Instrumental Music of the Kalahari San

Rather than performing for an audience, the !Kung San people from the northwestern Kalahari Desert region "play [music] for themselves, when the mood strikes them." Perhaps that’s what makes it so compelling. Here is a demonstration of music played on gut pluriarc (bow lute), gut hunting bow and sitengena (thumb piano), with vocal accompaniment.

Track Listing

101	Gut pluriarc with 3 Men's Voices	Musicians of Namibia	02:36
102	Metal pluriarc with one woman's voice	Hwan//a	03:31
103	Gut hunting bow, solo	Tuma We	02:00
104	Gut hunting bow with one man's voice	Tashay Kumsi	03:08
105	Gut hunting bow with resonator and one man's voice	Uxone	02:42
106	Sitengena with one man's voice	Tikay	07:00
201	Te bow with two women's voices	Recorded in Kauri	03:02
202	Tin can bow solo	Recorded in Namimbia	01:44
203	Sitengena solo: "Rain Song"	Recorded in Botswana	01:15
204	Sitengena with one man's voice	Gau	02:20
205	Gut pluriarc with one man's voice	Recorded in Namibia	03:51
206	Metal pluriarc with one woman's voice	Hwan//a	02:05
207	Guthunting bow with one man's voice	Recorded in Namibia	02:38