Music from Mozambique, Vol 3 Chordophonic Music CD

"This item is part of the Folkways (Cook, or Paredon, or Monitor) archives. The original liner notes from the LP are included."

Chopi men may be garbage collectors and street sweepers by day, but virtuosic timbila players by night. Timbila, a type of xylophone in this case using tin-can resonators instead of the traditional massala fruit shell one might still find in the country, are gathered into a percussion orchestra to play partially improvised, complex contrapuntal music. Beyond the sounds of the timbila, a pair of brothers who sell charcoal for their living expertly play the shitendé and shivelan, stringed instruments played with sticks or bows. This is music of Chopi workers—from the cities and the countryside.

     101      Shitende      Luis Naife      5:48     
     102     Shitende     Fernando Naife     5:14    
     103     Shivelan     José Mahombé     2:56    
     104     Shivelan     Jose Mahombe     5:49    
     105     Timbila Solo     Spooni Wilessene     1:58    
     106     Timbila and Shivelan     Macauze and Afredo Malangane     2:20    
     107     Orchestral Timbila     Orchestral Timbila of Buqué, Zandmela     3:45    
     201     Orchestral Timbila of Xipamanine     Shipamanine Timbila Orchestra     20:58    
     202     Zora Drums     Zora group of Maputo, Mozambique     5:57