Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Collection

The "foremost pioneering scholar in African music", Wachsmann made roughly 1,500 unique recordings of indigenous music in Uganda, most of which have never been published before. More.

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• Koyo aye ber ket iker (Koyo, if you made the person a chief?) - Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings

  Koyo aye ber ket iker (Koyo, if you made the person a chief?) - Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings: Item notes : Wachsmann's original recording no.: 54.765. From available documentation: An agoya movement from the Bwola dance.

• Kwanyu cwin ket idero nen gin ma co coro ye wange. Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings

  Kwanyu cwin ket idero nen gin ma co coro ye wange. Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings: Item notes : Wachsmann's original recording no.: 54.672. Item notes : From available documentation: "take the liver, put it in the grainary and let us see what...

• Ekimwomworo. Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings

  Ekimwomworo. Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings: Item notes : Wachsmann's original recording no.: 54.457. From available documentation: A song about catching giraffes: I caught a giraffe and cut off its tail and here it is around my arm....

• Witch doctor's song. Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings

  Witch doctor's song. Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings: Item notes : Wachsmann's original recording no.: 54.540. From available documentation: a witch doctor's song about a man who fell ill and went to various witch doctors who all failed him bu...

• Nikong. Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings

  Nikong. Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Field Recordings: Item notes : Wachsmann's original recording no.: 54.466. From available documentation: A song about white ants, about running around the white ant hill. Performer notes : From available documentation:...