Kambula

Title: Kambula
Performer / Recordist: Group of Luvale men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk songs, Chokwe; Chokwe (African people); Luvale (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: Chikele Kele is the alternative name for the Katchatcha mbira. The seven reeds are tuned with paste or wax beneath their tips. The rhythm set by the struck metal is the common southern Congo rhythm. // 1, 2, 3, 1/2, 1, 2, 1/2 // The Katchatcha keeps up a strange chatter of little or no meaning in the background. Katchatcha dance, with Katchatcha mbira with bamboo reeds resonated on top of metal petrol drum and struck metal
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Chokwe; Luvale
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Angola Kalwena
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR180; 11
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:32
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/10962/183430