Amampondo - An Image Of Africa - Live In Cape Town DVD

""AMAMPONDO (which means the people of Pondoland in Xhosa) are the biggest name in ethnic African Music in the last 20 years. They toured doing their special brand of energetic singing dancing and acrobatics world-wide but most often in Europe. Notable shows were their UK appearances at the Nelson Mandela Birthday Bash (they were known as Mandela's favourite band) in Wembley stadium their season at the Edinburgh Festival and the WOMAD festival. They played their hand made marimbas and cow hide drums in Paris Stockholm Milan Amsterdam Hamburg and many other... European cities and at home in South Africa they were celebrated as the voice of traditional African music of the 1980's and 90's. In 1992 they released their best seller album called - An Image of Africa. The album continues to sell today. The show that launched this CD was filmed but never edited. In 2006 producer Patrick Lee-Thorp managed to edit the footage and the result is this DVD. It is a fitting document of the group's live act at the height of their creative success. The package includes a short documentary interviewing with the founder members looking back on their career entitled The Amampondo of Langa. Langa is the township in Cape Town where they all still live."" Tracklist: 1. Mamaliye 2. Zimkile Inkomo 3. Wandenza 4. Gumgedle 5. Umtshingo Nentombi 6. Umfana Ndini 7. Rwakanembe 8. Mujiba 9. Skulumayele 10. Umfana Kabawo 11. Tshikombela 12. Qongqothwane 13. Nomabongo 14. Igazi Lemvana 15. Majola 16. Separate film with interview with the band - ' The Amampondo Of Langa' [show more]

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