"Sister Betina" by Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit

Song: Sister Betina
Artist: Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit
Album: Very Best Mixtape (2008)
Lyrics that resound: 🎶tibidibidibi doba in the meantime Hibiri🎶 Commentary: One of those that I can't believe didn't make it on here when I posted regularly and was spinning The Very Best like it was going out of style. "Sister Betina" popped into my head today, but they had two solid albums in a row! "Dinosaur on the Ark," "Tengazako," "Kadja Manja" -- all good times (especially if you know the originals from the 00s). I try to sing along (poorly) in Chichewa with some of the irresistible tunes.

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"Ndamutemba nyanga" by Ganizani Nyirenda

Song: Ndamutemba nyanga
Artist: Ganizani Nyirenda
Recorded in: (1950)
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Commentary: Ohhhhhh shooot. Just found another ethnomusicological online archive. Feels like college. I just love a lot of folk musical traditions. Let me introduce you all to the South African Music Archive Project. Ganizani Nyirenda is apparently a Chewa man singing and rocking out on the thumb piano here. Looks like he recorded this in Nyanja (language) in what is now Malawi (then Nyasaland). More info here. What a bop.

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