Bembero Mbira Piece Intensive

Name: Bembero Mbira Piece Intensive
SKU: music-3920
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SKU: music-3920 Categories: Mbira Piece Intensive Listening, All the Music, Audio Recordings, Mbira Piece Intensive Listening

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Bembero is an ancient Shona mbira piece played in ceremonies. The name, translated as’ Happiness of celebration’, is derived from the verb kupembera ‘to dance with joy, exult, rejoice’. [Total time: 79:27]

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Tracks

Tute & Palmer Chigamba 1986 [4:11]
Tute Chigamba 1986 [4:50]
Tute Chigamba 1991 [4:39]
Tute Chigamba 1998 [2:58]
Garadziva Chigamba 1994 [5:44]
Tute & Irene Chigamba 1991 [6:47]
Tute & Garadziva Chigamba 1991 [5:42]
Forward Kwenda & Erica Azim 1991 [11:56]
Forward Kwenda & Todd Boekelheide 1994 [9:05]
Irene & Garadziva Chigamba 1994 [6:43]
Garadziva Chigamba & Wiriranai Chigonga 1998 [6:25]
Mhuri yekwaChigamba 1994 [9:34]

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Title	Bembero Mbira Piece Intensive
SKU	music-3920
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Product Format	CD, Download

Bembero Mbira Piece Intensive

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