Your results for mbira
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
This worldwide cultural phenomenon, a 1997 Grammy winner, co-produced by Ry Cooder, resurrected the forgotten stars of pre-revolutionary Cuba, including Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, and Compay Segundo. The New York Times praised its “evocation of a vanished glittering world of sensual ballroom dancing.”
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Teresa Sterne
A Portrait
This two-disc set celebrates Sterne’s legacy as pianist, producer, and Nonesuch Records’ first creative director. Included along with her concert performances are excerpts of work by composers William Bolcom and George Crumb, plus samples from the groundbreaking Explorer Series she launched.
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Kronos Quartet
Pieces of Africa
This “potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism, and European forms by eight black, brown, and white African composers,” as Time described it, became a cross-cultural and commercial landmark: the first album to top both the classical and world music Billboard charts.
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Glenn Kotche
Mobile
Wilco drummer Kotche employs a wide range of percussive instruments—vibraphone, kalimba, mbira, drum kit, and more—on this solo set, which includes variation on Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. MOJO calls it “ambitious, accessible, and beautifully played.”
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Explorer Series: Africa
Zimbabwe: The Soul of Mbira / Traditions of the Shona People
The first of producer Paul Berliner’s two volumes of recordings of the mbira (a gourd-resonating thumb piano and a core instrument in Shona culture), this album, from 1973, features music for entertainment, meditation, and religious and ceremonial occasions.
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Explorer Series: Africa
Zimbabwe: The African Mbira / Music of the Shona People
The mbira—a gourd-resonating thumb piano—is a core instrument in Shona culture first heard by many in the West on this 1971 recording, which features the playing and singing of the late Dumisani Abraham Maraire, later heard on Kronos Quartet’s groundbreaking Pieces of Africa.
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Explorer Series: Africa
Zimbabwe: Shona Mbira Music
The second of producer Paul Berliner’s two volumes of recordings of the mbira (a gourd-resonating thumb piano and a core instrument in Shona culture), this album, from 1977, features the mbira dzavadzimu, one of the five major forms of the instrument, performed in ensemble by one of the country’s preeminent groups, including soloist Hakurotwi Mude.
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Explorer Series: South Pacific
The Nonesuch Explorer series is “the series that introduced countless listeners to music from afar," says the New York Times, "opening up the delights of world music by mingling the scholarly and the sensuous ... The albums, recorded from the ‘60s to the ‘80s, have held up magnificently.”
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Explorer Series: Latin America
The Nonesuch Explorer series is “the series that introduced countless listeners to music from afar," says the New York Times, "opening up the delights of world music by mingling the scholarly and the sensuous ... The albums, recorded from the ‘60s to the ‘80s, have held up magnificently.”
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Explorer Series: Indonesia
The Nonesuch Explorer series is “the series that introduced countless listeners to music from afar," says the New York Times, "opening up the delights of world music by mingling the scholarly and the sensuous ... The albums, recorded from the ‘60s to the ‘80s, have held up magnificently.”