{"id":542,"date":"2009-03-14T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:20:12","slug":"matamai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Matamai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We learned Mbirimo from Matamai. This is a Kore Kore song. The Kore Kore are part of the Shona tribe. Mbirimo is about rich people, rich people who look down on others. I will add the meaning of the words and meaning later.<\/p>\n<p>The rhythm particularly of the kutsinhira is very tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Matamai is what we call Newton Gwara. He is known internationally.\u00a0 See the photo below of Kaia Wong, Matamai, and Denver playing late at night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=543\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-543\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-543  aligncenter\" title=\"kaia-matamai-denver\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/kaia-matamai-denver.jpg\" alt=\"kaia-matamai-denver\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was able to buy an mbira made by Matamai while in Zimbabwe.\u00a0 It is a donganda which means that the right hand is in the same range as the left hand.\u00a0 When you play a song particularly one that alternates right and left hands, the sound is one of playing both kushaura and kutsinhira.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=544\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-544\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-544  aligncenter\" title=\"matamai-donganda-mbira\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/matamai-donganda-mbira.jpg\" alt=\"matamai-donganda-mbira\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learned Mbirimo from Matamai. This is a Kore Kore song. The Kore Kore are part of the Shona tribe. Mbirimo is about rich people, rich people who look down on others. I will add the meaning of the words and meaning later. The rhythm particularly of the kutsinhira is very tricky. Matamai is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}