Mailo nkaya (Tomorrow I'll be going)

Title: Mailo nkaya (Tomorrow I'll be going)
Performer / Recordist: Edmond Cileshe and 4 friends; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia); Folk songs, Bemba; Drinking songs
Description / content note: A certain man was divorcing his wife because she was too talkative. "Before I go away, he sings, I will beat you because you are as stupid as your father." Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Mupukumo drinking song with Mumamba mbira bell.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: bemba
Place of recording: Africa -- Zambia Kasama
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR0024; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:52
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/10962/135315