FROM DEEP IN THE WELL: VINTAGE SOUNDS FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
A selection from the World Library of Folk and Primitive Music by Jim Haas.
TRACKLIST
01 Malinke dance in praise of hunters, Guinea
02 Bena Luluwa relaxation song, Angola-Zaire
03 Hausa street music, itinerant musicians, Niger
04 Hakurotwi Mude and companions, mbira (finger piano), Shona, Zimbabwe
05 Wara whistle band, Burkina Faso
06 Nyoro xylophone performance, 'Musingasinga yakora egali’, Uganda
07 Wagogo soothing song, Tanzania
08 Alhaji Sait Camara on the halam (fretless lute) 'Yaha Yaha', Mali
09 Tuareg medicinal chant, Mali
10 Zaramo drum group, 'Mitamba yalagala kumchuzi', Tanzania
11 Mbuti hunting cries, Congo
12 Bobo-Dyoula bala (xylophone) duet, wedding music, 'Boli-Bana', Burkina Faso
13 Nogundi funeral song, Congo
14 Mossi agricultural work song, 'Wenlega', Burkina Faso
15 Hutu inanga (trough zither), 'Take Me Back to Mabayi', Burundi
16 Badouma dance song, Gabon
17 Ngoma festivity music, aluar horns, Zaire border, Uganda
18 Juldeh Camara on the nyanyer (fiddle), 'Nyanyer Song', Fulani, Gambia
19 Afar divining chant, 'Heh-le-le-la’, Ethiopia
20 Chopi Ngodo orchestral dance, Tanzania
21 Deftene Belete Mengesh on the begena, a ten-string box-lyre, religious song, Amharic, Ethiopia
22 Babinga Bangombe elephant hunt song, Congo
23 Makanda and Kawika Kapende, 'Kandala ha sali awoyele!', Tshokwe, Zaire-Angola
24 Giriama wedding music, 'Kayamba dance', Kenya
25 Tshokwe sanza (finger piano) solo, Angola
26 Gwin festival dance, Burkina Faso
27 Chumburu girl throat-singing, 'Marilli', Ghana
28 Healing song, gunshots and chorus, Southern Madagascar
29 Kassena flute ensemble, 'Djongo', Burkina Faso
30 Turkana song in praise of the elephant, Kenya
31 Batwa welcome dance, Uganda
32 Bawanji porter's song, Gabon
33 Acholi musician playing the enanga (trough zither) with accompaniment, Uganda
34 Chewa Muganda dance, 'Manyanda', Mozambique
35 Mugadzikwa Mwanagona, 'Chirombo weye nditerere', Shona, Zimbabwe
36 Dorze song, Lome, Ethiopia
37 Pokot girl's circumcision song, Kenya
38 Dance celebrating the art of the jali (hereditary caste of musicians,) Gambia
39 Masai Raiding Songs, Kenya
40 Djerma dundun (hourglass) drummers, Niger
41 Abdoulie Samba on the halam (fretless lute), 'Alfayaya', Senegal
42 Hutu drinking song, 'Bernadette', Burundi
43 Ngayamiso Kitunga, Harusi wedding tune, Nyamwezi, Tanzania
44 Malinke praise song for an ancestral chief, 'Kaira Bari', Guinea
45 itinerant Fulani ensemble, praise song for a chief, Burkina Faso
46 funeral celebration for a Mossi chief performed by Bissa musicians, Burkina Faso
47 Baule drinking song, Cote d'Ivoire
48 Festival dance of the Bena Luluwa, Angola
49 Bachumirwa Tugwenderwa, 'Kyenda ali mugenyi', Nyoro, Uganda
50 Zulu martial chant, South Africa
51 Habib bin Seliman on the nanga (trough zither) 'Mugasha', Haya, Tanzania
52 Mandinka griot 'high life' music, balafon (xylophone) and kora (harp), 'Dangoma', Gambia
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