South African Music Archive Project
Kenya
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- Composer: Joshua Mzee Adhiembo (Performer and Composer) | 1952/09/28 | Accordion, East African, Eldoret, Joshua Mzee Adhiembo, Kenya, Luo, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number F5B-10.
- Composer: Joshua Mzee Adhiembo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/09/28 | Accordion, Choral music, concertina, Eldoret, Indigenous music, Joshua Mzee Adhiembo, Kenya, Luo, Nangili, Nongili, Olang, Praise song, Southern African, Struck iron, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F5B 10
- Composer: F.H. Simon Amollo (Performer)Ibrahim Abonyo (Performer) | 1950/07/11 | Dho, East African, F.H. Simon Amollo, Guitar, Ibrahim Abonyo, Kenya, Kisumu, Luo, Mandoline, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with guitar and mandoline. Composer unknown. Further details refer ILAM field card (D3V5)
- Composer: F.H. Simon Amollo (Performer)Ibrahim Abonyo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1954-00-00 | Dho Luo, East African, F.H. Simon Amollo, Guitar, Ibrahim Abonyo, Kenya, Luo, Mandoline, Topical song, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0223
- Artist(s): Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony (Performer) | Composer: Kipkemo Arap Sitonik (Performer and Composer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkwony,Kepkoske Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Praise song, Sitonik,Kipkemo Arap, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D6L-3.
- Artist(s): Kipkemo Arap SitonikKepkoske Arap Chepkwony | 1950/09/15 | Bowl lyre, Chepkongo bowl lyre, Chepkwony, Kepkoske Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Kipsigis district, Praise song, Sitonik, Kipkemo Arap, ILAM | A praise song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. This lyre is strummed and fingered like the Bangwe zither of Nyasaland. The right hand strums the strings and the left mutes or opens the 6 strings, making it possible to play two or three chords on the open un-muted strings. The singer mentions by name his home village, places of common interest to his friends. The player flips the body of his lyre on the 2nd and 4th beats. In common with several African verse makers, the singer sings in couplets, repeating the second phrase and making it the first line of the next.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 3
- Composer: Malakwen Chepsaikut (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chepsaikut, East African, Kapsabet, Kenya, Malakwen, Nandi, Nandi district, Praise song, ILAM | Topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre (5 or 6 string pentatonic lyre used by Nandi tribe in Kenya, also known as Kibugantet and Chepkong.) This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe zither of Nyasaland. This gave 2 chords. Notes 1, 3 and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of number 1. The scale was: 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs.
- Composer: Kipkeino Arap Rop (Composer/Performer) | 1950/09/09 | East African, Kenya, Kipukandet, Lyre, Nandi, Nandi, Rop,Kipkeino Arap, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with Kipukandet six string lyre. Further details refer ILAM field card (D6F12)
- Composer: Kipkeino Arap Rop (Performer)Kipkeino Arap Rop (Composer) | 1950/09/09 | East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipukandet lyre, Nandi, Nandi, Rop,Kipkeino Arap, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6F-12
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