'The Lord Conferred This Love On Us My Sister. Is It Human Or From The Angels? Does It Emanate From Binoculars... Or Computers? I Can't Figure It Out But My Heart Aches So Badly.'

ACCUEIL MUKUNGUNI
POPULAIRES PISTES MIXES ALBUMS
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