South African Music Archive Project
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- Artist(s): Daudi Otuoma (Performer) | Composer: Daudi Otuoma (Performer) | chief, Daudi Otuoma, Dholuo, East African, Gara leg bells, Kenya, praise, Song, Thum eight string lyre, traditional, ILAM | Praise song for a chief, accompanied by rattles and a lyre. Refer ILAM field card number D6J1
- chant, Metal instrument, rattles, Solo singing, Song, traditional, ILAM | Song accompanied by rattles. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Artist(s): Nyamwam Kingari (Leader) | Composer: Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | Clapping, Drinking song, East African, Folk music, Gusii, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisii, Kisii Government School choir, Nyamwam Kingari, Nyanza, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6I-7
- Artist(s): Walter Arum (Leader) | Composer: Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | Arum,Walter, Dho Luo, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisii, Kisii Government School choir, Luo, Nyanza, Topical song, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6I-5
- Artist(s): Machoka Singombe (Leader) | Composer: Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | Drinking song, East African, Folk music, Gusii, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisii Government School choir, Machoka Singombe, Nyanza, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6I-6
- Artist(s): Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Leader Walter Arumi (Performer) | Composer: Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Leader Walter Arumi (Performer) | Arum,Walter, Dholuo, East African, Kenya, Kisii Government School choir, Lament, Part-singing, Song, traditional, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Unaccompanied lament composed by a mother for her dead daughter. Refer ILAM field card number D6I4
- Artist(s): Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Leader Walter Arumi (Performer) | Composer: Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Leader Walter Arumi (Performer) | Arum,Walter, Dholuo, East African, Kenya, Kisii Government School choir, message, Part-singing, Rabbit, Song, topical, Unaccompanied, ILAM | School song about a rabbit who failed to deliver a message to a woman's lover. Refer ILAM field card D6I2
- Artist(s): Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Leader Charles Mboya (Performer) | Composer: Kisii Government School Choir (Performer)Leader Charles Mboya (Performer) | Dholuo, East African, Kenya, Kisii Government School choir, Mboya,Charles, Part-singing, Song, topical, traditional, Unaccompanied, ILAM | The song is about a simple minded women who does not have any children of her own. Refer ILAM field card D6I3
- Artist(s): Shabani Abdullah Mwankema (Leader) | Composer: Dar es Salaam Jazz Band (Performer) | Band music, Dance music, Dar-es-Salaam Jazz Band, East African, Jazz, Nguja, Rumba, Shabani Abdullah, Shabani Abdullah Mwankemwa, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tukuyu, ILAM | Swahili Rumba with various instruments (guitars, kazoos, trumpet, drums, rattles, violin, clarinet, ukelele, banjo, sticks). Composer unknown. Translated English title - "What keeps you here?" Further details refer ILAM field card (D3D6)
- Artist(s): Leader Benjamin Otieno (Performer) | Composer: Odonde Obat (Performer) | Dholuo, East African, Gara leg rattles, Kenya, Odonde Obat, Oduong toe ring, Otieno,Benjamin, praise, Song, Thum eight string lyre, ILAM | Song in which performer praises his ability in music. The song is accompanied by string and percussion instruments. Refer ILAM field card D6H15
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