Nyuchi Mbira Piece Intensive

Name: Nyuchi Mbira Piece Intensive
SKU: music-3935
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SKU: music-3935 Categories: Mbira Piece Intensive Listening, All the Music, Audio Recordings, Mbira Piece Intensive Listening

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Nyuchi (”Bees”) is a traditional Shona song played in ceremonies and at other occasions. This collection includes perfomances of the piece in nyamaropa (track 3), mavembe/gandanga (tracks 1,2.7,8,9,10,11), nemakonde (track 5), and muchenje dongonda (track 4) tunings. Tute Chigamba tells a story, “Long ago, there was a man who was traveling to a place where he was afraid he could be attacked. He took a mukombe (gourd ladle) and filled it with bees, stuffing cloth in the opening to keep them inside. As he traveled, he was actually attacked. He released the bees, and his attackers ran away while being stung!” [Total time: 79:45]

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Tracks

Tute Chigamba 1991 [7:00]
3. Tute Chigamba 1991 [4:12]
4. Leonard Chiyanike 2012 [13:59]
5. Forward Kwenda 2001 [9:03]
6. Mukuwurirwa & Chiongotere 1999 [2:51]
7. Tigere & Tawedzera 2010 [4:49]
8. Tute & Irene Chigamba 2002 [6:20]
9. Kwenda & Azim 2001 [8:08]
10. Tute & Garadziva Chigamba 1991 [2:53]
11. Mhuri yekwaChigamba 1994 [9:28]

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Title	Nyuchi Mbira Piece Intensive
SKU	music-3935
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Nyuchi Mbira Piece Intensive

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