Kamulo korgochei

Title: Kamulo korgochei
Performer / Recordist: Chebitet Arap Muina; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Kipsigis (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The singer like most Kipsigis, hisses in between verses. He mocks the uncircumcised and people who do not drink milk the pastoral Kipsigis. He urges everyone to play the Ketuba lyre a fit and manly instrument for the circumcised. The tuning of his instrument is as follows:- 184, 162, 138, 120, 240, 212, 184, 162 vs. Arap Towett was the name of the Kipsigis interpreter who translated all his peoples songs for us. Topical song, Ketuba 8 string bowl lyre, laced. (-10.621 x 8-).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Kipsigis
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Sotik
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR165; 16
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:44
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/10962/177712