Mambala II

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Title: Mambala II
Performer / Recordist: Group of Luba women and 3 drummers; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Luba (African people); Ruund (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: A song typical of most funeral songs by Luba women, with a cheerful theme assisted by the strange sound of the singing horns. The three drums were called respectively:- DITUMBA weighted with wax, with a mirliton, (lutanda). GATUMBATUMBA which was neither weighted nor had a mirliton. MUTUMBI weighted with wax but without miriliton. The singing gourds were the usual empty gourds commonly used by Luba women. Funeral dance song, with 3 goblet drums, closed, pinned, with mirliton, and 2 singing gourds
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Lunda; Luba
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubilashi
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR179; 11
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:00
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/10962/182958

Item sets: Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series

Mambala II

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