{"id":152318,"date":"2025-09-23T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=152318"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:26:40","slug":"musical-belongings-vi","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/concert\/musical-belongings-vi-152318\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Belongings VI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With its project WAGOGO DRUMS: TANZANIA, lautten compagney BERLIN explores the possibilities of music beyond the colonial canon, which continues unquestioned in blanket terms such as \u201cAfrican music.\u201d The techniques of so-called \u201cearly music\u201d from Europe show parallels to West African playing practices, which can be seen in techniques such as ostinato\/riff, call and response, and hoketus\/interlocking. The project explores common sources and differences in a week-long workshop and two concerts at the Humboldt Forum. The focus is on two musical traditions: the music of the Wagogo people from Dodoma, Tanzania, with their advanced vocal and percussion culture, meets dances from the European Renaissance, especially from those countries that were colonial powers in what is now Tanzania (Portugal, Great Britain, and Germany).<\/p>\n

Among the musicians who keep the rich heritage of the WAGOGO alive is the famous Zawose family. HUKWE ZAWOSE (1940-2003) was Tanzania’s most important traditional musician of the 20th century and the founding father of an entire musical dynasty. His daughter PENDO and granddaughter LEAH perform internationally as THE ZAWOSE QUEENS, cultivating the elaborate polyrhythmic overtone singing as well as playing the ilimba (lamellophone) and ngoma drums. In a different but no less exciting way, Hukwe’s son SINAUBI ZAWOSE, born in 1995, is also continuing the family traditions. He is a master of the zeze, a fourteen-stringed bowl lute, and transforms the traditional music of his culture into the present. He is accompanied by LUCAS UBI ZAWOSE (ilimba, chilimba, chizeze) and BAHATI ZAWOSE (percussion).<\/p>\n

What does it sound like when a Wagogo lute enters into conversation with a 16th-century European theorbo (bowed lute)? And how can the polyrhythmic dances of the Wagogo be fused with Renaissance dances? Such sound experiments can be expected at this edition of MUSICAL BELONGINGS at the Humboldt Forum.<\/p>\n

The Zawose\u00a0Queens, Pendo Zawose<\/strong>\u00a0– Obertongesang,\u00a0Ilimba (Lammelophon), Ngoma Drums<\/p>\n

The Zawose Queens, Leah Zawose<\/strong>\u00a0– Obertongesang,\u00a0Ilimba (Lammelophon), Ngoma Drums<\/p>\n

Sinaubi Zawose<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Zeze (Schalenspie\u00dflaute)<\/p>\n

Lucas Ubi Zawose<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Ilimba\u00a0(Lammelophon), Chilimba, Chizeze<\/p>\n

Bahati Zawose<\/strong>\u00a0– Percussion<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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