Who knows about African light music?

There is such an album: Album Chinese name: 非洲传统歌舞音乐专辑英文名: Traditional Songs & Dances from Africa艺术家: ARC Music资源格式: MP3版本: [2CD]发行时间: 1998年简介:

Album Description:

一般 African music, in the sense of the word, usually refers to the music of Black Africa. Both culturally and historically, Africa clearly presents two parts divided by the Sahara. North Africa north of the Sahara includes Egypt, the Maghreb and a small part of Sudan, this area is usually classified as the Islamic-Arab world, its civilization since ancient times with Europe, the Near East has an inseparable link, and its race is also different from the other black species of Africans; and south of the Sahara, in addition to the historical and political forces of division created some kingdoms, mainly the black African music. South of the Sahara, in addition to some kingdoms created by historical and political forces of division, there are mainly various primitive tribes and ethnic groups in Black Africa. Some of them are as tall and strong as the Sultan-Negro race of West Africa, others are as small and weak as the Pygmies of Central Africa, and there are also tribes as brave as the Bantu of South Africa. Although we can think of Black Africa as a relatively homogeneous race, it is very heterogeneous when subdivided. Some of the races have migrated and intermingled, creating new cultural identities.

The traditional music of Black Africa has its roots in the tribal activities of the various races. Much of the music is quite primitive, and in the rainforests of Central and West Africa and the grasslands to the south, the races are still in a primitive state of settlement, and song, dance and music are a form of ritual or ceremony. In Tanzania, East Africa, tribal witchdoctors often use music as a means of healing, or, alternatively, music has even become a political means of wielding power.

But while the foundations of African music are primitive, the forms in which it is performed are often remarkable. It is well known that African drumming is one of the most complex types of music in the world. In West Africa, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso's Yoruba (yoruba) drumming, for example, drums often have dozens of people, grouped to play different beats, forming a multi-part complex drums. In Guinea, C?te d'Ivoire and other regions, there is the famous djemb hand drum. These rhythmic variations are often so uncanny that some Western researchers have been forced to assume that black African peoples are born with an extraordinary sense of rhythm.

In contrast to the general prosperity of rhythmic music, instrumental music in Africa, shows a polarization. One group, like the Pygmies or other primitive tribes, usually had no instrumental music or at least did not use stringed instruments. If they do, they are often used to accompany vocal music, which is more akin to a metronome with tonal variations than to instrumental music. Namibia, in Southern Africa, also has a number of cold instrumental forms that are poorly developed, simply tuned, and odd-sounding. Some wind instruments, for example, are so simple that they produce only one note and are used only for specific rituals. On the other hand, another kind of instruments, such as mbira, kora, marimba, lyre, etc., have a high degree of development, which, on the one hand, of course, comes from the region with the accumulation of civilization, such as West Africa, such as East Africa, there have been dozens of kingdoms of all sizes; on the other hand, the intervention of the Islamic civilization in the north has also had a certain influence. West and East Africa, there are Islamic music instruments in ancient times, although in black Africa eventually became an African instrument.

And in terms of vocal music, many parts of Africa take three degrees of parallel singing, which is one of the factors that most characterize African music itself. But Africa also has many eclectic forms of vocal music, which are often difficult to categorize as "singing". Some tribes play music with regular shouts or rhythmic chants, which are more instinctive vocalizations. Southern and Central Africa have their own distinctive vocal systems, and the backing vocals of Namibia and the polyphonic whispers of the Pygmies in the Congolese jungle are among the types of music that have fascinated many ethnomusicologists.

Today, if we want to examine African music in its most essential and original form, we have to go deeper and deeper into the increasingly rare tribes and primitive communes, because there have been too many modern factors accumulated in today's African music. The guitar has become the most common instrument in Africa, and while the African independence movement was high around the 1950s-1960s, society became more and more westernized and jazz began to emerge. This caused the original musical landscape of Black Africa to change dramatically, in terms of maintaining national music. A number of emerging musical groups were absorbing Western ideas, as if Yoruba orchestras had become West African Broadway and mbira players had become rock stars, and a pure, black Africa was dying.

This recording is dominated by a drumming and cabaret backed vocal performance by the renowned Adzido African Orchestra. Formed in 1984, the group was created by Ghanaian drum master George KIwane Dzikunu as a group that aspired to refine and explore the potential of African song and dance traditions. The ensemble began to gain worldwide fame in the mid-1990s and has released a series of recordings on ARC Records, featuring music from a wide range of Black African drumming and song and dance.

Two notes:

1. High bit rate VBR encoded mp3 with full booklet.

2. This resource is from the internet, thanks to the original publisher. Album tracks:

CD1

01. Tematei/Zaouli (Ivory Coast)

02. Sembe (Mozambique)

03. Setapa (Botswana)

04. Ndenduele (Zambia)

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05. Bawa (Ghana)

06. Atsia (Togo)

07. Ngoni (Tanzania)

08. Bakisimba/Nankasa (Uganda)

09. Tongoyo (Zimbabwe)

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10. Gule Wamkulu Mask Dance (Malawi)

11. Sekiapu (Nigeria)

12. Isikuti (Kenya)

CD2

01. Kumpo (Senegal)

02. Adzogbo (Benin)

03. Wali (Guinea)

04. Damba Takai (Ghana)

05. Iphi Yeza (South Africa)

06. Zagrobi (Ivory Coast)

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07. Atilogwu (Nigeria)

08. Borana Dance (Kenya)

09. Warrior (South Africa)

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