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Imilishyo y'ingoma - Urukantege (Track)
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This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of East Africa". The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same le...
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Imilishyo y'ingoma - Urukina (Field Card)
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This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of East Africa". The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same le...
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Imilishyo y'ingoma - Urukina (Track)
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This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of East Africa". The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same le...
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Imilishyo y'ingoma - Zigezikaragwe (Field Card)
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This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of East Africa". The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same le...
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Imilishyo y'ingoma - Zigezikaragwe (Track)
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This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of East Africa". The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same le...
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Imirindi (Track)
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The drums are not the normal drums used in Rwanda but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in thevVillages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu m...
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Indilimbo y' Ingeruzabahizi (Field Card)
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The song refers to the recruiting of the men of Ruanda-Urundi for work on the Copper mines of the Katanga Province in the south of the Congo Belge. The Union Miniere asked the Mwami of Ruanda for strong men for this work and when they arrived at the airfield they asked their leader which way they would travel. "It...
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Indilimbo y' Ingeruzabahizi (Track)
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The song refers to the recruiting of the men of Ruanda-Urundi for work on the Copper mines of the Katanga Province in the south of the Congo Belge. The Union Miniere asked the Mwami of Ruanda for strong men for this work and when they arrived at the airfield they asked their leader which way they would travel. "It...
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Kamango (Track)
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The Kamango Drum is the Chief's Drum and is used when a new chief is declared -- it is used exclusively for the Chief. There is nothing to tell the uninitiated that it was a special drum as it is of the usual shape, if slightly larger than most. The drum was 43 inches tall and 17 inches across the head, goblet sha...
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Katela I (Track)
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These songs and the accompanying dances are performed when there is a death in the village. Ketela is the generic name of this type of dance song. A number of clapping rhythms occur in these songs including: -- a. //1, -, 3, 4, -, 6, 7, -//
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