New old Kwela

[s1m0n]

Jack Lerole - Pennywhistle Classics of South Africa



1. A Swingin Safari 3:33 Jack Lerole
2. Phata Phata 3:37 Jack Lerole
3. The Lion Sleeps Tonight 3:42 Jack Lerole
4. Skokiaan 4:26 Jack Lerole
5. Ace Blues 3:13 Jack Lerole
6. Zambesi 2:43 Jack Lerole
7. Special Star 4:37 Jack Lerole
8. Meadowlands 3:56 Jack Lerole
9. Chakuma 3:33 Jack Lerole
10. Happy Trumpeter 3:20 Jack Lerole
11. Penny Whistle 2:45 Jack Lerole
12. Kwela Kong 2:52 Jack Lerole
13. Tom Hark 2:32 Jack Lerole
14. Maribi Party 4:01 Jack Lerole
15. Basutoland 2:22 Jack Lerole
16. Jika Spokes 3:21 Jack Lerole
17. Thembi Thembi 4:20 Jack Lerole
18. Meva 2:09 Jack Lerole
19. Staff Nurse 4:10 Jack Lerole
20. Shova Spokes 2:34 Jack Lerole



Kwela Acappella 1:57 The Pennywhistlers
Ace Blues 2:55 Spokes Mashiyane
In The Name Of Kwela 2:56 Mdudzi Magwaza
Uile Ngwan'a Batho 2:32 Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks
Special Star 5:53 Mango Groove
Bra Ntemi's Kwela 4:13 African Jazz Pioneers
Kwela Celebration 4:45 The Pennywhistlers
Casanova Jump 2:37 Basement Boys
Kwela Africa 3:33 Kwela Tebza With Thembi And Friends
Staff Nurse 4:45 Theelani Ajb
Lemmy's Kwela 3:28 Lemmy "Special" Mabaso
First Stop Dube 2:11 Abia Themba
Pennywhisle 3:19 Mango Groove
Salanjalo 2:29 West Nkosi
Little Lemmy 2:34 Little Lemmy And Big Joe
Ten Tens Tavern 3:25 Big Voice Jack
Something New In Africa 2:33 Solven Whistlers
Kwela Roots 5:12 Kwela Tebza

pw for both is icedog

[brewerpaul]

You tease! Where can we get or at least hear these recordings?

[Denny]

no tease

click the picture

[gregdidge]

I get that the RAR is encryted and needs a password, when I down load the files.

[s1m0n]

I get that the RAR is encryted and needs a password, when I down load the files.

pw for both is icedog

[gregdidge]

Thanks s1m0n.

[Steve Bliven]

Thanks very much for making this available. Interesting stuff....

Best wishes.

Steve

[chris_coreline]

awesome sweet! finally ill be able to play tunes no one else at the session knows

[y-nought]

Many thanks!

[dwilbur3]

Thank you so much. Is this on a c whistle?

[s1m0n]

Thank you so much. Is this on a c whistle?

The usual fifties-era kwela axe was a Hohner Bb whistle, now no longer made, which was sometimes called a 'beebee' for obvious reasons. Reproducing this sound is complicated by the fact that kwela musicians didn't hold the whistle the way we think is standard; they held it on it's side, farther into their mouths and pressed against one cheek. I think; search the chiffboard for 'kwela' or 'dave woodhead' and you'll find a few threads discussing it. According to Woodhead this darkened the sound by about a semi-tone, meaning that a lot of recordings are closer to A than Bb.

[brewerpaul]

I downloaded one of the files and also a new version of WinZip to extract it, but I couldn't get it to work. Any ideas? Anyone have it in a different format eg .zip?

[s1m0n]

I downloaded one of the files and also a new version of WinZip to extract it, but I couldn't get it to work. Any ideas? Anyone have it in a different format eg .zip?

Use winrar, and enter the password 'icedog' at the prompt. I don't think winzip can handle .rar files, although the opposite is possible - winrar can open zipped files.

[manu.bande]

S1m0n,

thanks a lot for these great Kwela tunes, I very much appreciated !

Regards

[Fidget]

Thanks for these. (It has given me another opportunity to fight with the PC).

Downloaded free RAR frog which then was used to unloaded the files to MP3 files.
window media player (XP) don't like them.
Maybe my player is too old, I know the feeling.

My phone likes some of them. Many thanks for these, I like the bounce to a few of these.

EDIT: my son (I bet he thinks I'm a computer duffer!) suggested I download a new player (Winamp) which I did and it likes! sounds good!
Dave..