Music from Mozambique, Vol. 3

Chopi men may be garbage collectors and street sweepers by day, but virtuosic timbila players by night. Timbila, a type of xylophone in this case using tin-can resonators instead of the traditional massala fruit shell one might still find in the country, are gathered into a percussion orchestra to play partially improvised, complex contrapuntal music. Beyond the sounds of the timbila, a pair of brothers who sell charcoal for their living expertly play the shitendé and shivelan, stringed instruments played with sticks or bows. This is music of Chopi workers—from the cities and the countryside.

Track Listing

101	Shitende (1) Luis Naife	05:48
102	Shitende (2) Fernando Naife	05:14
103	Shivelan (1) José Mahombé	02:56
104	Shivelan (2) José Mahombé	05:49
105	Timbila Solo Spooni Wilessene	01:58
106	Timbila and Shivelan Macauze and Afredo Malangane	02:20
107	Orchestral Timbila Orchestral Timbila of Buqué, Zandmela	03:45
201	Orchestral Timbila of Xipamanine Xipamanine Timbila Orchestra	20:58
202	Zora Drums Fruit sellers of the Xipamanine market, Maputo, Mozambique	05:57