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Chakwi Mbira Piece Intensive

Name: Chakwi Mbira Piece Intensive
SKU: music-3932
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SKU: music-3932 Categories: Mbira Piece Intensive Listening, All the Music, Audio Recordings, Mbira Piece Intensive Listening

Description

Chakwi is a piece from the over 1,000-year old Shona mbira repertoire played in ceremonies. Chakwi, Chaakwi, or Machakwi, is variously translated as a marsh or marshy area, the sound of walking in a marsh, or a duck. [Total time: 78:19]

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Tracks

Leonard Chiyanike 2003 [8:00]
Forward Kwenda 2001 [8:11]
Fradreck & Sam Mujuru 1994 [9:02]
Renold & Caution Shonhai 2005 [9:08]
Fradreck & Sam Mujuru 1994 [8:30]
Forward Kwenda & Erica Azim 2000 [8:07]
Caution Shonhai & Erica Azim 2010 [7:48]
Renold & Caution Shonhai 2009 [10:58]
Dambatsoko Mbira Group: The Next Generation 2009 [8:00]

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Title	Chakwi Mbira Piece Intensive
SKU	music-3932
Dimensions	N/A
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Product Format	CD, Download

Chakwi Mbira Piece Intensive

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