Diya Kilango

Title: Diya Kilango
Performer / Recordist: Zegive and Mvu people; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Bangba (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This tribe, like many of the non-Bantu tribes in this North East part of the Congo are very simple people indeed. The country has still few roads and the carrying of officials and others whose work takes into remote parts is still common. The chair or mashila which they carry is locally called Tipoyi. Work song (carrying Sedan chair), with harp, likembe, bells and basket rattle.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Mvuba
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0119; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:26
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/10962/166624