Gari yangu

Title: Gari yangu
Performer / Recordist: Jaji Simba with Giryama men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Giryama (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "My love has left me and I am sad. But it does not matter for she stayed with me for a long time, and I thank her for her kind heart." The Msego dance when performed by experts, either young people or children, is among the most attractive in East Africa. Msego dance song for men and women with Kayamba raft rattles.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Giryama
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Kaloleni
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR162; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:53
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/10962/176563