CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Music of the former Bandia courts
Recordings, texts and photographs by
Marc Chemillier & Eric de Dampierre
Le Chant du Monde, CNR 2741009 (april 1996)
This record is the first one which is devoted to the music of the Nzakara and Zande people from Central African Republic. It presents recordings which were made from 1965 to 1993. Most of the Nzakara-Zande music instruments are present in this record (drums, xylophones, sanza, bells). But a special section of the record is devoted to the harp, an instrument which played a particular role in the old Nzakara-Zande kindoms. A 126 pages booklet gives the full transcriptions of the song-texts.
| 1 | gitangi | 5'54 |
| 2 | gitangi | 3'16 |
| 3 | gitangi | 2'25 |
| 4 | limanza | 3'31 |
| 5 | ngbàkià | 3'59 |
| 6 | gitangi | 5'48 |
| 7 | limanza | 4'04 |
| 8 | ngbàkià | 5'45 |
| 9 | Motto of the iso bird | 1'11 |
| 10 | Solo songbia | 3'36 |
| 11 | Solo songbia | 2'55 |
| 12 | nakùlungù | 3'31 |
| 13 | kele-gbelé | 4'23 |
| 14 | Bells and pots | 3'06 |
| 15 | Song with bells and pots | 3'36 |
| 16 | Song with mánzá portable xylophones | 4'35 |
| 17 | Xylophone on banana truncks, kponingbo | 3'49 |
| 18 | Xylophone on banana truncks, kponingbo | 3'54 |
TOTAL | 72'54 |