Maria Mbombwe

Title: Maria Mbombwe
Performer / Recordist: Luba women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Luba (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: These gourds are peculiar to this tribe. The performer vibrates her lips in the mouth of the gourd (as if playing a trumpet) thus producing the resonant note of the gourd. At the same time she pats the side of the gourd rhythmically with one hand or with a piece of stick or metal. The two gourds and rhythm appears to be:- //1, ; 3, 4, ; 6, 7, ,//. Funeral song with two singing gourd.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Luba
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR177; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:33
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/10962/181921