Ngoneni Mongo Krekels
This piece was commissioned by Tania Adam from Radio Africa Magazine to make a sound collage with African music. It is composed with 37 loops coming from 26 different songs Here you can see the map with their origins and the albums where they are found.
In this map you can see where each song comes from and its recording date
live recording of the piece with the visuals developed by Esperanza Moreno in Processing
- album: [KMA 1] Musical Instruments 1 - Strings
- artist: Rosalina Ndhlole y Juana Nkosi
- place: Swazilandia, 1972
Topical song with Makeyana (one-string stressed bow, gourd-resonated. This little song was sung by two elderly Swazi women, one of whom play the bow. Among the Swazi and Zulu the Makeyana bow is a woman's instrument.
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- album: Opika Pende: Africa at 78 rpm
- artist: Kamkam
- place: Ghana, 2011
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- album: Ivory Coast: Dan Masks
- artist: The Dan people
- place: Costa de Marfil, 1965
Stirring ritual music from the Ivory Coast recorded during the festival of the masks in the mid-sixties. The combination of masked voices, percussion, and bull-roarers will keep any malevolent spirits at bay.
- album: va - Before Benga Vol.1: Kenya Dry [OMCD 021]
- artist: VA
- place: Kenia, 1988
This enchanting song from the 1950's is a perfect illustration of the fact that there was no wall between 'traditional' and 'modern' or between 'rural' and 'urban' music. The guitar, its playing and the singing style are pretty much identical with a lot of traditional Kipsigis material, but the tittle and theme of this praise song is Jimmie Rodgers, the singing Brakeman and the first U.S. country star of international reknown. The Kipsigis are a Nilotic ethnic group of Kenya
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'Wakuvina Uwuvina Wengoma (Kvinornas Trumdans)'
'Nindo'
- album: Musik fran tanzania
- artist: Wagogo people
- place: Tanzania, 1974
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- album: Al-Qahirah - Classical Music of Cairo, Egypt
- artist: VA
- place: Egipto, 1998
Smaiea rhythm. The samâ'i, like the bashraf, deals with roundel forms, which were developed in the Persian-Turkish region.
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- album: SAMO- music from above volta
- artist: VA
- place: Burkina Faso, 1971
Recorded By - Jan Broekhuyse
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'Ollin Aragiid'
'Shergangallo (Let us go eastwards)'
- album: Musik der Nubier
- artist: Hassan Mohammed Gamal, Mohammed Hassan Awad and a group of hanclapping men
- place: Sudan, 1980
Handclapping and dancing
Religious song mainly performed at the farewell and welcome of the pilgrims for Mekka. Recorded by Artur Simon
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- album: [ocora] Burundi: Musiques Traditionnelles
- artist: VA
- place: Burundi, 1967
Recorded from 1967 to 1970 in Ngozi, Bujumbura, Bukirasazi & Kayanza (Burundi). The ingoma is a drum covered with a membrane of animal skin. The top of the drum is always broader than the bottom. The ingoma is usually cylindrical in form, tapering only in the lower section of the instrument, although the drum shell can also taper gradually over its entire length. Making an ingoma is a long and delicate process and is therefore entrusted to specialised drum makers, assisted by a woodworker who prepares the hide.
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- album: Al-Maghrib & Gnâwa Music, Marrakesh, Morocco
- artist: Kharmouss Mahdjoub, Hamzaoui Ahmed
- place: Marruecos, 1998
"`Âda" means custom or habit. This piece consists of a suite of songs and much acrobatic dancing on the part of the Gnawa.
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- album: [KMA 10] Hugh Tracy • The Music of Africa Series - Uganda 1 - P.1972
- artist: Mulobo maswa
- place: Uganda, 1972
Two Ndere flutes (made of bamboo). Mulobo Maswa was the official player at the court of the Kyabazinga of Busoga for many years. He plays on a four-holed V-notched Ndere flute made of bamboo.
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- album: Petites musiques du Zaïre (18 Easy Pieces of Intimate Zaïre Music)
- artist: Ethnie Mongo-bosaka
- place: Rep. Dem. del Congo, 1995
- album: Anthologie de la Musique du Niger
- artist: Various
- place: Nigeria, 1963
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- album: Various – Music of the Ba-Benjellé Bayaka
- artist: VA
- place: Rep. Centroafricana, 1985
Recorded by Louis Sarno + Bernie Kraus
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- album: Cameroon: Musiques du Cameroon - Bakweri/Bamileke/Bamoun/Beti
- artist: Christina N'gantchan Group (Bamileke-Bafoussam)
- place: Camerun, 1965
Ocora OCR. 25, Recorded at Buea on February 10, 1965
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- album: The Afro-Arabian Crossroad
- artist: Music Of The Tihama On The Red Sea
- place: Yemen, 1982
A song performed in Hodeida by Ubayd Salim, an itinerant musician. He accompanies himself on the simsimiya, a typical Red Sea instrument associated with sailors and fishermen. The song is attributed to the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid, but is most likely of Tihama origin. Video: tihama yemen in 1937 trip mr depto (from youtube channel Mohammed Saad) Recorded by Anderson Bakwell-lyricord LLST 7384
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'Chant Ekonda avec accompagnement de chitare sur bâton'
'Danse Esoya'
- album: [OCR 53] Polyphonies Mongo
- artist: Mola Moliebe
- place: Rep. Dem. del Congo, 1970
Recordings made by Benoit Quersin in the Democratic Repblic of Congo during the months April and May in 1970.
This region is near the Equator in an area between Lake Tumba and the village Itipo. The population in the area around the lake consist of Ntomba and furteher away of the Ekonda, there are also a number of Batwa of pygmy origin. The lanscape is flat and almost entirely covered by large equatorial forest.
The Esoya dance is placed before the Bobongo ballet.
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- album: Maskanda Roots Vol.1: 1927-1952
- artist: MAMEYEGUDI AND HIS DANCERS
- place: Sudafrica, 1932
Sound recordings of Gilbert Rouget and Noël Ballif on the pygmy music of the upper Sangha in 1946.
The Babinga (name given by the blacks and meaning hunters) Bagombé are elephant hunters. Before undertaking an expedition, the men observe during a certain time strict sexual prohibitions, then the day before or the morning of the departure, the women sing this magic song, Yéli, thanks to which the hunters will quickly raise 'the meat'.
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- album: Musiques des Mitsogho et des Batéké
- artist: MItsogho people /Bwiti ritual
- place: Gabon, 1984
masked voice, male chorus, kéndo iron bell with curved handle, mosumba drum. Certain rites connected with another important brotherhood of initiates are integrated in the bwiti ceremonies, particulary for mourning. Ya Mwèï, the tutelary spirit associated with the history of the tribe, is then invoked.
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- album: Aissaoua Sufi Ceremony, Marrakesh, Morocco
- artist: 'Aîssâoua team at a house deep in medina, Marrakesh
- place: Marruecos, 1998
Interjections of ululations (zghârit) and invocations of the Prophet that are integral sonic componet of the hadra.
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- album: Spirit of African Sanctus
- artist: VA
- place: Uganda, 1969
- album: Camaroon: Flutes of the Mandara Mountains (Ocora 560110)
- artist: VA
- place: Camerun, 1996
recorded by Nathalie Fernando, Fabrice Marandola
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