Master Drummers of Africa - Kopano
[EUCD1631]

CD Information • CD Title: Master Drummers of Africa - Kopano • Artist(s): Various Artists • CD Code: EUCD1631 • Tracks: 16 • Playing Time: 64:06 min • Booklet Info in: English, Spanish, German

Drums are used to contact the ancestors, to communicate over long distances and to accompany celebrations or rites within a clan or group.

Dingane Lelokoane, Mona (Paul) Mashinini, Mthando ‘Brigga’ Khanyile and Thulani Sengwayo and a group of Tswana drummers play individually-made Isigubhu, (Zulu bass drums), a variety of bush toms called Izi-Gubhu, shakers (Amagula or Igula), Djembes, a drum used in West Africa - Guinea, Senegal and Ghana. Shouts, singing, stamping, whistles and so on, are all part of what they do.

Track Listing:

1. IPELEGENG Ensemble: WAWA-NKO - 4:32

2. IPELEGENG Advanced Group: DJOLA - 3:45

3. SERANKURE Music Arts: KOPANO - 2:41

4. IPELEGENG Experimental Group: MEROPA LE DI KOTA - 2:59

5. IPELEGENG Ensemble: MTHANDAZO - 4:36

6. SERANKURE Music Arts: TSIE - 2:29

7. IPELEGENG Advanced Group: MALOWE - 4:12

8. IPELEGENG Experimental Group: DIKOSHA - 3:31

9. IPELEGENG Ensemble: THULANI - 4:08

10. IPELEGENG Experimental Group: MONA - 3:26

11. SERANKURE Music Arts: MEROPA YA BA DIMO - 3:59

12. IPELEGENG Ensemble: LEATO - 5:45

13. IPELEGENG Advanced Group: DO IT - 4:31

14. IPELEGENG Ensemble: IMBIZO - 1:50

15. IPELEGENG Advanced Group: NZOMBA - 4:55

16. IPELEGENG Ensemble: Interlude: WAWA-NKO CHILDREN'S DANCE into Finale: IMBIZO Part Two - 6:47