Burai

Title: Burai
Performer / Recordist: Teituk Arap Sumiyot; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Kipsigis (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This song, it was claimed, was composed by the singer when he was an askari in the Kings African Rifles. He urges everyone to cheer up for as soon as the war is over they will be going home again. It is sung in a mixture of Kipsigis and Swahili. He plays an attractive little melody on the Kibungandet as accompaniment. Topical song, with Kibungandet 5 string lyre.
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; 18
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/10962/177730