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A long-time best-seller of the MEG-AIMP collection and long out of print, this album of sanza music recorded among the Gbaya people of the Central African Republic by ethnomusicologist Vincent Dehoux was originally released on CD in 1993. It is now being reissued on vinyl and CD to coincide with the exhibition Afrosonica – Soundscapes. It features a selection of ‘songs for thought’: an intimate repertoire conducive to introspection, accompanied by the repetitive, meditative sound of lamellaphones.
 

Tracks
1.    Séam ko mè (‘I love you’) 5’43
2.    Soré ga mo (‘The tree of peace’) 3’09
3.    Bondè ko hé hoyo 1 (‘The sufferings of the orphan’) 3’52
4.    Bondè ko hé hoyo 2 (‘The sufferings of the orphan’) 4’08
5.    Naa-woro [Female given name] 4’00
6.    Naa-koro 1 [Female given name]  6’43
7.    Naa-koro 2 [Female given name] 4’31
8.    Ndio l (‘The eagle’) 5’57
9.    Ndio 2 (‘The eagle’) 4’02

Total duration: 42’07