✕
1/
Skip to main content

Shop

Mtsotsho and other dances from the Gcaleka of South Africa

Various Artists
Mtsotsho and other dances from the Gcaleka of South Africa
View Cart
Download $9.99
Download $9.99
Pioneer collector, Hugh Tracey collected several dance songs from the Gcaleka culture group found in the Transkei, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa in 1957. The music often includes overlapping melody lines as well deep, rhythmic wordless vocalizations (called eefing in North America).

Track Listing

icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
101
Inkuntse Group of young boys and girls 2:37
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
102
Wayisebenzela Ijoyini (He worked for the contract) Group of young boys and girls 3:01
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
103
Malayisha I (Hold the sun, so that it sets) Group of young Gcaleka girls and amakwenkwe 1:20
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
104
Malayisha II (Hold the sun, so that it sets) Group of young Gcaleka girls and amakwenkwe 1:36
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
105
Nganibonge Amakentani (Please praise the Kentani people) Thombi Fegetwai and Gcaleka boys and girls 2:53
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
106
Amaseyibokwe athengwa ngemali eninzi (For a certain type of socks you pay dearly) Group of Gcaleka boys and girls 2:23
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
107
Umama litshipa (Mother is an absconder) Group of Gcaleka boys and girls 3:06
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
108
Mama ndaswelindawo ngendaba (Mother, I am short of accommodation on account of the news) Group of Gcaleka boys and girls 1:25
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
109
Bam! Mfana kabanina undenzenzima (Bam! Whose son has made me pregnant?) Group of Gcaleka women 2:53
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
110
Nkonkonko (Whooping cough) Group of young Gcaleka boys and girls 1:42
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
111
Nyakumtyela egageni (You will eat it out of doors) Nodinile 2:51

Album Info

Catalog Number

ILAMTR063

Year(s) Released

1957

Label/Collection

International Library of African Music (ILAM)

Genre(s)

World

Country(s)

South Africa

Culture Group(s)

Gcaleka

Instrument(s)

Clapping, hand; Ensemble leader; Hadi; Harmonica; Ikinki; Vocals; Vocals, group

Language(s)

Xhosa

Credit(s)

Hugh Tracey - Compiler, Liner Notes Editor, Liner Notes, Recorder
TOP

.