Kazumba, Kizumba?

jose m hurtado

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Aug 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/13/98

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A friend just arrived from Namibia, and brought a tape with
the mellowest kind of dance music, it's called kazumba, or kizumba,
from Angola and Cape Verde.
It is like a very slow merengue type rythm, it really flows to dance it,
not as feverish as salsa or merengue...
does anyone know something about this?

Jose

Yambu1

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Aug 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/13/98

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jose m hurtado <ez04...@mailbox.ucdavis.edu> wrote:

>...the mellowest kind of dance music, it's called kazumba, or kizumba,

>from Angola and Cape Verde.>
>

I don't know about Kazumba, but check out CD's of the terrific balladere from
Cabo Verde, Cesaria Evora

-Mike Doran

Eoghan

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Aug 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/13/98

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In article <199808131905...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
yam...@aol.com (Yambu1) wrote:

> jose m hurtado <ez04...@mailbox.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
> >...the mellowest kind of dance music, it's called kazumba, or kizumba,
> >from Angola and Cape Verde.>

"Kizumba" which is also spelt "Kijumba", "Kisumba", or "Kixumba" is the
Kikongo and Kimbundu word from which the Brazilian term Samba derives.

Eoghan

Mary Kent

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Aug 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/13/98

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She's a favorite of mine.

MK

In article <199808131905...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
yam...@aol.com (Yambu1) wrote:

> I don't know about Kazumba, but check out CD's of the terrific balladere from
> Cabo Verde, Cesaria Evora
>
> -Mike Doran

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Yambu1

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Aug 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/13/98

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ebal...@sas.upenn.edu (Eoghan) wrote:

>"Kizumba" which is also spelt "Kijumba", "Kisumba", or "Kixumba" is the
>Kikongo and Kimbundu word from which the Brazilian term Samba derives.
>

Is it true that the term means belly-button, as in dancing belly-button to
belly-button?
-Mike Doran

JoseMHurtado

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Aug 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/14/98

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Yambu1 wrote:

> jose m hurtado <ez04...@mailbox.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
> >...the mellowest kind of dance music, it's called kazumba, or kizumba,
> >from Angola and Cape Verde.>
> >

> I don't know about Kazumba, but check out CD's of the terrific balladere from
> Cabo Verde, Cesaria Evora
>
> -Mike Doran

I know Cesaria Evora. Kazomba is almost as mellow, but with a slow merengue
beat, with some distant reggae reminescences.here are some Kazomba names:

Tabanka Djaz -Angola
Female Move - Angola
Graca Eusebio- S Tome
Jorge Dalas - Angola
Kem Boys - Angola
Lura - Cabo Verde
Doctor Gato - Angola
Doka - Angola
Beto Cruz - Angola
Trio Salgado - Cabo Verde
Sol D'Africa - Cabo Verde
Saranho - Angola

check Tabanka Djaz. This is very nice dance music!

Jose

Eoghan

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Aug 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/18/98

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In article <199808132342...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
yam...@aol.com (Yambu1) wrote:

It's actually more suggestive than that...No! Not THAT suggestive! ;-)

Eoghan