South African Music Archive Project
Kenya
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- Artist(s): Kipsigis men and women (Performer) | Composer: Teituk Arap Sumeiyot (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/15 | Chemelil dance, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, One whistle, Sumeiyot,Teituk Arap, ILAM | Chemelil dance song for men and women. Further details refer ILAM field card number D6L-14.
- Artist(s): Kipsigis Men | Composer: Teituk Arap Sumeiyoi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Chemelil dance, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Sumeiyot,Teituk Arap, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2146.
- Artist(s): Kipsigis girls | Composer: Chemutoi Ketienya (Performer and Composer) | 1950/09/15 | East African, Humorous, Kenya, Kericho, Ketienya,Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L22a.
- Composer: Charondet Arap Ng'asuraKipsigi men | 1950/09/15 | East African, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Ng'asura,Charondet Arap, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song about the mystical singer, Chemirocha, accompanied by the 6 string Chepkong bowl lyre. Refer ILAM field card D6L19
- Artist(s): Cheriro Arap Korogorem | Composer: Bekyibei Arap Mosonik (Performer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo lyre, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Korogorem,Cheriro Arap, Mosonik,Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L6.
- Composer: Bekyibei Arap Mosonik (Performer)Cheriro Arap Korogorem (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Korogorem,Cheriro Arap, laced., Mosonik,Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D6L-6.
- Artist(s): Cherwo Arap KorogoremBekyibei Arap Mosonick | 1950/09/15 | Bowl lyre, Chepkongo bowl lyre, Cheriro Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Kipsigis district, Korogorem, Mosonik, Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, Vocal, ILAM | Praise song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The main theme of this song is affection for the Kipsigis country. He also asks 'why the whitemen should have taken over the country' which incidentally they themselves took from others in the past. He comes, he says, from the Sotik nearby. The name 'Chemirocha' is their pronunciation of 'Jimmy Rodgers' whose gramophone records were the first to be heard in the district. It is now synonomous for anything strange or new. Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 6
- Artist(s): Charondet Arap Ng'asura and Kipsigis men | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo bowl lyre, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Ng'asura, Charondet Arap, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. Chemirocha the mystical singer, (based on Jimmy Rodgers, the American guitarist) is at Kericho, they say. 'Why'. He is said to have visited a friend of his at Ituna! The similarity of the two instruments, the guitar and the local lyre has given rise to the legend of this wandering player whose records have been heard, but whose presence is a mystery. The young men having sung this version of Chemirocha said that it was really their sisters' song, but they were too shy to sing it. Eventually the girls were persuaded to sing and gave us the next version.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 19
- Artist(s): Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo bowl lyre, East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Kenya, Ketienya, Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Song, ILAM | A humorous song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The mysterious singer and dancer, Chemirocha has been turned into a local god Pan with the feet of an antelope, half beast, half man. He is urged by the girls to do the leaping dance familiar to all Kipsigis so energetically that he will jump clear out of his clothes. The name Chemirocha is based upon the guitarist Jimmy Rodgers.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 22
- Composer: Jimmy Rogers (Composer)Chemutoi Ketienya (Performer) | 1952-00-00 | Chepkongo lyre, East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Jimmy Rogers, Kapkatet, Kenya, Ketienya,Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Song, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2121.
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