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Formats and Editions
1. Iritingo - Bowl Lyre
2. Ekegogo - Spike Lute
3. Umwere - Closed Transverse Flute
4. Umwere - Closed Transverse Flute
5. Ikere - Open Transverse Flute
6. Ikibiswi - Closed Transverse Flute
7. Women's Wedding Song
8. Men's Beer Drinking Song
9. Men's Beer Drinking Song 1
10. Obokano - Bowl Lyre 1
11. Obokano - Bowl Lyre 1
12. Obokano - Bowl Lyre 1
13. Obokano - Bowl Lyre 1
14. Obokano - Bowl Lyre 1
15. Obokano - Bowl Lyre 1
16. Rirandi and Orogunchara - End-Blown Horn and Side-Blown Trumpet 1
17. Rirandi and Orogunchara - End-Blown Horn and Side-Blown Trumpet 1
18. Rirandi and Orogunchara - End-Blown Horn and Side-Blown Trumpet 1
19. Rirandi and Orogunchara - End-Blown Horn and Side-Blown Trumpet 2
20. Songs Sung During Women's Circumcision Ceremony 2
21. Songs Sung During Women's Circumcision Ceremony
More Info:
Among the Ewe of southeast Ghana, drummers must also be proficient dancers, and dancers are often required to become musicians as well. As evidenced on this recording, Ewe instrumentation is largely percussion-based and includes talking drum, double or single gong, and gourd rattle played in complex, polyrhythmic patterns. Instrumentation varies depending on the nature of the occasion (festival, funeral, etc). Liner notes include further cultural commentary from Seth Ladzekpo, the former drum-and-dance instructor at the Ghana Institute for Art and Culture.
