KAKRABA, SK - SONGS OF PAAPIEYE

LP (12"/10" Album)

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Label: AWESOME TAPES F

Release date: 02/10/2015

Barcode: 0656605561516

Catalog no.: ATFA0000018

Item ID: 420635

SK Kakraba is a master of the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone made of 14 wooden slats strung across calabash gourd resonators. The buzzy rattle emitted with each note comes from the silk walls of spiders' egg sacs stretched across holes in the gourds..

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KAKRABA, SK - SONGS OF PAAPIEYE

SK Kakraba is a master of the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone made of 14 wooden slats strung across calabash gourd resonators. The buzzy rattle emitted with each note comes from the silk walls of spiders' egg sacs stretched across holes in the gourds..

 

 

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