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Chigwaya Mbira Piece Intensive

Name: Chigwaya Mbira Piece Intensive
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SKU: music-3952 Categories: Mbira Piece Intensive Listening, All the Music, Audio Recordings, Mbira Piece Intensive Listening

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Chigwaya is a piece from the over 1,000-year old Shona mbira repertoire played in ceremonies. It is specifically played in shave ceremonies to call njuzu (mermaid) spirits, believed to bring health, wealth, and powers of prophecy. Those with njuzu spirits are often herbalists. Chigwaya literally means bream, a type of fish, but symbolizes the mermaid. The song repeats “It plays in its river”, implying joy and delight in a time of plenty. This collection includes recordings from 1976 to 2014. [Total time: 72:28]

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Tracks

Dzepasichigare Singers 2009 [6:59]
Musekiwa Chingodza 1998 [7:10]
Endiby Makope 2009 [2:23]
Tavengwa Chikupo 2003 [6:38]
Thomas Wadarwa 1999 [6:24]
Brian Chikwepa 2010 [6:10]
Josephat Mandaza 2014 [9:40]
Vitalis Botsa & Fabian Rujuwa 2002 [7:07]
Silas Madziva & Panganai Sanyika 2003 [5:42]
Patience Chaitezvi & Erica Azim 2009 [10:26]
Mhuri yavaMandaza 1976 [3:05]

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Title	Chigwaya Mbira Piece Intensive
SKU	music-3952
Product Format	Download

Chigwaya Mbira Piece Intensive

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