South African Music Archive Project
Northern Congo
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- Artist(s): Zande men | Composer: Mula Pala Kpeli (Performer)Chief Gatanga Mongonika (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/09/02 | Central African, Chief Gatanga Mongonika, Clapping, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indingenous music, Mula Pala Kpeli, Nguru, Northern Congo, Topical song, Vertical angular harp, Zande, Zande, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number F4W-1.
- Artist(s): Two other players, with dancers | Composer: Composer not specified Nakule (Performer) | 1952/08/31 | Bandiya, Chief Gatanga, Folk - Central African, Kponingbo xylophone, Nakule, Nguru, Northern Congo, Zande, ILAM | A Zande dance with Kponingbo xylophone (log zylophone with keys on banana stems. The tuning corresponds in absolute pitch with that of harp strings). "Sungi kumba wa sa gasi li Sungi akumba ai gibolo. It is a bad housewife who does not work for a husband. A woman who can't work is no good at all." These loose note xylophones are played by three and sometimes four men sitting on either side of the instrument. The Zande dance is performed in a circle to the cheerful sound of the xylophone. All the dancers move in unison with small steps in a set pattern which ensures that the circle moves around gradually in an anti-clockwise direction. A characteristic gesture by Zande dancers is the holding out of hands, palms upwards, gently raising and lowering the forearms in time with the music.
- Composer: Safare Dewu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/07/27 | Balendu, Bonguma harp, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djugu, Eastern Congo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Northern Congo, Republic of the Congo, Safare Dewu, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4C 3
- Artist(s): Hugh Tracey (Narrator) | 1955/03/15 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indigenous music, Mbira, Northern Congo, Tracey, Hugh, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record no. AC1317.
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator)Zande Man (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Buta, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lingala, Northern Congo, Tracey, Hugh, Zande, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC50.
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator) | 1900-01-00 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lingala, Northern Congo, Story Song, Tracey, Hugh, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC37.
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator)Ombiza Charles (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Guitar, Indigenous music, Lingala, Northern Congo, Ombiza,Charles, Tracey, Hugh, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC37.
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator)W. H. Ford (Narrator) | 1900-01-00 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Discussion on drum messages in the Congo., Drum, Ford,W.H., Lingala, Northern Congo, Tracey, Hugh, Yakusu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC37.
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator)Congolese Men and Women (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Central African, Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lingala, Northern Congo, Tracey, Hugh, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC37.
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator)Ndolomu Muphamu (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Muphamu,Ndolomu, Northern Congo, Spontaneous Party song, Tracey, Hugh, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC60.
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