Field recordings in Katyavala, Angola<a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-aldeia-volume-1">Listen volume 1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-aldeia-volume-2">Listen volume 2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-aldeia-volume-3">Listen volume 3</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-aldeia-volume-4">Listen volume 4</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-aldeia-volume-5">Listen volume 5</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-aldeia-volume-6">Listen volume 6</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

Katyavala Village - Field recordings

Field recordings from the reception for Katyavala<a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-recep-o-volume-1">Listen volume 1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-recep-o-volume-2">Listen volume 2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-recep-o-volume-3">Listen volume 3</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-recep-o-volume-4">Listen volume 4</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-recep-o-volume-5">Listen volume 5</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-recep-o-volume-6">Listen volume 6</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/katyavala-recep-o-volume-7">Listen volume 7</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

Katyavala Reception - Field Recordings

Field recordings from Huambo Province, Angola<a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/huambo-volume-1">Listen Volume 1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/huambo-volume-2">Listen Volume 2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/huambo-volume-3">Listen Volume 3</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/huambo-volume-4">Listen Volume 4</a>

Huambo - Field recordings 

We recorded sessions of the bombolom, a percussion instrument made from a large, hollowed-out horizontal tree trunk (about 1 meter in length and 50 cm in diameter), filled with flinders and struck with two sticks. It is used as a communication tool, somewhat similar to church bells in Europe.However, unlike its West African counterpart, the balafon, it cannot be used to convey complex messages. Instead, it serves as a messenger of urgency or a call for a community gathering.As we were told, whatever you are doing, you must stop and go to the meeting place upon hearing its signal—whether it announces an emergency, a celebration, or a community assembly. We encountered the bombolom on almost every island we visited, in various sizes.<a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/uno-aldeia-de-cabuno">Listen to recording</a>

Uno - Aldeia de Cabuno

Field recording conducted in August 2023.<a href="https://marimbaworld.bandcamp.com/album/bismas-das-ac-cias-angola">Listen to the recording</a>

Bismas das Acácias

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