The Source of Sound episode 82: Sudan.
Lyres, the Nuba and Waza Wind Orchestras.
A broadcast on the multifaceted music of Sudan. We start in northern Nubia with songs accompanied by a kisir – as the lyre is known there – frame drums or taar, dance songs sung without words, the Hm Bee genre, and a song accompanied by the sound of a water wheel. Next, we move on to music from the Nuba people, who are best known for appearing in photographs taken by Hitler’s favourite film-maker Leni Riefenstahl, but whose music was rarely recorded and whose culture has now largely disappeared. This is followed by a number of works by inhabitants of South Kordofan of the Dinka, another wordless song by the Chalabla nomads and two Waza wind orchestra pieces played on trumpets and horns made from gourds and other vegetable materials. Living on the border of Sudan and South Sudan, the people who make this kind of music have suffered a great deal from the long and often bloody war for the independence of the South. We conclude today’s programme with a number of ceremonial dances accompanied by a tambura, as the lyre is called at the Sudanese border with Ethiopia.
01 Waya-logo Wayag onnon 2’27
Hussein Mohammed Ahmed Wagiya Allah: vocals and kisir (lyra)
LP Musik der Nubier
Museum Collection Berlin MC 9, 1 A4
recorded Artur Simon
02 Ay fa kirnnoogonilla 6’39
Dahab Khalil: vocals and kisir
LP Musik der Nubier
Museum Collection Berlin MC 9, 1 A1
recordings Artur Simon
03 Ajjibeeri dessa massoodta daffo 4’16
Mohammed Awad: vocals and kisir
LP Musik der Nubier
Museum Collection Berlin MC 9, 1 A2
recordings Artur Simon
04 Allah ya saada leeh 3’27
Soliman Abu Zeid: vocals and taar (frame drum),
Mohammed Fadl Bilal: taar,Ramadan Soliman,
Hassan Ahmed Mohammed Ramadan, Ahmed
Moheddin, Ahmed Merghanni: chorus
LP Musik der Nubier
Museum Collection Berlin MC 9, 1B 3
recordings Artur Simon
05 Wadi Halfa wo hanina 3’41
Ali Ahmed Ali: vocals and taar, Gamal Ahmed Soliman:
vocals and taar, Gamal Ahmed Soliman: vocals and riqq
(tambourine), Abd El-Rahman: vocals, 8 chorus singers
LP Musik der Nubier
Museum Collection Berlin MC 9, 1B 4
recordings Artur Simon
06 Hm bee 2’28
Hassan Fagir, Salah Kurdi, Khalil Soliman: vocals,
hand clapping, foot stamping
LP Musik der Nubier
Museum Collection Berlin MC 9, 2A 1
recordings Artur Simon
07 Hm bee 4’21
7 young men from El-Ghaddar
LP Musik der Nubier
Museum Collection Berlin MC 9, 2A 2
recordings Artur Simon
08 Singing on the eskalee 3’07
Salih Ali Soliman: vocals
LP Musik der Nubier
Museum Collection Berlin MC 9, 2A 6
recordings Artur Simon
09 Danse tribale avec chants de femmes Nouba Min 3’19
LP Soudan pays des Nouba
Disques VDE-Gallo VDE 30-294, A1
Recordings Pierre et Eliane Dubois
10 Danse des Hommes avec comes et hochet, 4’21
Nouba Min
LP Soudan pays des Nouba
Disques VDE-Gallo VDE 30-294, A3
Recordings Pierre et Eliane Dubois
11 Tambours et chants rituels de la danse de Nyertoun. 2’57
Nouba Kau
LP Soudan pays des Nouba
Disques VDE-Gallo VDE 30-294, A5
Recordings Pierre et Eliane Dubois
12 Chants de jeunes filles lors de rejouissances a Abiey. 2’41
Dinka
LP Soudan pays des Nouba
Disques VDE-Gallo VDE 30-294, A6
Recordings Pierre et Eliane Dubois
13 Chants des hommes à Delami. 1’36
Nomades Arabes Chalabla
LP Soudan pays des Nouba
Disques VDE-Gallo VDE 30-294, B2
Recordings Pierre et Eliane Dubois
14 Musiques au son de waza trompes en fruits séchés. 1’23
Noir arabes du Sud-Kordofan
LP Soudan pays des Nouba
Disques VDE-Gallo VDE 30-294, B4
Recordings Pierre et Eliane Dubois
15 Waza musik 4’21
Comp: Dandale
MC Musik in Afrika
Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, MC 2 A 48
recorded Artur Simon
16 Ceremonial dance-songs 8’12
CD Sudan Music of The Blue Nile Province the Ingessana and Berta tribes
Auvidis D 8073, tr 1
UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World. An Anthology of African Music.
recorded Robert Gottlieb
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