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Don Letts with Burning Spear and Thomas Mapfumo at Island Records 1990

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"Unyielding Spirit: Zimbabwean Heroes and Heroines in the Pursuit of Transformation"

In the realm of hardships, where poverty casts its heavy veil upon our land, I hold deep respect for every Zimbabwean soul, toiling ceaselessly day and night. We find ourselves entrenched in a nation besieged by destitution, where the vast majority, if not all, who dwell in the realm of the impoverished, languish in its suffocating grip. These days, both yesterday and today, serve as poignant reminders of the indomitable spirit that courses through the veins of many Zimbabweans.

Truly, we are the unsung heroes and heroines, entangled in the intricate webs of political quagmires and economic tribulations. Yet, with unwavering determination, we press on, striving to make ends meet in a country plagued by corruption, soaring unemployment rates, economic turmoil, political unrest, and the relentless persecution of those who dare to speak up. Men and women, girls and boys, have played instrumental roles in the positive transformation of our nation, though their efforts often go unnoticed. It is not solely the veterans of the liberation struggle to whom we owe our gratitude, for even the born frees have contributed their part.

The absence of participation in armed conflict should not be a cause for condemnation, but alas, it becomes a burden when one finds themselves persecuted for not shouldering the burden of war. Among us, there exists a multitude of individuals who have tirelessly worked to make Zimbabwe a better nation. Today, I find it fitting to pay homage to the musicians, both mortal and immortal, who have labored to bring about positive change in our beloved land. Let us recognize the contributions of figures like Oliver Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo, Simon "Chopper" Chimbetu, Leonard Dembo, Chiwoniso Maraire, and countless others who have used their melodies to inspire and uplift.

In the realm of literature, we encounter the luminous presence of Dambudzo Marechera, David Mungoshi, Charles Mungoshi, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and their peers. These literary gurus have fearlessly wielded their pens, painting vivid portraits that illuminate the pursuit of freedom for the black man. Their unwavering efforts, often underappreciated, have served as beacons guiding us towards a brighter future.

Let us channel the spirit of God, embracing his boundless creativity, as we acknowledge the multitude of Zimbabweans who have fervently supported the transformation of our nation. Together, we stand united, a tapestry woven from the threads of resilience and hope. May the credit and recognition they deserve be bestowed upon their weary shoulders, and may their unwavering dedication continue to shape Zimbabwe into a beacon of progress and prosperity.

Written by Daniel Mizu.

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DON CHERRY - Dedication To Thomas Mapfumo

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this song is gorgeous. Carly’s voice is perfect for this echoing post-punk groove; it vaporizes into the song’s technical jangle, allowing the feeling to seep in around the edges of a bouncy beat. where the rising chord changes in the chorus bespeak tension, drowning, and discord, the vocal offers peace within the chaos.

as one of the youtube comments indicates, this song also heavily samples, uncredited, this one:

this is “pfumvu pa ruzevha” by Thomas mapfumo, a Zimbabwean guitarist and activist. the title translates to “trouble in the preserves” - a lament about the difficult living conditions in Zimbabwe’s rural areas. the song was written in 1977, under the colonial regime in the country; its lyrics narrate how city centers, flush with cash from colonial economic structures, flourish while residents of the countryside suffer in poverty and watch their families die.

pop music is amazing, a sort of broad-scale hymn for a society with no gods. like hymns, pop unites people of different experiences and origins; like hymns, it can act as an opiate as much as a balm. through ignorance or malice, pop can hurt people, can be indefensible. “trouble in the streets” steals from “pfumvu pa ruzevha”; it’s not the first nor is it probably the last time that a group of white artists will take the work of a black artist and bleed it of its meaning. without the central, circular riff, bc unidos’ track loses all of its power and forward motion; that central riff is not theirs to claim. they know this. it’s why it wasn’t mentioned anywhere that this riff is mapfumo’s (the closest information on the internet is an obscure interview with Ariel pink around its release, in which he describes the riff as “a short loop/sample of a highlife recording” that he then built the chord progression off of). it’s why the sample remains uncredited, why mapfumo is not listed among the song’s writers. his piece is the most essential; it provides the engine of the track. but “trouble in the streets” dishonors its parent song by making its central conflict about lovers on the outs. its existence implies that the suffering in one place can be converted, no questions asked, to the pleasure of another.

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Zimbabwe Mbira; traditional xylophone music instrument, legendary artists from the Southern Africa nation

Zimbabwe Mbira; traditional xylophone music instrument, legendary artists from the Southern Africa nation

Tendayi Samaita Gahamadze the Gwenyambira famously known for playing the Dongonda mbira It is difficult to trace the origins of Zimbabwean music back to pre-Rhodesian times as there is no documented information on musical activities during the pre-colonial period. What is known for a fact is that there were a lot of musical activities in Zimbabwe long before the arrival of the Europeans in the…

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Politics In Zimbabwe Has A New Soundtrack

Politics In Zimbabwe Has A New Soundtrack

Author: Ari Shapiro / Source: NPR.org

Zinzile Majola, 27-year-old singer of Friends Band, says it felt like a window opening when Mugabe left. “It actually gave us more confidence that things would change from now on, from the way they were, from the way they used to be,” Majola says.

Music and politics have always been intertwined, from “Yankee Doodle” to “A Change is Gonna Come.” And that’s…

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Music Genres

This is a rundown of a portion of the world's music sort and their definitions.

African People - Music held to be regular of a country or ethnic gathering, known to all portions of its general public, and protected for the most part by oral custom.

Afro jazz - Alludes to jazz music which has been vigorously impacted by African music. The music took components of marabi, swing and American jazz and blended this into a novel combination. The primary band to truly accomplish this union was the South African band Jazz Crazy people.

Afro-beat - Is a blend of Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms, melded with African percussion and vocal styles, promoted in Africa during the 1970s.

Afro-Pop - Afropop or Afro Pop is a term now and then used to allude to contemporary African popular music. The term doesn't allude to a particular style or sound, however is utilized as a general term to depict African well known music.

Apala - Initially got from the Yoruba nation of Nigeria. It is a percussion-based style that created in the last part of the 1930s, when waking admirers subsequent to fasting during the Islamic heavenly month of Ramadan was utilized.

Assiko - is a well known dance from the South of Cameroon. The band is normally founded on a vocalist went with a guitar, and a percussionnist playing the throbbing mood of Assiko with metal blades and forks on a vacant container.

Batuque - is a music and dance kind from Cape Verde.

Twist Skin - is a sort of metropolitan Cameroonian famous music. Kouchoum Mbada is the most notable gathering related with the class.

Benga - Is a melodic kind of Kenyan famous music. It developed between the last part of the 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.

Biguine - is a style of music that began in Martinique in the nineteenth hundred years. By joining the conventional bele music with the polka, the dark artists of Martinique made the biguine, which involves three particular styles, the biguine de salon, the biguine de bal and the biguines de regret.

Bikutsi - is a melodic type from Cameroon. It created from the customary styles of the Beti, or Ewondo, individuals, who live around the city of Yaounde.

Bongo Flava - it has a blend of rap, hip jump, and R&B first of all yet these names don't do it equity. It's rap, hip jump and R&B Tanzanian style: a major mixture of tastes, history, culture and character.

Rhythm - is a specific series of stretches or harmonies that closes an expression, segment, or piece of music.

Calypso - is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which began in Trinidad at about the beginning of the twentieth 100 years. The foundations of the class lay in the appearance of African slaves, who, not being permitted to talk with one another, conveyed through melody.

Chaabi - is a famous music of Morocco, basically the same as the Algerian Rai.

Chimurenga - is a Zimbabwean famous music kind begat by and promoted by Thomas Mapfumo. Chimurenga is a Shona language word for battle.

Chouval Bwa - highlights percussion, bamboo woodwind, accordion, and wax-paper/brush type kazoo. The music started among rustic Martinicans.

Christian Rap - is a type of rap which utilizes Christian subjects to communicate the lyricist's confidence.

Coladeira - is a type of music in Cape Verde. Its component rises to funacola which is a combination of funanáa and coladera. Well known coladera performers incorporates Antoninho Travadinha.

Contemporary Christian - is a class of well known music which is melodiously centered around issues worried about the Christian confidence.

Country - is a mix of famous melodic structures initially tracked down in the Southern US and the Appalachian Mountains. It has establishes in conventional society music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and bygone era music and developed quickly during the 1920s.

Ballroom - is a kind of Jamaican famous music which created in the last part of the 1970s, with examples like Yellowman and Shabba Positions. It is otherwise called bashment. The style is portrayed by an emcee singing and toasting (or rapping) over crude and danceable music riddims.

Disco - is a classification of dance-situated popular music that was promoted in dance clubs during the 1970s.

Society - in the most fundamental feeling of the term, is music by and for the average citizens.

Free-form - is a type of electronic music that is intensely impacted by Latin American culture.

Fuji - is a famous Nigerian melodic kind. It emerged from the spontaneous creation Ajisari/were music custom, which is a sort of Muslim music performed to wake devotees before sunrise during the Ramadan fasting season.

Funana - is a blended Portuguese and African music and dance from Santiago, Cape Verde. It is said that the lower part of the body development is African, and the upper part Portuguese.

Funk - is an American melodic style that started in the mid-to late-1960s when African American performers mixed soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a cadenced, danceable new type of music.

Gangsta rap - is a subgenre of hip-jump music which created during the last part of the 1980s. 'Gangsta' is a minor departure from the spelling of 'hoodlum'. After the ubiquity of Dr. Dre's The Persistent in 1992, gangsta rap turned into the most economically worthwhile subgenre of hip-bounce.

Genge - is a sort of hip jump music that had its starting points in Nairobi, Kenya. The name was instituted and promoted by Kenyan rapper Nonini who got going at Calif Records. A style integrates hip jump, dancehall and customary African music styles. It is generally sung in Sheng(slung),Swahili or neighborhood lingos.

Gnawa - is a combination of African, Berber, and Arabic strict tunes and rhythms. It joins music and aerobatic moving. The music is both a request and a festival of life.

Gospel - is a melodic class portrayed by prevailing vocals (frequently with solid utilization of congruity) referring to verses of a strict sort, especially Christian.

Highlife - is a melodic sort that started in Ghana and spread to Sierra Leone and Nigeria during the 1920s and other West African nations.

Hip-Bounce - is a style of famous music, regularly comprising of a cadenced, rhyming vocal style called rapping (otherwise called emceeing) over sponsorship beats and scratching performed on a turntable by a DJ.

House - is a style of electronic dance music that was created by dance club DJs in Chicago in the right on time to mid-1980s. House music is emphatically affected by components of the last part of the original sound design 1970s soul-and funk-imbued dance music style of disco.

Non mainstream - is a term used to depict types, scenes, subcultures, styles and other social credits in music, described by their freedom from significant business record names and their independent, DIY way to deal with recording and distributing.

Instrumental - An instrumental is, as opposed to a tune, a melodic sythesis or recording without verses or whatever other kind of vocal music; the music is all delivered by instruments.

Isicathamiya - is a cappella singing style that started from the South African Zulus.

Jazz - is a unique American melodic fine art which began around the start of the twentieth 100 years in African American people group in the Southern US out of a conversion of African and European music customs.

Jit - is a style of famous Zimbabwean dance music. It includes a quick beat played on drums and joined by a guitar.

Juju - is a style of Nigerian famous music, got from conventional Yoruba percussion. It developed during the 1920s in metropolitan clubs across the nations. The first jùjú accounts were by Tunde Ruler and Ojoge Daniel from the 1920s.

Kizomba - is one of the most famous sorts of dance and music from Angola. Sung commonly in Portuguese, it is a kind of music with a heartfelt stream blended in with African cadence.

Kwaito - is a music sort that arose in Johannesburg, South Africa in the mid 1990s. It depends on house music beats, however commonly at a more slow rhythm and containing melodic and percussive African examples which are circled, profound basslines and frequently vocals, for the most part male, yelled or recited as opposed to sung or rapped.

Kwela - is a cheerful, frequently pennywhistle based, road music from southern Africa with fun underpinnings. It advanced from the marabi sound and carried South African music to global conspicuousness during the 1950s.

Lingala - Soukous (otherwise called Soukous or Congo, and beforehand as African rumba) is a melodic type that started in the two adjoining nations of Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1930s and mid 1940s

Makossa - is a sort of music which is most famous in metropolitan regions in Cameroon. It is like soukous, with the exception of it incorporates solid bass beat and a noticeable horn segment. It started from a sort of Duala dance called kossa, with critical impacts from jazz, ambasse bey, Latin music, highlife and rumba.

Malouf - a sort of music imported to Tunisia from Andalusia after the Spanish victory in the fifteenth hundred years.

Mapouka - likewise known under the name of Macouka, is a customary dance from the south-east of the Ivory Coast in the space of Dabou, in some cases completed during strict services.

Maringa - is a West African melodic classification. It advanced among the Kru nation of Sierra Leone and Liberia, who utilized Portuguese guitars brought by mariners, consolidating nearby songs and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso.

Marrabenta - is a type of Mozambican dance music. It was created in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, previously Laurenco Marques.

Mazurka - is a Clean society dance in triple meter with an energetic rhythm, containing a weighty emphasize on the third or second beat. It is constantly found to have either a trio, quaver, specked eighth note pair, or standard eighth note pair before two quarter notes.

Mbalax - is the public famous dance music of Senegal. It is a combination of famous dance musics from the West like jazz, soul, Latin, and rock mixed with sabar, the conventional drumming and dance music of Senegal.

Mbaqanga - is a style of South African music with rustic Zulu attaches that keeps on impacting performers overall today

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The album TICHAZOMUONA by Dumisani Abraham “Dumi” Maraire was a pioneering effort to promote mbira music. It is a family effort involving his wife Chengeto Linda “Mai Chi” Nemarundwe and their daughter, Chiwoniso “Chi” Maraire. Maraire was a mbira and marimba player, who taught for many years on the west coast of the United States, and was the moving spirit behind the popularity of Shona music in the USA and more widely. Born in 1944 in Chakohwa Village in Mutambara, Eastern Zimbabwe, Dumi began learning music from family members early. In his late teens, he began to pursue music more seriously; in 1966, Dumi went to the Kwanongoma College of Music in Bulawayo and started to learn instruments like the nyunganyunga mbira and the marimba. The nyunganyunga mbira is a 15-Note kalimba (or lamellophone), named after the community from which it originated; thousands of youths learnt traditional songs on this instrument at Kwanongoma. Before colonialism, the mbira was considered sacred; though vital to Shona culture, its importance in traditional ceremonies suffered during and after colonialism. With the arrival of the settlers, many locals converted to Christianity, where the colonialist missionaries preached that mbira music was connected to evil spirits. The rise of pan-Africanism and patriotism in the postcolonial era brought a more tolerant and respectful stance towards musical instruments like the mbira. At independence in 1980, traditional Zimbabwean music, following heavy Rhodesian censorship, began receiving more airtime on radio and television. After independence, artists like Thomas Mapfumo, Zexie Manatsa, Marshall Munhumumwe, Jonah Sithole, and Robson Banda started performing popular guitar music that replicated the mbira’s sound. Dumi and others, including Ephat Mujuru, Beulah Dyoko, Cosmas Magaya and Stella Chiweshe, played traditional mbira music, sometimes accompanied by the ngoma (drum) and hosho (shakers) as well. Dumi is credited with developing the 1–15 number notation used on the nyunganyunga mbira, and notating the song Chemutengure; this song is used to teach mbira learners the technique of playing the instrument. Dumi was a visiting professor in the University of Washington’s ethnomusicology department from 1968 to 1972. Composing in Shona, he specialised in marimba, singing, dancing and drumming. He taught at The Evergreen State College in Olympia in the 1970s, giving private lessons and touring the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia with several marimba groups he founded. After watching a young Linda Nemarundwe perform one of his mbira arrangements at a 1972 workshop in Zimbabwe, Maraire offered to teach her more, and they worked together for the rest of the conference, playing together at a final performance. Dumi eventually married Mai Chi in 1975, and she joined him in Seattle, where he continued teaching and performing Zimbabwean music, while she earned her BA in Early Childhood Education. In 1982, the family returned to Zimbabwe; Mai Chi worked for the Save the Children Fund, while Dumi developed the ethnomusicology programme at the University of Zimbabwe. During this time, in 1986, they recorded the album TICHAZOMUONA, featuring their 10-year-old daughter Chiwoniso on the title track. The entire recording is a masterpiece of traditional mbira playing, combining the intimate with the spiritual to fashion a genre-defining sound. When you pick up a mbira, you feel you are picking up the history of a part of Africa, a complete way of making music, a whole social system of music and religion and history. As such, it can be confusing as to who is, in fact, playing who. In Dumi’s own words: “When a mbira player plays his instrument, he is not playing it for the world. He is not trying to please people, nor is he performing. What he is doing is conversing with a friend. He teaches his friend what to do, and his friend teaches him what to do... To me, a mbira is a lively instrument. It amazes me when I hear all these different things in my way of playing. This is not because I am playing different patterns without knowing what I am doing, but because, as I give the mbira more, I get more from it. So, in simple terms, I can say that the mbira is always in front, giving the materials to the player, and the player follows behind, emphasising these while at the same time asking for more. What more can one say of such an instrument but that it is a friend indeed?” Indeed, this personal relationship with his instrument led Dumi to credit the Nyunganyunga Mbira separately on the original album cover (even while his daughter’s name, Chiwoniso, was slightly misspelt). Four years later, he was back in Seattle, teaching and earning his doctorate in ethnomusicology at the University of Washington. When Dumi finally returned permanently to Zimbabwe in 1990 to take a position at the University of Zimbabwe, Mai Chi remained in the US, making her home in Portland, Oregon, where she developed her renowned love of cooking into a catering business. Mai Chi was a multi-dimensional musician in her own right - vocalist, marimba player, drummer, dancer - who involved herself deeply with the African music community in the Pacific Northwest, sharing her musicality freely and openly until she died in 1997. Dumi himself died in 1999, having inspired thousands to explore Shona culture by providing a vivid example with his own family. Chiwoniso also passed away in 2013 after an inspirational career of her own. The first-ever release of Nyami Nyami Records was the song Zvichapera by Chi, which she recorded a few weeks before she passed; this song was the reason this label was created. Dumi similarly influenced countless musicians. From his years of residence in the US as a visiting musician, Maraire catalysed a network of Americans playing Zimbabwean music across the United States, focused primarily on the West Coast in Oregon, Washington, and California, with other communities in Colorado and New Mexico. During his years spent teaching in Zimbabwe, many important mbira players crossed Dumisani Maraire’s path, and many musicians inspired by him have worked to perform, teach, and spread Zimbabwean music around the world. Several of Dumi’s surviving children have also gone on to be musicians themselves.

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Popular music Genres

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This is a listing of some of the world's popular music genre and their own definitions.

African People - Music kept to be typical on the nation or cultural group, known to just about all segments of it's society, and rescued usually by verbal tradition.

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Afro jazz - Refers to jazz music which has ended up heavily influenced just by African music. That music took portions of marabi, swing together with American jazz and additionally synthesized this to a unique fusion. The main band to really accomplish that synthesis was that South African group of musicians Jazz Maniacs.

Afro-beat - Is a blend of Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms, fused using African percussion in addition to vocal styles, popularized in Africa inside 1970s.

Afro-Pop : Afropop or Afro Pop is a words sometimes used to consult contemporary African take music. The term fails to refer to a specific trend or sound, nevertheless is used as a standard term to describe Camera popular music.

Apala - Originally produced the Yoruba most people of Nigeria. It can be a percussion-based style that will developed in the missed 1930s, when it was eventually used to wake worshippers after fasting in the Islamic holy 30 days of Ramadan.

Assiko - is a well-known dance from the Southern of Cameroon. This band is usually influenced by a singer followed with a guitar, and then a percussionnist playing this pulsating rhythm with Assiko with sheet metal knives and forks on an empty product.

Batuque - can be a music and move genre from Cape Verde.

Bend Skin color - is a types of urban Cameroonian preferred music. Kouchoum Mbada is the most well-known group associated with the sort.

Benga - Can be a musical genre involving Kenyan popular new music. It evolved relating to the late 1940s along with late 1960s, with Kenya's capital town of Nairobi.

Biguine - is a type of music that came from Martinique in the nineteenth century. By pairing the traditional bele beats with the polka, your black musicians associated with Martinique created a biguine, which consists three distinct designs, the biguine de salon, the biguine de bal along with the biguines de repent.

Bikutsi - is mostly a musical genre with Cameroon. It produced from the traditional brands of the Beti, and Ewondo, people, which live around the location of Yaounde.

Bongo Flava - there are a mix of rap, hiphop, and R&B for beginners but these brands don't do it rights. It's rap, reggae and R&B Tanzanian style: a big shedding pot of preferences, history, culture together with identity.

Cadence -- is a particular number of intervals or chords that ends some sort of phrase, section, and also piece of music.

Calypso - is a form of Afro-Caribbean music which often originated in Trinidad with about the start of the twentieth century. The beginnings of the genre set in the arrival from African slaves, that, not being permitted to speak with each other, conveyed through song.

Chaabi - is a famous music of Morocco, very similar to the Algerian Rai.

Chimurenga : is a Zimbabwean widely used music genre coined by and popularised by Thomas Mapfumo. Chimurenga is a Shona language word with regard to struggle.

Chouval Bwa - features percussion, bamboo flute, accordion, and wax-paper/comb-type kazoo. The music has come from among rural Martinicans.

Christian Rap -- is a form of rep which uses Religious themes to express that songwriter's faith.

Coladeira - is a version of music in Cape Verde. Its issue ascends to funacola which is a mixture of funanáa and coladera. Well-known coladera musicians comes with Antoninho Travadinha.

Current Christian - can be described as genre of well-known music which is lyrically focused on matters occupied with the Christian confidence.

Country - is often a blend of popular musical technology forms originally obtained in the Southern Nation and the Appalachian Mountain tops. It has roots within traditional folk audio, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time popular music and evolved immediately in the 1920s.

Move Hall - can be a type of Jamaican preferred music which engineered in the late 1970s, with exponents which include Yellowman and Shabba Ranks. It is also termed bashment. The form is characterized by some deejay singing and additionally toasting (or rapping) over raw in addition to danceable music riddims.

Disco - is mostly a genre of dance-oriented pop music that's popularized in show up clubs in the mid-1970s.

Folk - with the most basic sense in the term, is new music by and for any common people.

Freestyle - is a type of electronic music that's heavily influenced as a result of Latin American traditions.

Fuji - can be described as popular Nigerian play genre. It came into being from the improvisation Ajisari/were music tradition, the industry kind of Muslim beats performed to wake up believers before start during the Ramadan going on a fast season.

Funana : is a mixed Colonial and African audio and dance because of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is said that the reduced part of the body move is African, and also the upper part Colonial.

Funk - can be an American musical fashion that originated in this mid- to late-1960s when African American artists blended soul popular music, soul jazz along with R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new variety of music.

Gangsta gangster rap - is a subgenre of hip-hop new music which developed through the late 1980s. 'Gangsta' is a variation relating to the spelling of 'gangster'. After the popularity with Dr . Dre's Your Chronic in 1992, gangsta rap grew to be the most commercially financially rewarding subgenre of hip-hop.

Genge - is often a genre of rap music that possessed its beginnings around Nairobi, Kenya. A name was coined and popularized simply by Kenyan rapper Nonini who started off for Calif Records. This is the style that comes with hip hop, dancehall together with traditional African beats styles. It is regularly sung in Sheng(slung), Swahili or nearby dialects.

Gnawa -- is a mixture of Africa, Berber, and Persia religious songs and additionally rhythms. It unites music and acrobatic dancing. The audio is both your prayer and a gathering of life.

Gospel - is a music genre characterized by prominent vocals (often by means of strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of an religious nature, really Christian.

Highlife : is a musical category that originated in Ghana and spread to help Sierra Leone in addition to Nigeria in the 1920s and other West Photography equipment countries.

Hip-Hop -- is a style of famous music, typically including a rhythmic, rhyming vocal style termed rapping (also identified as emceeing) over backing up beats and uncovering performed on a turntable by a DJ.

Property - is a type electronic dance popular music that was developed by creep club DJs inside Chicago in the ahead of time to mid-1980s. Dwelling music is highly influenced by aspects the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music variety of disco.

Indie : is a term useful to describe genres, views, subcultures, styles and also other cultural attributes with music, characterized by ones own independence from serious commercial record product labels and their autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to taking and publishing.

A key component - An a key component is, in contrast to a good song, a audio composition or producing without lyrics or even any other sort of oral music; all of the new music is produced by musical technology instruments.

Isicathamiya -- is an a cappella singing style which originated from the Southern area African Zulus.

Jazz - is an primary American musical talent which originated in the beginning of the 20th millennium in African American towns in the Southern United states of america out of a confluence of African along with European music cultures.

Jit - can be a style of popular Zimbabwean dance music. The idea features a swift habit played on percussion and accompanied by a nylon string guitar.

Juju - is mostly a style of Nigerian widely used music, derived from standard Yoruba percussion. That evolved in the 1920s in urban irons across the countries. The pioneer jùjú recordings have been by Tunde Queen and Ojoge Daniel from the 1920s.

Kizomba - is one of the most favored genres of transfer and music coming from Angola. Sung typically in Portuguese, it can be a genre of beats with a romantic move mixed with African tempo.

Kwaito - can be described as music genre this emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa within the early 1990s. It can be based on house audio beats, but generally at a slower beat and containing melodic and percussive Cameras samples which are looped, deep basslines and frequently vocals, generally men, shouted or chanted rather than sung or simply rapped.

Kwela : is a happy, quite often pennywhistle based, streets music from northern Africa with jazzy underpinnings. It improved from the marabi tone and brought Towards the south African music to help you international prominence inside the 1950s.

Lingala -- Soukous (also named Soukous or Congo, and previously since African rumba) is often a musical genre of which originated in the two adjoining countries of Belgian Congo and The language Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s

Makossa - can be a type of music that's most popular in cities in Cameroon. It's similar to soukous, with the exception it includes strong bass sound rhythm and a well known horn section. The application originated from a type of Duala dance called kossa, with significant has impact on from jazz, ambasse bey, Latin popular music, highlife and rumba.

Malouf - an music imported so that you can Tunisia from Andalusia after the Spanish conquest in the 15th one hundred year.

Mapouka - additionally known under the identity of Macouka, is mostly a traditional dance in the south-east of the Pale yellow Coast in the area involving Dabou, sometimes implemented during religious events.

Maringa - can be described as West African play genre. It advanced among the Kru persons of Sierra Leone and Liberia, whom used Portuguese instruments brought by ocean adventurers, combining local songs and rhythms along with Trinidadian calypso.

Marrabenta - is a model of Mozambican dance new music. It was developed within Maputo, the capital area of Mozambique, earlier known as Laurenco Marques.

Mazurka - is a Gloss folk dance around triple meter which includes a lively tempo, that contain a heavy accent in the third or minute beat. It is always seen to have either a triplet, trill, dotted 8th note pair, and ordinary eighth take note pair before a few quarter notes.

Mbalax - is the domestic popular dance beats of Senegal. Sanctioned fusion of well-known dance musics with the West such as jazz, soul, Latin, together with rock blended by using sabar, the traditional drumming and dance audio of Senegal.

Mbaqanga - is a type of South African popular music with rural Zulu roots that is constantly on the influence musicians around the globe today. The type was originated in earlier 1960s.

Mbube : is a form of To the south African vocal new music, made famous by way of the South African set Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The word mbube suggests "lion" in Zulu

Merengue - is often a type of lively, pleased music and move that comes from your Dominican Republic

Morna - is a type of Cape Verdean music, related to Colonial fado, Brazilian modinha, Argentinian tango, and additionally Angolan lament.

Museve - is a preferred Zimbabwe music variety. Artists include Simon Chimbetu and Alick Macheso

Oldies -- term commonly used to explain a radio framework that usually concentrates on Prime 40 music through the '50s, '60s in addition to '70s. Oldies can even be from R&B, soda and rock beats genres.

Pop : is an ample along with imprecise category of current music not classified by artistic issues to consider but by her potential audience and also prospective market.

Quadrille - is a old dance performed by way of four couples within a square formation, some sort of precursor to classic square dancing. It is additionally a style of audio.

R&B - can be a popular music sort combining jazz, gospel, and blues impacts, first performed just by African American artists.

Rai - is a version of folk music, started in Oran, Algeria out of Bedouin shepherds, blended with Spanish, French, Camera and Arabic music forms, which goes back to the 1930s and has now been primarily grown by women inside culture.

Ragga -- is a sub-genre associated with dancehall music or even reggae, in which the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic digital music; sampling regularly serves a leading role in raggamuffin music as well.

Rep - is the rhythmic singing delivery from rhymes and wordplay, one of the elements of hiphop music and lifestyle.

Rara - is mostly a form of festival popular music used for street processions, typically during Easter Week.

Reggae : is a music category first developed inside Jamaica in the tardy 1960s. A particular new music style that all began following on the progress of ska together with rocksteady. Reggae is dependent on a rhythm trend characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, called the skank.

Reggaeton - is a type of urban music which unfortunately became popular with Latina American youth over the early 1990s. While it began with Panama, Reggaeton combines Jamaican music showing of reggae and additionally dancehall with people of Latin The united states, such as bomba, plena, merengue, and bachata as well as that of reggae and Electronica.

Small gravel - is a variety of popular music which has a prominent vocal beat accompanied by guitar, percussion, and bass. Several styles of rock beats also use keys instruments such as body, piano, synthesizers.

Rumba - is a category of music rhythms in addition to dance styles that will originated in Africa along with were introduced to be able to Cuba and the " new world " by African slaves.

Salegy - can be described as popular type of Afropop styles exported with Madagascar. This Sub-Saharan African folk audio dance originated along with the Malagasy language with Madagascar, Southern Photography equipment.

Salsa - is often a diverse and mainly Spanish Caribbean type that is popular all over Latin America together with among Latinos in foreign countries.

Samba - is among the most most popular forms of popular music in Brazil. It happens to be widely viewed as Brazil's national musical form.

Sega - is really an evolved combination of conventional Music of Seychelles, Mauritian and Réunionnais music with Western european dance music enjoy polka and quadrilles.

Seggae - can be a music genre devised in the mid 1980s by the Mauritian Rasta singer, Joseph Reginald Topize who was from time to time known as Kaya, after having a song title as a result of Bob Marley. Seggae is a fusion involving sega from the tropical island country, Mauritius, and additionally reggae.

Semba -- is a traditional version of music from the Southern-African country of Angola. Semba is the precursor to a variety of new music styles originated from Cameras, of which three of the very famous are Samba (from Brazil), Kizomba (Angolan style of beats derived directly because of Zouk music) in addition to Kuduro (or Kuduru, energetic, fast-paced Angolan Techno music, to speak).

Shona New music - is the audio of the Shona families of Zimbabwe. There are plenty of different types of traditional Shona music including mbira, singing, hosho along with drumming. Very often, the following music will be in conjunction with dancing, and response by the audience.

Ska - is a popular music genre that arose in Jamaica in the later part of the 1950s and has been a precursor to help rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined factors of Caribbean mento together with calypso with North american jazz and cycle and blues.

Impede Jam - is normally a song with the R&B-influenced melody. Poor jams are commonly R&B ballads or just downtempo songs. The term is usually most commonly reserved meant for soft-sounding songs using heavily emotional or simply romantic lyrical subject material.

Soca - is mostly a form of dance new music that originated in Trinidad from calypso. This combines the melodic lilting sound associated with calypso with insistent (usually electronic with recent music) percussion.

Soukous - can be described as musical genre which originated in the two adjoining countries of Belgian Congo and The french language Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has accomplished popularity throughout The african continent.

Soul - is often a music genre this combines rhythm and additionally blues and gospel music, originating in the country.

Taarab - can be a music genre famous in Tanzania. It truly is influenced by beats from the cultures using a historical presence within East Africa, which include music from Eastern Asia, Sub-Saharan Photography equipment, North Africa, the center East and The eu. Taarab rose to help you prominence in 1928 with the rise with the genre's first legend, Siti binti Saad.

Tango - is mostly a style of music of which originated among Eu immigrant populations from Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played out by a sextet, termed the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, in addition to two bandoneons.

Waka - is a widely used Islamic-oriented Yoruba audio genre. It was pioneered and made well-known by Alhaja Batile Alake from Ijebu, who took a genre into the well-known Nigerian music simply by playing it in concerts and people; also, she had been the first waka performer to record a great album.

Wassoulou : is a genre with West African preferred music, named following your region of Wassoulou. It is performed primarily by women, applying lyrics that home address women's issues concerning childbearing, fertility along with polygamy.

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Analog Africa No.1 - THE GREEN ARROWS, 4-Track Recording Session Tracks 1 to 10; Part One (1974-75) Chipo Chiroorwa LP. Track 11 to 20; Part Two (1976-79) Waka Waka Selection. All tracks originally recorded and released in Zimbabwe. Undoubtedly the most important musical act to emerge from Zimbabwe in the 1970s, the Green Arrows transmuted the widespread social upheaval of their homeland into hopeful, rhythmic, political, experimental music. This extraordinarily progressive group took the country by storm, fusing the different rhythms of the region into one unique and ebullient sound. The Green Arrows were the first Zimbabwean band to record an LP (released in February 1976) - a milestone in Zimbabwean music history. Also their song 'Musango Mune Hangaiwa' still holds the record for the longest stay at number1 in the Zimbabwean charts (4 months).

At the start of the 1970s the Green Arrows were merely the best bar band in all of Zimbabwe. By decade's end, they had achieved a level of fame previously unheard of in the country. The band's mercurial bassist and lead singer, Zexie Manatsa, became the patriarch of a flourishing musical scene in Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia. When he got married in 1979, an estimated 60,000 guests showed up for the wedding, held in Rufaro Stadium in Harare, with Oliver Mtukudzi and Thomas Mapfumo amongst the performers.

https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/4-track-recording-session

The Green Arrows, discovered by South African producer West Nkosi, had become the tightest, funkiest band around. The music was branded ‘wha wha (= beer) music’ as it got people to consume vast amounts of beer. The Arrows’ unique sound managed to be intensely danceable and catchy, yet breezy and laid-back at the same time. Guitar riffs sparkle like stars throughout each of these three-minute-long compositions. The rhythm section is flawless and the mellow, stoned vocals perfectly convey the band's overarching message: ‘Forget your troubles for a little while and dance with your fellow human beings - something great might come of it’. This is music to get lost inside, hypnotic and gently percussive, utterly irresistible and addictive. The twenty tracks on this CD, collected here by Analog Africa’s Samy Ben Redjeb and all painstakingly re-mastered, vividly illustrate the Arrows' rise to greatness. Divided into two parts, the first of which is culled from the Chipo Chiroorwa LP (1974) and features material from 1974 and 1975, and the second of which, called Waka Waka Selection combines singles recorded between 1976 and 1979. The accompanying 24-page booklet (edited by renowned critic Banning Eyre) frames the music in the proper historical context, with a full detailed discography and numerous rare photographs. 'A treasure.' - BBC Music Online 'Contagiously danceable CD' - The Independent on Sunday 'Terrific low-fidelity recordings ... dance grooves that set the stage for the future of southern African pop. - Chicago Tribune 'Timeless stuff. - Downbeat **** 'All modern popular music in Zimbabwe owes a certain debt to the first Zimbabwean group to record an LP there, and so this first edition in Analog Africa’s series is particularly timely.' - AllAboutJazz 'Lost ‘70s Zimbabwean Afro-rock that’ll make you grin. Guitarist Stanley Manatsa’s wah-wah is just plain nasty.' - Spin **** 'A model compilation with excellent notes that put the music in context and even convey the personalities of the artists.' - Afropop Worldwide 'A treasure trove of melody, a crucial, lovingly assembled look back at one of the more fascinating and somewhat forgotten groups in African history.' - Global Rhythm créditsparu le 30 mars 2007 Bass, Lead Vocals - Zexie Manatsa Lead Guitar - Stanley Manatsa Rhythm Guitar - Fulton Chikwati Bass, Rhythm Guitar - Givas Bernard Drums - Raphael Mboweni Guest Vocals - Wilfred Nyomi Original recordings licensed from Gallo Record Company All songs published by Gallo Music Publishers All tracks produced by West Nkosi for Mavuthela Music Division Mastering by Peter Pearson

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Thor Harris & Joyful Noise Players - Is Adam OK? - he chose an appropriate band name for this album of collaborative minimalism

When musicians are working on a “song” or a specific “piece”, they are using a certain part of their conscious brains. But before the super narcissistic band leader shows up and takes the reins, they will often hang out making stream-of-consciousnesses music that is often more interesting than the conscripted “songs”. In many cases “songs” are what keep musicians from doing their best work. These scraps of music that get lost forever in practice rooms are often more like the artist or bored receptionist’s doodles. Purely subconscious spelunkery. The Necks, Ornette Coleman, Jackson Pollock, Negativland, David Lynch and William Burroughs certainly knew the subconscious is where the real wisdom lives. Let the animal in you rule. It has no pretense. It hates your job. It uses repetition only to get high. Interesting things happen when a musician is playing out of her comfort zone. This can be achieved by playing an instrument that you don’t usually play or by playing out of your usual genre. If you hand a guy an electric guitar and he grew up on rock and roll, the outcome is somewhat predictable at this point, mimicry of 50 years of rock and blues players. This is why virtuosos are boring to watch after a few minutes of amazement. I cannot count the number of times I’ve been asked to “play dumber” when recording drum tracks. I spent much of my youth learning hot drum licks, then my early 20s learning not to ever do them. As I facilitated these recordings I steered these amazing players away from the tired tropes of rock and roll. On “Is Adam OK?” I sat at the piano prepared with sweaters across the strings. Virtuoso, multi-instrumentalist, super-freak Greg Saunier sat beside me at the piano and off into the abyss we wandered for 22 minutes. As the brilliant players of Joyful Noise showed up at Postal Recording on a frozen December day, we gave them little instruction. Their inner animals knew just what to do. There is no such thing as a mistake in this kind of “composition”. This is not the path for control freaks. On “Grief Comes in Waves”, Andy Stack, Monk Parker and I played layer upon layer of sax and clarinet in 7 minute slabs. We added some other bits and bobs, then sent them to others to have their way with them. Jad Fair, Ohmme, and Adam added things I never would have thought of. Hearing them again was like opening birthday presents. Magic. I started “Kindest Regards Mr Mapfumo” hoping for a Steve Reich kind of 12/8 piece, but ended up with a Thomas Mapfumo kind of 12/8. A pleasant misstep. The driving instrument is an electric tongue drum that I built. I will soon put instructions for building one yourself on Instagram. I ran it thru an Old Blood chorus/delay/distortion pedal. None of the contributors were given any instructions. The parts they came up with are beyond my weirdest hallucinations. This approach relies on trust. I have always had a knack for finding the brilliant people and forcing friendship upon them. - Thor Harris 

Thor Harris Sarah “Goat” Gautier Greg Saunier Jad Fair Andy Stack Jasamine White-Gluz Kid Millions Sima Cunningham Macie Stewart Marina Tadic Adam Harding Daniel Smith C.J. Boyd Monk Parker Art by Thor