David Fanshawe: East Africa:Witchcraft/Ritual Music

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  • Label: Non, 1975
  • Order number: 5760170
  • Release date: 27.8.2002
  1. 1 Ngoma ra mrongo (Taita, Kenya) Start
  2. 2 Mwari Initiantion (Taita, Kenya) Start
  3. 3 Coconut Pickers Song (Lamu, Kenya) Start
  4. 4 Matondoni Wedding (Lamu, Kenya) Start
  5. 5 Marimba (Lamu, Kenya) Start
  6. 6 Tuken Moral Songs (Kenya) Start
  7. 7 Giriama Spirit Dance (Kenya) Start
  8. 8 Kayamba Dance: Giriama Wedding (Kenya) Start
  9. 9 Alto Bung'o Horn (Kenya) Start
  10. 10 Akamba Witch Doctor (Kenya) Start
  11. 11 Pokot Witch Doctor (Kenya) Start
  12. 12 Pokot Dance (Kenya) Start
  13. 13 Songs of Dawn (Kenya) Start
  14. 14 Lukuji (Kenya) Start
  15. 15 Nyatiti (Kenya) Start
  16. 16 Funeral Dance (Kenya) Start

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Originally released in 1975 as Africa: Witchcraft & Ritual Music

In order to provide a historical context for this recording, the liner notes that accompanied its original release have been reprinted in full below. The text has not been edited to reflect changes in general cultural perceptions or specific factual information that may have occurred since then. —Ed.

In this recording, I have tried to capture the spirit of a musical heritage now nearly extinct. The music on this album comes from a part of East Africa whose musical traditions remain largely unknown to the rest of the world. Particularly fascinating is the manner in which music and medicine are combined in the indigenous practice of witchcraft; music takes on the power of medicine, and medicine becomes associated with the healing sound of drums, interwoven with beautiful threads of melody.

—David Fanshawe, 1975

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