Various Artists - The Nguni Sound
The Nguni live along the south-east coast of Africa; an almost entirely vocal tradition. Groups with great vocal power, rich in melody & harmony, reflective..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 20
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional.
Various Artists - Tanzania vocals 1950 – Gogo, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Chagga, Massai
This CD is a selection of a capella performances. Here more than 600 Chagga men and women chant on the southern slopes of MT Meru, at least 100 hundred Gogo sin..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 23
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional.
Various Artists - Southern Mozambique
The area below the Zambesi River is inhabited by the Sena, Ndau, Shangaan, Chopi & Gitonga peoples. Mbiras (thumb pianos), chants, drums, xylophones, ocarin..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 21
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Traditional, Xylophone.
Various Artists - Southern & Central Malawi
Partly the same instruments as on the SWP 014, also some magnificent tuned likhuba drum ensembles & xylophone playing from near Zambezi valley. A capella si..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 13
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Traditional, Xylophone.
Various Artists - Origins of Guitar Music
As recorded in Southern Congo & Northern Zambia between 1950 & 1958. The Katanga guitar style in Congo originated in the Likembe tradition, the sound fr..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 15
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional.
Various Artists - Northern & Central Malawi
Featuring amazing blind singer Beti Kamanga, strumming his bangwe zither as though he invented rock & roll (recorded 1950) near Lake Malawi. Other instrumen..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 14
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional.
Various Artists - Congo: Kanyok and Luba
From the amazing archives of recordings by Hugh Tracey, this issue features the lesser known Kanyok people & their Luba neighbours in the 50’s. Most o..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 11
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional.
Various Artists - Colonial Dance Bands 1950 and 1952 (Kenya, Tanganyika, Portugese East Africa, Northern Rhodesia, Belgian Congo)
This album presents a variety of African bands playing dance music during the colonial period. Recorded in the British colonies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Norther..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 31
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tag: African.
Various Artists - Bulawayo Jazz 1950/51/52
In no book of the history of jazz will you find any mention, let alone a chapter, about an exciting own style of jazz developed in Africa in the early 1950s ..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 032/HT021
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Afro-Jazz.
