played for the mountain spirits at the reservoir -8/19/14 .. raw & from the heart

Bangiza

Nhamo yamakandipa

Mucheka

Mahororo Spirit

MahororoDaFunk

Taireva (I told you so!)

song traditional, lyrics by Ambuya Beauler Dyoko

Love Causes Trouble (trad.)

Nhemamusasa (Baba Munyaradzi)

Chapungu Mbira performs "Taireva" at the Berkshire Drum & Percussion Expo, 4/2/11

"Taireva" LIVE

Karinga Hore

Taireva

imagine my delight when a bird decided to joyously accompany me in some Mahororo! .. 

Mahororo Birdsong

Demo clip of an mbira classic- by Satya Ferreira and Nora Balaban

CHAPUNGU MBIRA ~*~ SATYA FERREIRA-Founder/Leader of Chapungu Mbira       
...Member of Kusika (African Dance & Drumming troupe) 2000-Present ..Member of The Zambezi Marimba Band 2001-2010 .As a senior member of both Kusika and The Zambezi Marimba Band, Satya has performed with several master musicians, most notably Zimbabwean mbira masters Cosmas Magaya, Ambuya Beauler Dyoko, and Forward Kwenda; U.S. mbira masters Chris Berry and Erica Azim; master drummers Obo Addy, Bernard Woma, and Sulley Imoro from Ghana; Congolese dance, drumming and kalimba master, Titos Sompa; Gyil masters (the late)Kakraba Lobi and Bernard Woma from Ghana; percussionist/vocal performer Ahmondylla Best; master musicians Lourindo Jossias Cuna and Abel "Belito" Fumo of the Mozambique National Dance Company; Obo Addy's Okropong; percussionist/musical director of Kusika, Bashir Shakur; and the late composer/percussionist/musical director of Kusika, Kweyao Agyapon.... For over a decade, Satya has had the good fortune to study intensively with the above mentioned masters, as well as many others, including Zimbabwean mbira masters Fradreck, Fungai, and Samuel Mujuru; and Cuban master percussionist/composer Francisco Mora Catlett . 

CHAPUNGU MBIRA is but an extention of Satya's extensive study of World Music, Culture and Healing.

INFLUENCES: 
Zimbabwean mbira masters Cosmas Magaya, Ambuya Beauler Dyoko, and Forward Kwenda; U.S. mbira masters Chris Berry and Erica Azim. Satya's teachers also include Zimbabwean mbira masters Fradreck, Fungai, and Samuel Mujuru.

SOUNDS LIKE: 
Mbira, Hosho, Dezes...... rain, water, soul musings...

MANY THANKS to ....the Ancestral Spirits...:Forward Kwenda.....Cosmas Magaya.....Ambuya Beauler Dyoko...
 Sri Swami Satchidananda, Satya's spiritual master...also to Williams College, and its performing ensembles, Kusika and the Zambezi Marimba Band (directors Sandra Burton, Bashir Shakur & Prof. Ernest Brown), where Satya met, performed and studied with her mentors.

KUSIKA & THE ZAMBEZI MARIMBA BAND..Kusika, an African Dance & Drumming Ensemble is dedicated to performing music, dance, and storytelling from Africa and the African Diaspora.The troupe's repertoire includes material from both traditional and contemporary social forms.The Zambezi Marimba Band plays traditional music for the Mbira DzaVadzimu, an ancient ritual instrument played by the Shona people of Zimbabwe, as well as marimba music from Zimbabwe and Ghana. The home performing venue for Kusika and The Zambezi Marimba Band is the '62 Center for Theater and Dance in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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