- artist:various
- featured artist:various
- region:Central Africa
- release year:2000
- style(s):Afro, Ethnic
- country:Malawi
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:SWP Records
- label:SWP Records
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This album starts off with the amazing blind singer/songwriter Beti Kamanga, strumming his bangwe board zither as though he invented rock and roll. The date is 1950 and he never ventured beyond his beloved shores of Lake Malawi. Other instruments featured here: the karigo bow, the kalimba, extraordinary malipenga music, men's choirs and polyphony by the women. Recordings by Hugh Tracey from 1950, '51 & '58. Music from a bygone era.