Rwanda III - Musique de Danse rec. Jos Gansemans

Rwanda III - Musique de Danse - Dansmuziek
Recordings by Jos Gansemans 1973-1975
Alpha - 5025 - P.1977




Side A


A1a Imbyino - femmes - hora wararaye 3'20
A1b Imbyino - femmes - Kimbagira Nyamaraba 4'28
A2a Imbyino - filles - Amataba 3'12
A2b Imbyino - filles - Mabano 3'54

A3a Chant et danse nuptial 4'00
A4 Urwagitari 3'15



Side B


B1 Ikiniba 3'03
B2 Ikinyemera 3'32
B3 Intore 6'36
B4a Twa - danse Urubyiruko 2'32
B4b Twa - danse Igibuge 4'16
B4c Twa - danse Umuhamilizo 3'00



This is the third and last of the Rwanda series from Tervuren. For a review of all three volumes see previous post. Hope you enjoy. There will be some more LP's coming but may take a little while because they have much more voluminous annotations, each volume comes with a 40-80 pages book. They were all written in Flemish but have translations of the full text into English, French and German so the actual information is divided by four. The congolese volumes are especially worth waiting for in my opinion. Hope you also like these volumes as posting them here means rather a lot of editing work!

Ikinyemera dance.

Ikinimba dance.

Girls singing the Imbyiro.

Dancing Twa women.

Dance of imbyino women.

Poses of intore dancers.

Twa singer.

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Rwanda I - Musique Instrumentale - P.1977

Rwanda I - Musique Instrumentale - Instrumentale Muziek
Recordings and documentation by Jos Gansemans
Alpha - 5023 - P.1977



Side A

A1a Cordophones - Inanga - Ibilunga 5'26
A1b Cordophones - Inanga - Impunga 4'49
A1c Cordophones - Iningiti - Urwagwa 3'36
A1d Cordophones - Umuduli -Segitonganya 2'25
A2 Idiophones - Ikembe - Ye baba 5'00


Side B


B1a Aërophones - umwirongi 3'00
B1b Aërophones - insengo 3'15
B1c Aërophones - amakondera 2'32
B1d Aërophones - ihembe 1'58
B2a Membranophones - ingoma (Rubungo) rythme iguhubu 3'04
B2b Membranophones - ingoma (Rubavu) rythmes imilindi, ikilushya, agasiga 6'52
B2c Membranophones - ingoma (Mibilizi) rythme ikimanuka 3'06


There is so little music available from Ruanda that I feel it is my duty to share these with you! I think this series is, if not a very well kept secret, so at least a very precious and rather hidden gem. The recordings that are very well documented (in both French and Flemish) were made in the seventies and are of very good quality both for musical and audio quality. I am going to post the other two volumes the following days and they make very good listening. Personally I think they make more sense if you listen to them in random order but with the accompanying notes nearby in case you get curious and wonder what is going on. I am very happy to share this with you and if you have any more information about the Tervuren catalogue other than in my previous discographic note I hope you will share it with me. Oh, and don't worry, I won't forget about the South East Asia series, there are many more coming soon...

J. Sebatunzi playing the Inanga Zither.

Ikembe Lamellophon

Audience In Rwandan Hills

Amakondera Horn Orchestra

Umuduli Musicbow

Straight Shepherd Flute

Ingoma Drummers

Iningidi Fiddler

Insengo Ensemble From Nkumba

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Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika - Tervuren

Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika
Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale
1971 Tervuren



Réf. 680301? - Swazimuziek - Recordings by D. Rycroft - No 1 - P.1968
Réf. 680301? - Luba-Shankadi vocale muziek - Rec. Jos Gansemans - No 2 - P.1969
Réf. 680301? - Zulu, Swazi en Xhosa instrumentale en vocale muziek - No 3 - P.1969
Réf. 680301? - De Teda uit Tibesti - instrumentale muziek - No 4 - P.1971
Réf. 6803015 Ankole West Uganda - No 6 - P.1971
Réf. 6803017 Kongo Music - Music of the Mpangu - No 5 - P.1977
Réf. 6803031 Music of the Bafia - Cameroun - No 7 - P.1977
Réf. 6803038 Yaka Music - Zaïre - No 8 - P.1977
Réf. 6803044 Humbi & Handa - Angola - No 9 - P.1977
Réf. 6803054 Musique de Luanda in Zaïre - No 10 - P.1977
Réf. 6803073 Musique de Tchokwe in Zaïre - No 11 - P.1977


Alpha 5023 Rwanda 1 - Musique Instrumentale - P.1977
Alpha 5024 Rwanda 2 - Musique Vocale - P.1977
Alpha 5025 Rwanda 3 - Musique de Danse - P.1977

Thanks for the kind help extended by "whiteink" that now allows us also to know what the first four volumes were. Those I have no copy of, but if someone has them and could supply digital likeness of the audio and photos of the sleeves and labels and accompanying booklets ;-)
I am sure that all Luobaniyans would be overjoyed. I had checked the museum homepages but failed finding the RMCA series. I would be very happy if someone still has more information about any other series like the Alpha Label. But I have not even looked carefully at the Museum homepage yet, so maybe they are right under my nose. I'll let you know. But if you know if there were any publications on LP or cassette either in other own produced series or a continuation on the Alpha label or other label of African field recordings you'll let us know right!

All the volumes listed above (minus the first four!) will be posted here as soon as I find time! Most are almost ready and the vol 1-3 of Rwanda will soon start appearing here. But the volumes 6-11 all include a 50 - 80 pages book with the "liner notes" (actually more like field research reports) in french, flemish german and english and they take considerably longer time to edit. If you can contribute any other recordings from this series and that are not listed here please let me know and I will post them here with your kind help. Or you make them available somewhere we can reach them!