Ambiga

Title: Ambiga
Performer / Recordist: Mudumbu; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Songs, Swahili; Bira (African people); Swahili-speaking peoples; Pygmies; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The singer's face resembled a West African mask with extremely slanting eyes. He sang with his Mbira pressed against the side of his face giving a strange impression of a spirit out of the forest. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Bira
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0126; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:43
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/10962/168425