Mozambique - OneGlobestyle CDORB 086, 1994
01. Grupo Xitende da Orquesta de Timbala - Magalango
02. Grupo Ngalanga da Unidade 7 - Muticico/Munguenisso
03. Grupo Estrela Vermelha do Ilha de Mocanbique - Enhipitit Equissirua
04. Joao Mate - Mama Na Wamina Anga Monaga Meticale
05. Grupo Estrela Vermelha (Carrupeia Bairro, Nampula) - Unabadera Uhema
06. Grupo Cultura N'Kissa - N'Kissa
07. Machipiga Mafiso - Ndiribe Nyumba
08. Grupo 'Kava Unga Heti' Alberto Machavel - Tira Hikhumbula Mondlane
09. 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. Afonco Balate - Nisalili Aussiwanini
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 Traditional log drums have been replaced by oil drums or pieces of corrugated metal, and coffee cans filled with pebbles substitute for gourd rattles, but the indigenous rhythms and melodies endure.
Recorded in 1989 but issued years later, this is a really splendid collection of music ranging from traditional musical bow through large voices-and-percussion groups and wonderful Makua fiddle via Shangaan rural guitar and accordion to an a cappella group performing a form of mbube brought back from South Africa by migrant workers. -John Storm Roberts
320 kbps mp3; including full booklet scans
http://rapidshare.com/files/105372201/M-O.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/105375442/M-O.part2.rar
