Talatany chebwomut

Artist(s): 
Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls
Date: 
1950/09/15
Format: 
78 RPM shellac record
Source: 
Shellac record number: TP2082
Publisher: 
International Library of African Music
Rights: 
International Library of African Music
Identifier (greenstone export db): 
5771
Identifier (original): 
TP2082-XYZ5533b
Identifier (disa): 
mus1950-09-15.036.018.TP2082-XYZ5533b
Keywords: 
Description: 

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 22b.