Small Things Fall From The Baobob Tree
The Zawose Family
This CD traces an extraordinary legacy of African music, as one musical legend passes and the door opens on a new era. Recorded at Real World Studios and at radio station in Seattle a number of these songs are the last ever recordings of the great Hukwe Zawose and his uniquely talented nephew Charles before their untimely deaths. The CD also introduces the voice of the new generation - the young Zawose Family –rapturous, joyous, polyphonic singing accompanying buzzing thumb pianos, soaring izeze fiddle and exuberant rhythms.
Peter Gabriel said Hukwe Zawose’s music was “some of the most beautiful music we have ever put out on Real World Records” and invited him to be the support act for the 2003 “Growing Up” tour of North America. This was to be Hukwe’s last trip abroad. On returning to Tanzania at the end of 2003 he died suddenly of AIDS followed only one year later by Charles.
Inspite of the hardships this devastation has brought to the family, the music has survived – the house in Bagamoyo is still buzzing with sound, possibly more than before as conscious mortality makes what is left over even more sacred. There is a new energy in the family learning from the bad times and building for a better future for the whole family and its music – a music that will never be lost.
Small Things Fall From the Baobab Tree’ will be sold in support of the Zawose Foundation which aims to support traditional musicians and artists in the Bagamoyo region of Tanzania. The organisation is founded in memory of the late Dr Hukwe Zawose - Tanzania's foremost master of traditional Wagogo music.
Add To Basketmore info£9.72Small Things Fall From The Baobob Tree - CDplay Notendachi (What Shall I Do?) The Zawose Family 3m 25s play Haya Iye Ng'ombe (This is a Cow) The Zawose Family 4m 15s play Dunia Hii (This World) The Zawose Family 5m 20s play Ngadu Gwe The Zawose Family 1m 34s play Find My Cow The Zawose Family 5m 10s play Tufurahie Mziki Wetu The Zawose Family 6m 36s play Nhanga Msakuz (Feeding Guinea Fowl) The Zawose Family 7m 24s play Ndaga Mgonile (Good Morning) The Zawose Family 3m 17s play Nyangauya The Zawose Family 6m 5s play Songa Mbele (Push Ahead) The Zawose Family 4m 18s play Tumekumuka Nyumbani The Zawose Family 3m 53s play Kuna Kunguni (The Bedbugs Bite) The Zawose Family 5m
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