Mose dzakono panga-pa (Mose come back)

Title: Mose dzakono panga-pa (Mose come back)
Performer / Recordist: M. S. Ngomwa and five Mang'anja boys; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Songs, Nyanja; Nyanja (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Port Herald
Description / content note: A song commonly used by the canoe on the lower Shire river, a large tributary of the Zambezi. It would seem to reflect the common anxiety of fisher folk everywhere, the fear that the boat and its crew may never come back. "Mose, you come back, come back, you return and my spirit will be at rest. If you go again, then you can go because I have seen your face. The sun is already high and you paddle slowly like a duck." Canoe song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyanja; Mang'anja
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR093; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:36
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/10962/158123