Word: kalimba
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...fellow folk-rocker Zach Condon of Beirut: tasteful sampling from a wide range of musical influences without ever seeming like world-music kitsch. “(a)spera” ends with “While We Have the Sun,” featuring a tingling melody on a kalimba, underlining Mirah’s capacity to make pure prettiness from exotic and unexpected elements. She ends the album on a hopeful note singing, “Sorry about all the sorrows.” It’s a tempered end to an album about the melding of beauty...
President Mobutu has been asked to speak on the subject of peace in Southern Africa because he has been a voice of reason in a region of instability for over twenty years. Muchobekwa Kalimba wa Katana Ambassador of the Republic of Zaire
...from side to side: his eyebrows leap up and down; his hips grind rhythmically; his foot stomps and his facial expressions never stop changing. If he's not accompanying himself with his Mississippi National steel-bodied acoustic guitar, then he'll play the piano or banjo or mandolin of kalimba or maracas or Spirit of '76 Fife. His raspy voice sometimes turns lyrics into a stammer reminiscent of Otis Redding. At other times, words are replaced altogether by suggestive mumbles or a bent guitar note accompanied by a telling smile. And most of the time, his audience can't help...
WAIT A MINIM! It is not often that Broadway is serenaded by the sounds of the mbira, timbila, kalimba and tampura drone. But they are part of this musical revue from South Africa amusing and soothing the ears of theatergoers...
WAIT A MINIM! There are two sets of stars in this musical revue from Johannesburg: a talented octet of young South African satirists, dancers and singers, and the mbira, timbila, kalimba, tampura drone, and other jungle instruments so primitive they are supersophisticated, so ancient they seem avantgarde...