Michael Blake: Afrikosmos

Album by Antony Gray & Michael Blake

Released 13 April 2023

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Spotted Dikkop and Black Cuckoo
    1:26
  • 2
    Linong tsa Lesiba (Song of the Birds)
    1:09
  • 3
    African Doves
    1:50
  • 4
    if I had Wings
    2:31
  • 5
    Walking Song
    1:53
  • 6
    Stroll to the Spaza Shop
    1:43
  • 7
    Chorale
    2:17
  • 8
    Lyric Piece
    3:45
  • 9
    Call and Response
    1:19
  • 10
    Ntsikana's Bell
    1:47
  • 11
    John Knox Bokwe's Plea for Africa
    1:26
  • 12
    Heaven's Bow
    4:36
  • 13
    iKos'tina
    1:44
  • 14
    Variations on a Flute Tune
    1:24
  • 15
    Emerging Melody
    4:04
  • 16
    Stickfighting Song
    0:53
  • 17
    Herding Song
    1:18
  • 18
    Threshing Song
    1:24
  • 19
    To comfort a child (Lullaby)
    1:25
  • 20
    You are a real rascal
    1:23
  • 21
    Canon at the Octave
    1:14
  • 22
    Wedding Song
    1:10
  • 23
    Night Music
    9:43
  • 24
    Self Delectative Song
    1:27
  • 25
    Latshon'ilanga
    1:41
  • 26
    Song for the Evening
    1:45
  • 27
    Unevensong
    3:28
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Dance in Seakhi Rhythm
    3:21
  • 2
    Chaconne in Mbaqanga Style
    1:40
  • 3
    In Goema Style
    1:07
  • 4
    Tickey-draai
    1:07
  • 5
    Daar kom die Alibama
    1:11
  • 6
    Diary of a Dung Beetle
    3:38
  • 7
    Scents of Childhood 1
    1:33
  • 8
    Scents of Childhood 2
    1:52
  • 9
    Scents of Childhood 3
    7:37
  • 10
    Interlocking Hands
    1:15
  • 11
    Changing Times with Repeating Patterns
    2:37
  • 12
    Five Finger Patterns
    1:29
  • 13
    Weave
    2:18
  • 14
    Distant Cowbells
    2:38
  • 15
    Lusikisiki
    1:34
  • 16
    Giyani
    4:39
  • 17
    There cried a hippo
    3:17
  • 18
    Reedpipe Dance
    2:40
  • 19
    Four-note Patterns
    3:29
  • 20
    Slow Dance
    1:41
  • 21
    Lebombo Bone
    2:00
  • 22
    Broken Line
    6:05
  • CD 3
  • 1
    The music flows jolly as it won't stop forever
    1:39
  • 2
    March
    1:30
  • 3
    Message from the Nduna
    2:06
  • 4
    Ituri Rain Forest
    1:36
  • 5
    Reflection
    3:05
  • 6
    Two Modes Intersecting
    2:15
  • 7
    In the Hexatonic Mode
    0:49
  • 8
    Major-Minor
    1:28
  • 9
    Patterns in a Heptatonic Field
    4:17
  • 10
    Keep left, pass right
    1:22
  • 11
    Geyser on! Hat off!
    1:00
  • 12
    Stay on path
    1:24
  • 13
    The Seven Steps
    1:15
  • 14
    Ostinato with Cross Rhythm
    1:04
  • 15
    Smoke and Mirrors
    1:06
  • 16
    Postcards from South Africa
    1:28
  • 17
    Une sonnerie pour G D
    7:27
  • 18
    High Fives
    3:18
  • 19
    Supermoon
    2:04
  • 20
    Sefapanosaurus
    1:41
  • 21
    Thirds
    1:28
  • 22
    Variations on 4ths and 5ths
    1:38
  • 23
    Fifths
    1:23
  • 24
    Seventh must fall
    3:41
  • 25
    Haiku
    1:57
  • 26
    Freedom Day Variations
    4:26

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