Nyatwa Mbira Piece Intensive
$20.00
Available as CD or download
Description
Nyatwa means ‘Trouble’, ‘Danger’, or ‘Misfortune’. The Chigamba family called it ‘Pfumvu yemhembwe’ (’Troubles of / danger to a duiker/small antelope’) in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, then ‘Pfumvu yenyasa’, later calling it Nyatwa. This collection includes perfomances of the piece in mavembe/gandanga tuning. [Total time: 75:55]
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Tracks
- Tute Chigamba kushaura 1994 [4:18]
- Irene Chigamba kushaura 1994 [0:36]
- Tute Chigamba 1991 [6:14]
- Tute Chigamba kutsinhira 1994 [3:26]
- Tute Chigamba kutsinhira 1994 [6:30]
- Tute Chigamba kutsinhira 1994 [6:38]
- Irene Chigamba 1994 [3:40]
- Garadziva Chigamba kutsinhira 1994 [3:59]
- Tute & Irene Chigamba 1988 [4:48]
- Garadziva Chigamba & Wiriranai Chigonga 1998 [5:52]
- Irene Chigamba & Erica Azim 2006 [6:02]
- Irene & Garadziva Chigamba & Young Zimbabweans 1994 [4:50]
- Irene & Garadziva Chigamba 2000 [9:21]
- Mhuri yekwaChigamba 1994 [8:46]






