16 July 2005
Saturday 16 July 2005 23:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Alwynne Pritchard reports from the Indaba festival held in Grahamstown, South Africa. This year's theme is Reimagining Africa, with music from across the continent. The featured composer is Justinian Tamusuza from Uganda, plus some cutting-edge electronica and the Bow Project, which celebrates Xhosa bow music in new compositions for mouth bow and string quartet.
Part of the BBC's Africa Lives season.
Playlist
Presenter: Alwynne Pritchard
Producer: Philip Tagney
Broadcast Assistant: Patrick Johns
New Music Indaba
Traditional
'Un Tsiki' (3'30")
Madosini (vocal and mouth bow)
Jurgen Brauninger and Sazi Dlamini
Jiwe' (5'55")
Sontonga String Quartet and Sazi Dlamini (mouth bow, drum and vocal)
Michael Blake
'Ways to put in the salt' (12'30")
Jill Richards (piano)
Han Buhrs and Luc Houtkamp
'Black Cat Bone' (excerpt) (1'00")
POW ensemble
CD: X-OR Records CD 017 track 2
Duke Ellington, arr. POW ensemble
'It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing' (2'00")
POW ensemble
CD not yet released commercially
Emmanuel Gyimah Labi
'Dialect 1: The Hunter's Song' (5'50")
Darryl Hollister (piano)
Traditional
'Latshonilanga' (4'00")
Madosini (vocal and mouth-bow)
Robert Fokkens
'Libalel'ilanga' (7'00")
Sontonga String Quartet
Cobi van Tonder
'Brainhard' (7'15")
Electronic piece
Kevin Volans
'Two Structural Etudes'
- No.1, Counting and Attack (4'37")
- No.3, Voicing and Touch (9'08")
Jill Richards (piano)
Justinian Tamusuza
'Mu Kkubo Ery'Omusaalaba' (On the Way of the Cross) (26'15")
Sontonga String Quartet
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