SAKAKI MANGO & LIMBA TRAIN SOUND SYSTEM Sakaki Mango studied the Swahili language at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, where he also began his research on the music of Tanzania. He traveled to the African continent to receive direct training from the late Hukwe Ubi Zawose (then the lead limba player of the Tanzanian National Theatre) on the limba, and from Galikai Tillicoti on the mbira. In addition to the limba and mbira, Sakaki Mango also plays the electric likimbe, a Congolese amplified lamellaphone. Sakaki has done much to popularize the traditional music of Africa in Japan through concerts and workshops. He found ways to plug the instrument through amplifiers and suitably co-starred with Konono No 1(DRC) at their international shows during 2006. With his 3rd album "LIMBA ROCK" released in July 2008, he has broken the "healing" image of those instruments, bringing them back to their role of trance and dance. The vibrating tension of Swahili sound, diffused in an electrical distortion, played by minimal phrases repeated and rolled like a spiral staircase, makes feel high, sometimes loose consciousness. Its energetic melodies, tinted with sounds from Dar es Salaam, Harare, Kinshasa or Maputo, sung in a mixture of Swahili language and Kyushu island dialect, are, as Mango's itinerary, a powerful entanglement of musical traditions and modernisms overlapping and fitting together. His albums "LIMBA TRAIN" and "LIMBA ROCK" were chosen among the best world music albums <b>...</b>
SAKAKI
MANGO
サカキ
マンゴー
GURUGURU
グルグルLIMBA
TRAIN
SOUND
SYSTEM
THUMB
PIANO
親指ピアノ
KALIMBA
カリンバ
MBIRA
ムビラ
ンビラ
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