South African Music Archive Project
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- Composer: Mushabatu Bakasa (Performer)Composer not specified | Folk song, Indigenous music, Mbira, Mushabata Bakasa, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Vocal, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0381
- Composer: Mushabatu Bakasa (Performer)Composer not specified | Folk song, Indigenous music, Mbira, Mushabata Bakasa, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Vocal, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0381
- Composer: Chopi players (Performer) | Chopi, Chopi, Dance music, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, South Africa, Southern African, Timbila, Transvaal, Whistle, Xylophone, ILAM | Chibudu movement of a dance, accompanied by xylophones and whistles. Refer ILAM field card H1H9
- Composer: Asunga Okwela (Performer)Onge Maina (Performer)Composer not specified | Dance song, Dho Luo, East African, Iron, Kenya, Kisumu, Luo, Maina,Onge, Nyangile dance, Nyangile sound box, Okwela,Asunga, Town dance, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D4G 7
- Composer: F.H. Simon Amollo (Performer)Ibrahim Abonyo (Performer)Composer not specified | Dho Luo, East African, F.H. Simon Amollo, Guitar, Ibrahim Abonyo, Kenya, Luo, Mandoline, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0223
- Artist(s): Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony with Kipsigis men | Composer: (Performer)Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony (Composer) | Bowl lyre, Chepkongo bowl lyre, Chepkwony,Kepkoske Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kapsabet Kenya Nandi district, Kericho, Kipsigis, Kipsigis district, Praise song, Vocal, ILAM | A praise song with a Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The player flips the bridge of the lyre with a finger tip as he plays. The 'Hey - nonny - nonny' words of the song are " Ho - Jambo Bwana". "How do you do, Master."This was impromptu refering to the recorder of the item. The remainder of the lyric mentions places of mutual interst and affection in the minds of the audience.Both Kipsigis and Nandi are noted for their patriotism, their love of country as such, which they frequently express in song. This is comparitively rare with Bantu people who do not, as a rule, praise the beauty of the countryside and are mostly insensitive to scenery.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 2
- Composer: Asunga Okwela (Performer)Onge Maina (Performer)Composer not specified | Dance song, Dho Luo, East African, Iron, Kenya, Kisumu, Luo, Maina,Onge, Nyangile dance, Nyangile sound box, Okwela,Asunga, Town dance, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D4G 8
- Artist(s): Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony with Kipsigis men | Bowl lyre, Chepkongo bowl lyre, Chepkwony,Kepkoske Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Praise song, Vocal, ILAM | A praise song with a Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The player flips the bridge of the lyre with a finger tip as he plays. The song is largely a repetition by the chorus of the words "olei yo lalei yo" a kind of "Hey - nonny - nonny."The singer also brings into his song the names of many places he has visited and likes in common with his audience.Both Kipsigis and Nandi are noted for their patriotism, their love of country as such, which they frequently express in song. This is comparitively rare with Bantu people who do not, as a rule, praise the beauty of the countryside and are mostly insensitive to scenery. Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 1
- Artist(s): Kipkemo (Performer)Kipkemo Arap Sitonik (Performer) | Composer: Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony (Performer)Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony (Composer) | Bowl lyre, Chepkongo bowl lyre, Chepkwony,Kepkoske Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Praise song, Sitonik,Kipkemo Arap, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6L 2
- Artist(s): Kinutit Arap Ngasura | East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kericho, Kibugandet lyre, Kipsigis, Kipsigis district, Ngasura, Kinutit Arap, Praise song, ILAM | A praise song with Kibugandet 5 string wish bone lyre, resonated on a parafin tin. The solo singer, singing in falsetto, praises his country and many of its desirable places. He mentions, among others, the Administrative centre at Kericho, some 25 miles away, which he says is 'full of words', referring to the information service supplied to the country by the office of the District Commissioner. This wishbone shaped frame lyre is help onto the top of an empty 4 gallon parafin tin. At the end of his song the lyre slipped off its resonator.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 4
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