| The album is made entirely from a multitracked mbira and occasional rhythmic accompaniment. |
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| Besides incorporating chimurenga music based on the rhythms of the mbira, Mtukudzi borrows from mpaqanga and jit. |
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| The baseline is a humble, positive uplifting of Shona culture and values, which is why guitars, drums and horns take a back seat to the unassuming little mbira finger piano. |
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| The group will perform music from the new album, United We Stand, a flavoured sound that ranges in style from rumba to classic adaptations of old mbira rhythms. |
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| His music focuses on the social and economic issues that affect the daily lives of ordinary people, and is influenced by the traditional mbira and drumming rhythm of his clan. |
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| A family of keyed instruments played with the thumbs and forefingers, mbira are important for the religious, familial, community, and personal life of the Shona people. |
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| Richard Matimba's keyboards could give the music an international pop gloss or mimic the mbira or the pennywhistle of South African kwela music. |
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| Thus mbira queen Stella Chiweshe has just been given the National Arts Merit Award by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe. |
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| Now played with a percussive technique, the guitars were made to imitate the rippling, interlocking melodies of the mbira specifically, those of the mbira dzavadzimu, the instrument used to summon the Shona ancestral spirits. |
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| The instrument has a crystalline sound that may in turn be reminiscent of the harp, harpsichord, West African kora, Zimbabwean mbira or Persian santur. |
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| Entertainment during dessert will be provided by master mbira player Munjeri. |
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| The krar is a lyre from Africa that to many is better known as the seron or kiganda, and the mbira is better known to many as the sanza, kalimba, likembe, or sanzhi. |
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| A must for international roots fans, the veteran musician plays her own uplifting pieces on the Mbira thumb piano. |
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| Fabio is a master of the traditional 22-key Mbira thumb piano, and his mix of east and north African tribal rhythms is truly mesmerising. |
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| Mbira does not have cough or difficult breathing. |
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| Every band has its rock star, and Tanyaradzwa Gondo was the one for the Mbira Band. |
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| Stella Chiweshe is known as the Queen of Mbira in her native Zimbabwe, although she is also renowned as a singer around the world. |
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| Mbira music is portrayed as a medium for transmitting history and culture. |
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| Mbira Master will perform with Chartwell Dutrio, of Zimbabwe. |
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