Africa-Press – Angola. The Marimba project, which aims to rescue the rhythms of the PALOP, recorded, in the last two days, 10 songs and videos of the traditional female dance group Katyavala, from Bailundo municipality, Huambo province.
The initiative, sponsored by the European Union and managed by the Camões Institute, aims to enhance the production of musical rhythms from Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and East Timor, with direct impacts on Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) and Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP).
The coordinator of the Marimba project, Fernando Sousa, informed that, after recording the rhythms, the songs and videos will be mastered and edited, in Luanda, the country’s capital, to be made available, free of charge, on the online platform. from Marimba, social networks and other sites.
He explained that these were field sessions, an important component of the Marimba project, which aims to digitize traditional music and enrich the collections of some national PALOP radio stations.
The field recordings, he added, in addition to involving video, audio and photo recordings, with professional equipment, were marked with bibliographic collections from the Ovimbundu kingdom, fundamentally from the Katyavala group.
Fernando Sousa informed that the 10 songs recorded and filmed are part of the repertoire of the female traditional dance group Katyavala, mainly those that portray its history and the daily life of the Ovimbundu people.
For the person in charge, the aforementioned female group represents and translates the culture of the Bailundo kingdom, with social values that identify the entire Ovimbundu people.
In Angola, he recalled, the Marimba project has the Grupo Rádio Nacional de Angola (RNA) as its main partner, which has made contacts with different groups and traditional areas of the country.
Created in 1983, the female traditional dance group Katyavala, named after the founding king of the then kingdom of Bailundo (Mbalundu), is responsible for preserving the traditional and cultural roots of the Ovimbundu peoples of the Central Plateau of Angola.
The group exhibits various dance styles and traditional music, such as Elisemba, Katita, Onhatcha, Okondonda, Otchisosi, Sawaya and Olundongo, which honor the Bailundo ancestors.
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