Bottlecaps and Spider Silk: Buzzing Music
Various Artists selected by DJ Golden Wilson for Africa-O-Ye! on KBOO community radio
Original air date: June 06, 2016
Part One:
Unknown !Kung musicians “Thumb (played) metal instrument” The Music of the !kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert (LP) Folkways
Alèmu Aga “Girf” Ende Jerusalem: Traditional Music from Ethiopia (CD)
Tabarirevu Muyambo “Detyetye kusheka” Hugh Tracey - The Music of Africa Series - Rhodesia 1 (LP) Kaleidophone
Daudi Otouma (Luo) “Naftali Ouko” Kenyan Songs and Strings (LP)
SK Kakraba Lobi “Nagyibe” Kanbile (CD) Pentatonic Press
Alidor Kankolongo & Ladislas Kayoka “Lumpungu” 1:38 – Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957 (LP) Sharp Wood Productions
Boys of Chief Mwai's Village “M'Sodomo - Nyanja-Chewa (Malawi)” Musical Instruments 4 - Flutes and Horns (LP) Kaleidophone
Sitoti “Sitoti Plays Malimba I” Music of Tanzania (LP) Sublime Frequencies
Alemu Aga “Dagem Metseat (Le Seigneur Reviendra)” Éthiopiques Vol. 11 - The Harp Of King David, Bägänna Of Ethiopia(CD) Buda Musique
Unknown male voice with begena: “I Beg You, Heart” Folk Music of Ethiopia (LP) Folkways
Hakurotwi Munde, Cosmas and Justin Magaya. “Shumba (Lion)” Shona Mbira Music (LP) Nonesuch Records
Unknown Luluwa musicians “Wa Kabwala Wa Beena Luluwa” Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957 (LP) Sharp Wood Productions
Komukomu WeSimbi “Chibudu (An Intermezzo)” The Music Of Africa Series - Musical Instruments 5. Xylophones (LP) Kaleidophone
Elisha Nyakango (Luo) “Peny Gi Polo” Kenyan Songs and Strings (CD) Sharp Wood Productions
Ebogoma Gabriel “Meria” Forest Music Northern Belgian Congo 1952 (CD) Sharp Wood Productions
Five Lozi Men “Mulaal karimukwa panga (Mulala stole money)” The Music of Africa Series - Musical Instruments - 5 – Xylophones (LP) Kaleidophone
Barwegira ni Baine “Kiriya [a woman is wonderful]” - African Instruments 2 – Mbira (LP) Folktracks
Four Issanji Players “Kabibobo” Music of the Bena Luluwa of Angola and Zaïre (LP) Lyrichord
Engbaka Philippe “Muzeze [prisoner, dance the Muzeze!]” African Instruments 2 - Mbira (LP) Folktracks
SK Kakraba Lobi “Pirifu” Kanbile (CD) Pentatonic Press
Part Two:
Unknown Cameroonian musician “Musique De Danse” Excavated Shellac: Opika Pende (4xCD) Dust-To-Digital
Daudi Otouma (Luo) “Chief Gidion Magak” - Kenyan Songs and Strings (CD) Sharp Wood Productions
Six Luba Men “Mutomboko and Luwendo” The Music of Africa Series - Musical Instruments - 5 – Xylophones (LP) Kaleidophone
Josiasi Yemba Mate “Sitima Senda Na Moto [the train goes with fire]” African Instruments 2 - Mbira (LP) Folktracks
Oboto Sukuma “Nakatiye” Forest Music Northern Belgian Congo (CD) Sharp Wood Productions
Gbaya musician “Song for Thinking” Central African Republic (LP) Bärenreiter-Musicaphon
Portasi “Sanza (Plucked Idiophone, or “Thumb Piano”)” Music of the Central African Pygmies: Echoes Of The Forest (CD) Ellipsis Arts
Unknown Nande musician “Three Likembe Tunes” On the Edge of the Ituri Forest (CD) Sharp Wood Productions
Muchatera Mujuru “Nyamoropa Yevena Vava Mushonga” The Soul of Mbira: Traditions of the Shona People of Rhodesia (LP) Nonesuch
Sitoti “Sitoti Plays Malimba and Sings” Music of Tanzania (CD) Sublime Frequencies
Francis Bebey “Tumu Pakara” Akwaaba: Music For Sanza (LP) Original Music
Hakurotwi Mude & Cosmas Magaya, Luken Pasipamire, Thomas Kwaramba “Dande” Shona Mbira Music (LP) Nonesuch Records
Teofili Banzi “Amana Mi Adu Nangwetia Lebobo” Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957 (LP) Sharp Wood Productions
Ebogoma Gabriel “Andanyero Mamamba” Forest Music Northern Belgian Congo 1952 (CD) Sharp Wood Productions
Alèmu Aga “Wanen” Ende Jerusalem: Traditional Music from Ethiopia (CD)
Dumisani Abraham Maraire, Mkosana Arthus Maraire, Skutai Laura Chiora “Ndini Baba” (I am the father) The African Mbira, Music of the Shona People of Rhodesia (LP) Nonesuch