Ndinochema amasebe

Title: Ndinochema amasebe
Performer / Recordist: Sitole, Simon Mafiru; Composer not specified; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Topical song; Mbira; Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda
Description / content note: "See, I am crying, mother-in-law. Poverty, elder brother, alack. See, Sophiatown is bad, patisoni. In my distress I think of home. Happiness to you all at Marange." The singer sings about the conditions in which he finds himself at Sofiatown, near Johannesburg, where he works as a carpenter's assistant. His home, Marange is in the Chipinga District of Southern Rhodesia, about 400 miles north east of Johannesburg. Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Ndau
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR003; 10
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/10962/132046