Bembero Mbira Piece Intensive
$20.00
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Description
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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