Nobuntu - Obabes Bembube (2018)
BAND/ARTIST: Nobuntu
- Title: Obabes Bembube
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: 10th District Music
- Genre: World; African Music
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 41:34
- Total Size: 268 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country but in Nobuntu it may have found its waves—warm, rolling a cappella tides that wash over the soul. Nobuntu means “Mothers of Compassion” and Obabes beMbube (Women of Mbube) is the third—and perhaps defining—album by the female ensemble from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second city. Their two previous records fused Afro-jazz, soul, gospel and folk, some songs featuring voice only, some backed by traditional instruments. This time they are all mbube—the tight a cappella harmony style that traces its origins to South African singer-composer Solomon Linda, whose 1939 song Mbube (later popularized as The Lion Sleeps Tonight) became the foundation of a movement. Though in recent years women have become part of South Africa’s a cappella scene, Nobuntu marks the first female surge onto Zimbabwe’s male-dominated mbube landscape. The five women give a distinctly feminine turn to the genre, honoring nature, work, civic engagement, faith and the transformative capacity of music, singing in Ndebele, widely spoken in their country’s south and west. The album’s call-and-response title track is Nobuntu’s story: Insisting that a reluctant DJ play a song by a women’s group (video 1). Asambeni (Let’s Go) celebrates life and culture with the vibrant din of children’s voices and drums flowing into a soothing cadence (video 2). Music’s healing power courses through Cula (Sing), offering a prescription for sadness—or happiness (video 3). Ostensibly a folk tale about a frog, Nobuntu Click Song (video 4) highlights the characteristic sounds that Ndebele shares with sister languages like Zulu (in which Solomon Linda sang) and Xhosa (language of Miriam Makeba’s original Click Song). The women of Nobuntu may not have brought the ocean to their inland country but they are surfing the airwaves and digital channels and taking Zimbabwe’s music to a higher plain. (10thDistrict Music)
Nobuntu
Thandeka Moyo: Soprano/first tenor
Zanele Manhenga, aka Uzah: Soprano/alto
Joyline Sibanda: Alto/tenor
Heather Dube: Alto/tenor/bass, percussion
Duduzile Sibanda: Tenor/baritone/bass
Dumisani Ramadu Moyo: Producer
Mehlulu Dube & Dumisani Ramadu Moyo: Guest musicians (percussion)
Tracklist:
01. Nobuntu - Cula (3:14)
02. Nobuntu - Ilanga (3:16)
03. Nobuntu - Umusa (3:03)
04. Nobuntu - Uyangiphoxa (2:41)
05. Nobuntu - Hossana (2:35)
06. Nobuntu - Nobuntu Click Song (3:24)
07. Nobuntu - Amazing Grace (4:07)
08. Nobuntu - Asambeni (2:46)
09. Nobuntu - Obabes Bembube (3:33)
10. Nobuntu - Umalusi (3:30)
11. Nobuntu - Avumile (5:42)
12. Nobuntu - Silele (3:44)
Nobuntu
Thandeka Moyo: Soprano/first tenor
Zanele Manhenga, aka Uzah: Soprano/alto
Joyline Sibanda: Alto/tenor
Heather Dube: Alto/tenor/bass, percussion
Duduzile Sibanda: Tenor/baritone/bass
Dumisani Ramadu Moyo: Producer
Mehlulu Dube & Dumisani Ramadu Moyo: Guest musicians (percussion)
Tracklist:
01. Nobuntu - Cula (3:14)
02. Nobuntu - Ilanga (3:16)
03. Nobuntu - Umusa (3:03)
04. Nobuntu - Uyangiphoxa (2:41)
05. Nobuntu - Hossana (2:35)
06. Nobuntu - Nobuntu Click Song (3:24)
07. Nobuntu - Amazing Grace (4:07)
08. Nobuntu - Asambeni (2:46)
09. Nobuntu - Obabes Bembube (3:33)
10. Nobuntu - Umalusi (3:30)
11. Nobuntu - Avumile (5:42)
12. Nobuntu - Silele (3:44)
Year 2018 | World | FLAC / APE
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