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In a World That Sings Together, Music is Bridging Cultural Chasms
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New York Times, In a World That Sings Together, Music is Bridging Cultural Chasms >>
Zimbabwe
The mbira, or thumb piano, is traditionally used in Zimbabwe for music that summons spirits, plinking its way through cycles of three or four chords. Stella Chiweshe's album "Talking Mbira: Spirits of Liberation" (Piranha), doesn't shy away from such untraditional tools as overdubbing; she turns herself into an mbira choir in two hypnotic studio solos. With her band, she blends mbira and marimba in pointillistic consonance in pieces that can be elaborately meditative or, when they're topped with her robust voice, full of joyful propulsion. Whether or not the songs communicate with other worlds, they brighten this one.
07/05/02 >> go there
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