16 July 2005
Saturday 16 July 2005 23:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Alwynne Pritchard reports from the Indaba festival held in Grahamstown, South Africa. This year's theme is Reimagining Africa, with music from across the continent. The featured composer is Justinian Tamusuza from Uganda, plus some cutting-edge electronica and the Bow Project, which celebrates Xhosa bow music in new compositions for mouth bow and string quartet.
Part of the Â鶹Éç's Africa Lives season.
Playlist
Presenter: Alwynne Pritchard
Producer: Philip Tagney
Broadcast Assistant: Patrick Johns
Traditional
'Un Tsiki' (3'30")
Madosini (vocal and mouth bow)
and Sazi Dlamini
Jiwe' (5'55")
and Sazi Dlamini (mouth bow, drum and vocal)
'Ways to put in the salt' (12'30")
Jill Richards (piano)
Han Buhrs and Luc Houtkamp
'Black Cat Bone' (excerpt) (1'00")
CD: X-OR Records CD 017 track 2
Duke Ellington, arr.
'It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing' (2'00")
CD not yet released commercially
'Dialect 1: The Hunter's Song' (5'50")
(piano)
Traditional
'Latshonilanga' (4'00")
Madosini (vocal and mouth-bow)
'Libalel'ilanga' (7'00")
'Brainhard' (7'15")
Electronic piece
'Two Structural Etudes'
- No.1, Counting and Attack (4'37")
- No.3, Voicing and Touch (9'08")
Jill Richards (piano)
Justinian Tamusuza
'Mu Kkubo Ery'Omusaalaba' (On the Way of the Cross) (26'15")
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