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	Bang on a Can :: Library :: Program Notes
		Their voice remains their own, but the words they speak are foreign to them, often in ancient or foreign languages they themselves do not understand.
		In these pieces the voices of three different cultures - Japanese shakuhachi, Balinese ginoman, and East African nyatiti - speak through the clarinet.
		As a rational westerner, I've transcribed and translated, found ways to play them, but as a trance subject-wannabe I leave the interpretation to others.
	www.bangonacan.org /library/program_notes/three_impersonations (104 words)

	allAfrica.com: Kenya: She Came, She Learnt And She Conquered (Page 1 of 2) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This was the memorable performance staged recently at the Homa Bay district stadium by a young woman who, in spite of her mastery of the nyatiti and singing in fluent Dholuo, traces her roots to another continent, another country and another tongue.
		The nyatiti is associated with Benga music, and is played by plucking the eight strings, with the player holding the instrument close to the chest, seating on a low stool with the base firmly to the ground.
		The strums of the nyatiti are usually spiced with the sounds of the oporo (curved horn), which amplifies the mood and heightens the tempo of the music.
	allafrica.com /stories/200702091050.html (661 words)

	Kenya: Killing Her Softly for Playing by Kwamboka Oyaro
		The nyatiti is a 'male' instrument and the protestors argue that it is an insult to men and to Kenyan culture that Omwa Ombara - popularly known as OO - should even think of playing it in public.
		When one plays the nyatiti, it is placed between the thighs and the knees, which then knock in a suggestive way as finger and string strike.
		To avoid sending her audience bolting for the door, she does not play the orutu or nyatiti when she knows there are people from her community in the crowd, leaving the delicate parts to the men in her band.
	www.boloji.com /wfs5/wfs604.htm (1042 words)

	Walmart.com - Music Downloads (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nyatiti (lyre) player Ayub Ogada first rose to fame in 1993 when he was invited to support Peter Gabriel on his extensive two-month tour of Europe.
		Eventually, Ogada became dissatisfied with percussion, and found the perfect instrument for his self-expression in the nyatiti, a versatile instrument easily adapted to both traditional and contemporary songwriting.
		This inspired a thespian career, which also included the role of the Mau Mau leader in The Kitchen Toto, but after arriving in England he was denied the chance of an acting career by the Equity Union's intransigent membership policies, and instead, he sought a future in music once more.
	www.walmart.com /swap/LoadArtistBio.do?artistId=28634 (421 words)

	Luo
		He is the Minister of Roads and Public Works and is widely credited with enabling Mwai Kibaki to win the last presidential election through the support of his Liberal Democratic Party.
		Accompanying the nyatiti lead were songs about society, politics, history and change.
		The guitar (acoustic, later electric) replaced the nyatiti as the string instrument.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/lu/Luo.htm (565 words)

	luo - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Accompanying the nyatiti lead were songs about society, politics, history and change.
		It originated in the 1950s with Luo musicians trying to adapt their traditional tribal dance rhythms to western instruments.
		The guitar (acoustic, later electric) replaced the nyatiti as the string instrument.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Luo (384 words)

	Music and Dance in Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the finer of these was the Nyatiti, similar to the medieval lyre.
		It has a gentle, relaxing sound, and is usually played solo with a single singer, and sometimes accompanied by light percussion or bells.
		Ayub Ogada is a modern master Nyatiti player from Kenya, who has become internationally famous.
	kenya.com /music.html (1161 words)

	DailyOM - Ayub Ogada
		As a child he traveled the U.S. college circuit with his parents and in 1979 founded the African Heritage Band, a group that melded traditional music with Western rock and soul.
		He sings in his native Dholuo tongue of topics traditional and spiritual, and though the words will be unintelligible to most English speakers, their delivery remains heartfelt and moving.
		"Thum Nyatiti," meanwhile, serves as a concise and joyful instrumental showcase.
	www.dailyom.com /articles/3/2007/7811.html (408 words)

	Ink-Stained Wretch in Kenya: Just Me and My Nyatiti
		The nyatiti instrument itself is a somewhat crudely made nylon-stringed thing made of wood and cowhide.
		The nyatiti is played on the knee, while sitting on a low stool, or on the ground.
		Eriko, the Japanese nyatiti player, told me that before she goes home in December she will be inducted into the Luo nyatiti-playing world with a ceremony out near Lake Victoria in western Kenya.
	www.benfsinger.com /2005/11/just-me-and-my-nyatiti.html (694 words)

	Benga - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Luo of Kenya have long played an eight-string lyre called nyatiti, and guitarists from the area sought to imitate the instrument's syncopated melodies.
		In benga, the electric bass guitar is played in a style reminiscent of the nyatiti.
		In 1967, the first major benga band, Shirati Jazz, was formed by Daniel Owino Misiani.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Benga (299 words)

	Ink-Stained Wretch in Kenya: Nyatiti Madness in Luo-Land: part one
		She was joined by a young drunk man, who did an odd but common African dance, dangling his hands down in front of him, haunches in the air and head near the ground, while he hopped around the grass and made suggestive overtures to the woman.
		He sang humorous songs that had the crowd in stitches, and he was joined by a group of elders who sat behind him, who chimed in and repeated certain lines as if they’d been practicing for weeks.
		At some points he threw down the nyatiti, engaging in a kind of repartee with the crowd.
	www.benfsinger.com /2005/11/nyatiti-madness-in-luo-land-part-one.html (2661 words)

	AYUB OGADA
		Ayub alternated between concerts with Taxi Pata Pata, solo concerts where he played his own compositions accompanied by the “nyatiti” (a small harp), and during difficult times playing in the Metro.
		There he was discovered by a DJ, who suggested that he play in theWOMAD Festival in Cornualles, where he left a great impression on Peter Gabriel, who asked him to participate in the “Real World Recording Weeks”,(recording sessions at Real World Studios that mixed musical styles from all over the world).
		He accompanies himself with the "Nyatiti" (small harp), acoustic bass and percussion.
	www.ptwmusic.com /bios/ayubang.htm (285 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		Song is used just once, and then the nyatiti and drums are left as the only sounds that punctuate the speech of muscle, flesh and bone from the troupe of three dancers who prime all their energy to say what poets and dramatists would use verse and dialogue to convey.
		It is a daring and brave undertaking, considering how much value we all attach to the spoken word in communication.
		The sad twanging of the Nyatiti, the beating of the drums together with the stirring exertions of body all work towards establishing the motif of imprisonment and how the human spirit is never beaten even in captivity.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/140599/Features/FN3.html (470 words)

	allAfrica.com: Kenya: Playing Folk Music With a Yen Flair (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Every time Japanese seafarers change the direction of a ship, they shout out the word yosoro to indicate that all is well because the vessel is steady in motion.
		Also starring was Eriko Mokoyama 'Anyango', the Japanese woman who is so adept at playing the nyatiti and speaking Dholuo that one would think she was born and bred in Siaya District, save for her complexion.
		Anyango's nyatiti, anchored by a similar instrument in the hands of Odhiambo Nyamungu, kicks off the joint performance with the song Jaugenya (man from Ugenya).
	allafrica.com /stories/200702160962.html (907 words)

	Papa Bear Records - World Diary - Tony Levin
		Others with whom he collaborates on the CD are: Ayub Ogada - nyatiti and vocal, Brian Yamakoshi - koto, Bendik - tenor sax, Nexus - a five man percussion ensemble, Manu Katche - drums, and Jerry Marotta - drums.
		The title refers to their similar ancestry, to the intertwining musical lines of the piece, and to the photo Tony took of the doudouk and the bass bow.
		The genesis of this piece was simply Ayub showing Tony the tuning of his nyatiti (a lute type instrument from Kenya.) David Botrill, the noted engineer, wisely rolled tape, and put up mikes to catch the musicians' feet stamping.
	www.papabear.com /pbworld.htm (1441 words)

	Em Mana Kuoyo
		Prior to a lot of travel and his eventual settling in England, Ayub Ogada was a member of the Luo tribe from a wedge of northern Kenya pinched between Uganda and Tanzania.
		Ogada's music is based on repetitious patterns plucked on the nyatiti, a stringed instrument reminiscent of the lyre.
		On En Mana Kuoyo (meaning "just sand"), he sings mellifluous, almost hypnotic, and yet ultimately lackadaisical melodies concerning home, his instrument, the weather, and injustice.
	www.gatewayofafrica.com /albums/107.html (112 words)

	トカゲ通信: A REPORT ON THE NYATITI CEREMONY HELD IN HONOUR OF ERIKO MUKOYAMA ON 26/11/2005 FOLLOWING HER SUCCESS ...
		Nyatiti, a music instrument played by the Luos who live in the Western part of Kenya and along the shores of Lake Victoria, is made of wood, skin and special strings.
		But this was not before the whole crowd enjoyed a delicious meal of Ugali, plenty of meat (a bull and a number of chicken were slaughtered and cooked in the traditional way) and a variety of Luo traditional vegetables.
		Because the stomachs were full by two o’clock and the mood of a special ceremony set to crown the first ever female Nyatiti player in the history of Luos, the ceremony begun.
	saba.air-nifty.com /bulkenge/2006/01/a_report_on_the.html (1381 words)

	benga: Afropop Style -- Kenya, East Africa
		Guitar pickers had long mimicked the quick, syncopated melodies of the Luo's eight-string nyatiti lyre.
		Now, as electric benga emerged, the nyatiti's push-and-pull character also influenced prominent electric bass lines.
		Meanwhile, neo-traditional groups, notably Kapere Jazz Band, formed in 1986, and nyatiti player Ogwang Lelo Okoth are reviving the Luo roots of benga by returning to the one-string orutu fiddle, the nyatiti lyre, as well as Fanta bottle and other percussion.
	www.afropop.org /explore/style_info/ID/4/benga (464 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Kenya: Journey through a rhythm nation
		There's always a significance to a song or dance or even to a certain instrument that is being played.
		The nyatiti is an eight string Luo instrument made out of wood and goat or antelope skin.
		A nyatiti player is usually called upon to perform either at weddings or funerals.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/433896.stm (1156 words)

	Suzzana Owiyo (The Leopard Man's African Music Guide)
		As a young girl, she was inspired by her grandfather who was a popular nyatiti (lyre of the Luo people of Kenya) player in his time.
		Later she replaced the nyatiti with a box guitar.
		Suzzana honed her singing skills and won several accolades in the national music festivals while still at secondary school.
	www.leopardmannen.no /o/owiyo.suzzana.asp?lang=gb (574 words)

	AYUB OGADA
		Ayub alternated between concerts with Taxi Pata Pata, solo concerts where he played his own compositions accompanied by the “nyatiti” (a small harp), and during difficult times playing in the Metro.
		There he was discovered by a DJ, who suggested that he play in theWOMAD Festival in Cornualles, where he left a great impression on Peter Gabriel, who asked him to participate in the “Real World Recording Weeks”,(recording sessions at Real World Studios that mixed musical styles from all over the world).
		He accompanies himself with the "Nyatiti" (small harp), acoustic bass and percussion.
	personal.redestb.es /ptwmusic/ayubogada.htm (642 words)

	Ayub Ogada
		For the next hour, the articulate and gracious Ayub Ogada performs in front of an audience made up--in great part--of people who had never before heard the sounds of the Kenyan lyre, the nyatiti.
		Beginning each song with a touching and often amusing story about the origins and significance of his compositions to his native Western Kenyan people, the Luo, Ogada holds his audience in complete, rapt attention.
		As soon as you fit a microphone, you've done something [to modify the nyatiti].
	www.rootsworld.com /rw/feature/ogada.html (654 words)

	Kenyan Discography: Local Styles, Current and Past
		This mingling of cultures was evident in his musical productions at Nairobi’s French Cultural Centre in the 1970s; in the renowned African Heritage Band, which he co-founded in 1979; and in his initial entry into the London African music scene with the group Taxi Pata Pata in 1986.
		It is also quite evident today in his approach to his solo music on the nyatiti, a traditional lyre of the Luo people.
		Ayub Ogada begins with Luo tradition: the nyatiti harp, praise songs, indigenous rhythms...
	hometown.aol.com /dpaterson/klocal.htm (1317 words)

	Ayub Ogada \| Estacion Tierra Mondomix \| Musicas del Mundo
		A pesar de haber realizado muchas grabaciones y colaboraciones anteriores, desde el momento en que Peter Gabriel le propuso sumarse al staff de artistas de Realworld, la vida artística de Ayub Ogada dio un giro de 180 grados.
		Tan sólo una semana demandó la grabación de uno de los discos más interesantes y recomendados del prestigioso sello inglés en donde el keniano da muestras de su manejo del nyatiti (una pequeña arpa tradicional del pueblo luo al que pertenece Ogada) y sobre todo, del dominio de su profunda y delicada voz.
		Por entonces, formó parte del grupo Taxi Pata Pata alternando sus actuaciones de la banda con conciertos como solista interpretando sus propias canciones acompañado del nyatiti, muchas veces tocando en el metro de Londres.
	www.estaciontierra.com /artistas/artista.php?id=187 (423 words)

	Black Looks
		Ayub Ogada plays the “nyatiti” which is a string instrument and like the mbira has a metal bit which acts as a resonater giving that kind of ting vibrating sound.
		Another great Kenyan band is Jabila Afrika which is very different to the mellow Ogada with a strong powerful roots jazz mix sound.
		The nyatiti and the mbira, powerful connection which I had not seen before.
	www.blacklooks.org /2006/06/kenyan_bloggers_day.html (888 words)

	Society: Music:Ogada to liven up London poverty concert
		The multi-talented singer, who released his solo albumen En Man Kuoyo (It’s sand) a few years ago, is relatively unknown locally but is a big star in Europe and other parts of the world.
		The singer’s warm, sensual voice creates a close bond with his audiences to espouse social issues while playing the traditional lyre, popularly known as nyatiti.
		Armed with his nyatiti, he went to the UK and played on the streets for money.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/mags/society/articles.php?articleid=23679&date=26/6/2005 (627 words)

	Ayub Ogada - The New Nyatiti
		For the next hour, the articulate and gracious Ayub Ogada performs in front of an audience made up--in great part--of people who had never before heard the sounds of the Kenyan lyre, the nyatiti.
		Beginning each song with a touching and often amusing story about the origins and significance of his compositions to his native Western Kenyan people, the Luo, Ogada holds his audience in complete, rapt attention.
		As soon as you fit a microphone, you've done something [to modify the nyatiti].
	www.eyefortalent.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/artist.articles_detail/artist_id/19/article_id/5.cfm (681 words)

	Mama Africa
		From Kenya, Owiyo was musically inspired by her grandfather, a popular musician of the Luo people.
		From him, she learned to play the nyatiti, an instrument similar to the lyre.
		From the nyatiti, Owiyo progressed to the box guitar.
	www.farfesha.com /pages/mama-africa.htm (412 words)

	The Daily Beacon
		Considering the selection of different instruments -- from koto to nyatiti to doudouk and beyond -- the result is a sonic delight.
		A solo album might be an excuse for another player to show off technique, but Tony resists making his Diary any sort of chopfest.
		On two tracks, Levin has an especially good rapport with Ayub Ogada, with the former's bass providing sharp commentary behind the latter's nyatiti (an 8-stringed lyre instrument).
	dailybeacon.utk.edu /printarticle.php?articleid=21395 (511 words)

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