Odhiambo Odet

Title: Odhiambo Odet
Performer / Recordist: Ogalo Mirasi; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk music--Kenya; Luo (Kenya and Tanzanian people); Field recordings
Description / content note: Odhiambo is a wonderful person with eyes so bright he could even see to write in the desk. When he was named as a child all the birds and beasts came round to see this remarkable babe. The box is struck with the iron and the iron is sounded with an iron nail or small bolt. Praise song, with Orotu one string lute sound box (-12.16-) ans iron (-12.151-).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Luo
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Kisumu
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR168; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:24
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/10962/178703