Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Marehwarehwa



Coming from Thomas Mapfumo's "unplugged" 50th birthday tour of the U.S. in 1995, Live at El Rey documents reimaginings of his music for two mbiras, bass, and drums, which is a dramatically stripped-down ensemble compared to the normal Blacks Unlimited army of musicians. The result is stark, and mainly rewarding for the clarity of the mbiras (hypnotic as ever) played by Ngoni Makombe and Bezil Makombe.

Shumba

Nyoka Musango

Zimbabwean Political Art



                                          
                               Owen Maseko : they made us sing                                                                                                                                                                    








    Tsvagarai Mukwazhi : Scramble for space, market place

Chitima Nditakure

Pembarai

a song celebrating independence from England

Zimbabwe-Mozambique