Dendera, a subgenre of Sungura...

[kavaris]

A couple weeks ago I had brought up Greek music (arabic music, but that was under a diff discussion/topic of threads) And i had said that there was a lot of different traditional Spanish, Italian and Greek related rhythms, dances and songs that I was startin to look into, but that i hadnt yet learned the actual names of

So now if we put that aside, today, i found myself looking for a very specific typve guitar jangle~tropical, almost Caribbean sounding music (that is, those who are familiar with "Under the sea" from the little mermaid). Though the term \*Caribbean would be way off   at least~from what the actual music style is, as you would need to be looking for "African music" genres, either through the terms "Juju" or "Sungura" style music: Dendera specifically had been what lead me to then finding the broader category of Sungura.

Theres a video that gives a little on the history of Sungura -if you search "Sungura Music of Zimbabwe ...", though i dont know if Sungura is a more specific term for an even broader term.

So not only do i hope to show yous somethin new, im basically seeing if any of yous happen to know more about Dendera OR Sungura, or Juju or any of this style of music, and would like to drop some knowledge, like on what its about...

But anyway, heres one of many interpretations of the music (i was lookin for one of the more catchy 'r sounding ones, so it might be a little too bassy, but theres plenty of non-bassy recordings you can find)

*p.s. you might also recognize that term dendera as its the name of an Egyptian temple complex, though im not sure where they got the terms sungura/dendera*

 

Edited Sunday at 08:42 PM by kavaris

[kavaris]

Heres a blindman doin sungura, and you can tell, this is prolly a well known rendition. Alot of times, the songs are so completely diff from eachother. Alot of them dont have vocals, nd instead they are like instrumentals~w/ ppl dancing. So, jus to give you a sense of how broad it is—I jus happened to find lyric

 

Edited Sunday at 08:54 PM by kavaris