Matsaire

Title: Matsaire
Performer / Recordist: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez,Gomez, F; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Topical song; Guitar music
Description / content note: Feliciano's pronunciation of Ndau words, they say, is like a child's speech. "matsaire, you have finished all the people." Matsaire was killed in a certain village, and his ghost came back demanding recompense, under pain of death to all the village. One of three topical songs with guitar.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Ndau
Place of recording: Africa -- Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1955
Date issued / published: 1955
Identifier: TR003; 6
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:50
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131997