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It used to be that folks looking for a little exotica would turn to Africa for some pygmy hocketing or talking drums to spice their diet of Western pop, but increasingly African pop music has grown to sound like hip-hop and other discoid fare. The frisson of otherness can still be found, if that's what you're after, in this sampler from Mozambique which showcases fifteen different groups playing music unlike anything you're likely to have heard before. Mozambique has resisted outside influences even as it struggled with a long brutal civil war, which was still going on at the time of this recording.
A Ladysmith Black Mambazo tribute by Makwaela might sound a bit familiar, and perhaps too the Gregorian harmonies of the Grupo Estrela Vermelha, but it soon drifts into otherworldliness. Traditional log drums have been replaced by oil drums or pieces of corrugated metal, and coffee cans filled with pebbles substitute for gourd rattles, but the indigenous rhythms and melodies endure.
Various – Mozambique One
Label:
Ace Records Ltd. – CDORBD 086
Format:
CD
Country:
Germany
Released:
1994
Genre:
Folk, World, & Country
Style:
African
Tracklist
1 –Grupo Xitende Da Orquestra De Timbila Magalango
2 –Grupo Ngalanga Da Unidade T Muticico/Munguenisso
3 –Grupo Estrela Vermelha Do Ilha De Moçambique Enhipiti Equissirua
4 –João Mate Mama Na Wamina Anga Monanga Meticale
5 –Grupo Estrela Vermelha (Carrupeia Bairro, Nampula) Unabadera Uhema
6 –Grupo Cultura N'Kissa N'Kissa * 1
7 –Machipiga Mafiso Ndiribe Nyumba
8 –Grupo 'Kava Unga Heti' Alberto Machavel Tira Hikhumbula Mondlane
9 –Conjunto Ndzumbe De Bairro Inhagoia Utemdene
10 –Grupo Chigovia De Jardim Zoologico Ntabuya Mundzuku
11 –Grupo Beira Mar Essifa Zonhipiti
12 –Grupo Nyanga De Moixange Chihire
13 –Baile Kaniwah Komvarava Kovela
14 –Makwaela T.P.M. Saudamos O Grupo Ladysmith Black Mambazo
15 –Afonço Balate Nisalili Aussiwanini
Companies, etc.
Published By – Mapiko Editions
Recorded By – Globestyle
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 029667308625