Dangurangu: Klaus-Peter Brenner plays mbira

[@zhanjeudhotichareva6507]

THANK YOU FOR EMBRACING OUR SHONA CULTURE

[@thembiraoracle1134]

Ndugu, More will appreciate and embrace as the past becomes the future again. Maitebasa.

[@XxDerpyBeaux]

When I heard this the world was at peace

[@yangzhou2074]

beautiful

[@catherinegabster]

Mad skills, Dr. Kalus-Peter Brenner. Lovely music.

[@mbirajoy5039]

Thank you! you have truly illuminated the elusive groove of this song.

[@thelmachapman9379]

Lovely, thanks for sharing:-)

[@itsjemmabond]

I remember hearing this instrument playing during the closing credits of the movie Consequences

[@KingSlimjeezy]

interesting...

[@bigbomb5904]

wow, this is cool. I found out about this instrument from looking for playable games on google doodle. very smoothing. I am in love with this. it's like it is a anxiety reliever.

[@thelmachapman9379]

Are you playing the part of the Kushaura or Kitsinyera?

[@Strravigor]

Very interesting version thank You !

[@isit.1067]

Touched.

[@graphene1487]

Hypnotic

[@RubeeDtimebot000]

Very nice!!

[@dilonycalvin121]

Wow brilliant

[@RwakaendanaMambo]

Beautiful instrument. Who made it? What tuning is it?

[@UnigoettingenDeVideos]

Thanks for your questions. Please take a look at the replies underneath Jeff Brahe’s and Tafara Simon’s comments. They should tell you everything you need to know. We hope this helps.

[@tafarasimon4842]

This is really nice. What tuning did you use for your mbira?

[@UnigoettingenDeVideos]

Thanks for asking, here the answer by Klaus-Peter Brenner: As I wrote in the description, the tuning of the mbira I used in this video is ‘magandanga’ (also known as ‘mavembe’). It is the same tuning that my teacher and research partner Ephat Mujuru used on the “Dangurangu” track of his 1981 debut album “The Spirit of the People”: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKjGYq1pepZ8hq8

[@andreacounterman3178]

I love it😌💞🦋

[@mbiraside]

Good job

[@darwino3o538]

In case any of you didn't know mbira is pronounced em-bee-rah if you're from America!

[@Phoonguy]

No no lol the no Em about it it is MBIRA the E does not come into it . Most europeans cant say it but a minority can. Here is a guide the word combination remove co and nation that's how its pronounced

[@darwino3o538]

@@Phoonguy Ok

[@tarirai]

@@Phoonguy I speak Chishona as a first language and I totally agree. It always sounds odd when it pronounced with the 'en' and when spelt, it then gets referred to as 'an' which is not correct to a Shona speaker. It should just be a mbira.

[@Phoonguy]

@@tarirai 100 percent, it's like the footballer I hear many english people say Embape , but its actually Mbape , the irony is many dont want to be corrected , lol I wont even start on how they say my name lol so I cut it and that's it, dont have time to be teaching people my name pronunciation, then they try associate it with an english word , frustrating is not putting it mildly 🤣🤣🤣

[@jeffbrahe6525]

Thanks for sharing. I was looking for a refresher on this song with variations similar to what I used to play years ago, and this was perfect for that! As a very experienced mbira player myself, I'd like to offer a couple suggestions. I hope this doesn't come across as disrespectful, I just always want mbira music to be represented as well as possible, especially by westerners and in academia. First, your instrument looks and sounds very new, like it hasn't been played enough to be broken in. It needs to be played hard for many more hours, until the sound of the keys mellow out a bit, and more beautiful overtones will start to color the tone of every key. It will also become more resonant as you tune and re-tune the notes that need it, and they settle in more. Also, is you deze missing its bottlecaps? Majaka are so important for mbira's tone. Second, do you have a good hosho player nearby? Your playing is very melodic, and you obviously know your way around the instrument, but the rhythm and groove don't sound very authentic. You need to accent certain notes and syncopations more to get the real feel of this music. Playing with a good hosho player will also help you keep a steadier tempo even on your own, and there's a certain swing or "galloping" rhythm that most Zimbabweans play with that you can learn by matching the hosho's swish. Again, I'm not trying to degrade what your doing. It's good! But if you as a westerner actually want to play mbira, you need to strive for "great" and accept nothing less from yourself.

[@UnigoettingenDeVideos]

Thanks for your comment and suggestions. Concerning the mbira used in this video: This specimen belongs to a pair made by Fradreck Mujuru in 1993, shortly before I visited him in his workshop in Glen Norah A/Harare. I retuned it from 'regular' to 'magandanga' tuning and have played it continuously ever since - for 28 years now. The somewhat flat sound quality of the video is probably due to the fact that it was taken with a mobile phone. The orginal sound of this mbira is full, sweet and ringing with quite a bit of sustain, the on-built wire-bar type of buzzer adding a delicate restrained sizzle. - I look greatly forward to finding your expert rendition of “Dangurangu” on KZbin one day. In the meantime, I will keep on listening to masters such as Forward Kwenda: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4K7Z4VohcqWq6M and Gift Mzarabani & Ronald 'Njenge' Musekiwa: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJrNonp9hMhohtE

[@RubeeDtimebot000]

​@@UnigoettingenDeVideos ...as a 'western non Shona' Mbira player myself , I have found to be best led and advised by the very ancestors who guided me to become a player in the first place! it is a very personal relationship , and doesn't need to show off, but loves to share to a welcoming listener! The 'politics' of opinions by 'experienced players' can be so cumbersome as to drown out the enthusiasm of those of us who just want to play as we are guided! Ephat Mujuru once said to me 'dont worry about the rhythm, just get the notes in the right places ". it's a good thing today we have so many people on line sharing what is proper!...✨ And your playing of this piece is obviously quite eloquent as is!

[@timothychinyadza2945]

I respect your prowess at the instrument. You could come back to Zimbabwe to teach us how to do it better than we now do it in our biras

[@lucasprogramadorfire8745]

Quem veio aqui pelo google ? Eu vim !!! Que som lindo...

[@jaysonstephens4976]

only here because google is celebrating this instrument

[@jaysonstephens4976]

@@CrankCase08 lol good catch, minor lapse

[@gabriellaeszterbauerne537]

Sosem láttam-hallottam ilyen hangszert..... nekem tetszik! Úgy vélem, érdemes lenni jobban megismertetni...

[@alphakinikini3740]

Comming from Africa

[@unuakhe]

I came here after playing the google doodle. It seems surprising how that thing produces such harmonic melodies.

[@jeffbrahe6525]

It's an amazingly advanced style of music, and an elegant and ingenious instrument designed to play it. I remember studying classical music and hearing professors go on and on about "motivic unity" "thematic development" etc. as evidence of European composers' unique genius. Academia is always pointing to Europe as the source of all advancements in music, but in Africa there are forms of sacred folk music like this that have all the same signs of genius, that have been growing for countless generations without ever even writing the songs down. Truly mindblowing.

[@unuakhe]

@@jeffbrahe6525 Very true

[@itsjemmabond]

Google Doodle anyone?

[@gennabrown8066]

Me.

[@fourthgirl]

I've never seen a more beautiful Doodle! I can't stop playing!

[@cathyyang5898]

Great! Waiting for the next time!

[@jeffsparks8635]

Thanks man!.......Lp

[@nhapitapi10]

Nicely done!

[@Compositae]

Great recording Klaus-Peter! (Compositae = Marcel van Dijk)

[@stimelambombela8680]

You are a genius.

[@recallchannel3258]

No No ..that is not Dangu rangu ....no living person can play dangu rangu correctly. Even Zimbabweans can't do it they can only try

[@edelinekwandayi7571]

Oddly enough that's very true. It is difficult to even learn it

[@MrGopaltube]

nice

[@ineffable0ortcloud]

!!!

[@kwocci3049]

noice.

[@caiokleiner1275]

That's look like a spoon hitting. 🤣

[@timurlink9332]

Trashy

[@elizabethhayes9659]

There must be a collective name for the instruments (mbira, banjo, bagpipes, etc.) that fail to produce music.

[@robblaettler4589]

Try turning the sound up, you’ll hear it.

[@jeffbrahe6525]

What kind of stupid comment is that? Apparently you don't know what music is?

[@razakza]

There must really be a name for the people who are "unable" to hear music.