Boyoka Malinga

Title: Boyoka Malinga
Performer / Recordist: Albert Yenie and Alex Singoma; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Songs, Swahili; Bira (African people); Swahili-speaking peoples; Pygmies; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This tune is also an attempt to transpose a popular guitar tune well known in Southern Congo and elsewhere onto the Likembe (Mbira) of the district or vice versa. This is made possible by the fact that locally the Bira tribe uses a heptatonic scale. Duet on the Likembe, (Mbira) - Sanzo apido (treble) x 20 notes, and Sanzo ababo (bass) x 22 notes.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Bira
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bunia
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0126; 12
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:45
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/10962/168458